President Trump pardons the turkey “Peas” during the annual ceremony at the White House on Nov. 20, 2018, as first lady Melania Trump looks on. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
In an annual Thanksgiving tradition, President Trump has used the power of his office to keep a pair of turkeys off the holiday table.
Trump’s poultry pardon means the two turkeys — a 39-pound bird named Peas and a 41-pounder named Carrots — will get to live the rest of their lives at a Virginia farm. Both were raised on a farm near Huron, South Dakota. First lady Melania Trump joined her husband for the act of mercy carried out during a light-hearted ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.
President George H.W. Bush established the annual turkey pardon tradition in 1989 by sparing a 50-pound bird.
Trump was traveling to his Florida estate later Tuesday to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with family. (AP)
President Trump declares a Thanksgiving turkey named “Peas” pardoned as National Turkey Federation Chairman Jeff Sveen looks on during the 71st presentation and pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkeys in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 2018. (Photo:Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
President Trump speaks next to first lady Melania Trump during the 71st presentation of the National Thanksgiving Turkey in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20, 2018. (Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)
White House senior advisors Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner sit with their children Arabella, Theodore and Joseph Kushner as President Trump participates in the 71st presentation and pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkeys in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 2018. (Photo:Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
President Trump arrives for the annual turkey pardoning ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20, 2018 as first lady Melania Trump looks on. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Ivanka Trump and her children attend President Trump’s pardoning of the turkeys annual ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20, 2018. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
A live turkey is brought into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room before the media at the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
A live turkey is brought into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room before the media at the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
Peas and Carrots, the national Thanksgiving turkey and its alternate, are shown to members of the media during a press conference held by the National Turkey Federation, Nov. 19, 2018, at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Two turkeys from South Dakota get comfortable in their room at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, after their arrival Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Peas and Carrots, the National Thanksgiving Turkey and its alternate, walk in their hotel room at the Willard InterContinental Hotel after being introduced to members of the media during a press conference held by the National Turkey Federation Nov. 19, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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