« Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys, » said Trump.
President Donald Trump pardoned two Thanksgiving turkeys on Tuesday, continuing a strange American tradition that has been going on for decades. And while Trump read a speech that included a line about the turkeys being “MAHA,” the acronym for Make America Healthy Again, the president seemed unconvinced.
Why was Trump skeptical that these birds were aligned with MAHA, the movement championed by the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? The turkeys were fat, just like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, according to Trump.
“Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys. I don’t know if I agree with that. These are MAHA,” said Trump. “In other words, they could be fat, but they’re still MAHA.”
Trump went on to say that the turkeys have been fed various things, though it’s unclear if he read his speech correctly.
“They’ve been fattened on a steady diet of grass… beef to allow the smoothies and all of the other things that they’ve been eating for this occasion,” said Trump.
Trump may have meant “grass-fed beef,” though we can’t be certain. It’s also possible he misread “beef tallow” as “beef to allow.” The rest of Trump’s declaration about “to allow the smoothies” doesn’t make any sense grammatically, so we have to assume the line was supposed to be something like “grass and beef tallow smoothies,” since turkeys don’t typically consume beef.
But who knows? Trump actually needs to wear reading glasses, and his refusal to do so is often blamed on his misreading of words in the teleprompter. Or, in this case, off a sheet of paper in front of him.
“This was a really big occasion, but they’ve eaten every fattening food that you can eat,” Trump continued. “We work like… we wanted to really make them special, and they really are.
