President Donald Trump delivered a brutal jab at Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker in a comedic moment at the White House.
During the annual White House turkey pardoning ceremony on Tuesday, the president took a shot at the Democrat as a “big, fat slob” as he seamlessly went from criticizing soft-on-crime policies to trolling Pritzker over his weight.
“The mayor is incompetent, and the governor is … a big, fat slob,” Trump said at one point in his speech as he also targeted Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. “He ought to invite us and say, ‘Please make Chicago safe.’ We’re gonna lose a great city if we don’t do it quickly.”
“I looked at the various cases, granting mercy, discovering the terrible trauma that everyone’s going through, and I had a little bit of a Pritzker joke,” the president then said as he pivoted to his comic jabs.
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“I had a little bit of a JB Pritzker joke. I was gonna talk about Pritzker and SIZE…I’d NEVER talk about people being fat, I refuse to talk about the fact he’s a FAT SLOB.”
Crowd: *Bursts into laughter*
“I’d like to lose a few pounds… pic.twitter.com/Y18chjlqmn
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 25, 2025
“I was going to talk about Pritzker in size, but when I talk about Pritzker, I get angry because he’s not letting us do the job. So I’m not going to tell my Pritzker joke,” he said with tongue-in-cheek.
“They have a very cute little Pritzker joke — some speechwriter wrote some joke about his weight. But I would never want to talk about his weight. I don’t talk about people being fat,” Trump continued as the crowd broke into laughter.
“I refuse to talk about the fact that he’s a fat slob, I don’t mention it,” he said before he poked fun at himself. “I’d like to lose a few pounds, too, by the way. And I’m not going to lose it on Thanksgiving.”
While Trump entertained with his shot at the Illinois governor, there was no shortage of jokes as he delivered his remarks at the Rose Garden ceremony pardoning this year’s turkeys, Waddle and Gobble.
“I determined that last year’s turkey pardons are totally invalid, as are the pardons of about every other person that was pardoned other than Where’s Hunter,” Trump quipped, referring to the pardons issued by former President Joe Biden using an autopen.
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“I determined that last year’s turkey pardons are totally invalid, as are the pardons of about every other person that was pardoned other than Where’s Hunter.” pic.twitter.com/tZBfHwJKq6
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 25, 2025
Trump sparked more laughter when he shared what he would have liked this year’s turkeys to have been named.
.@POTUS: “The turkeys being pardoned today go by the names Gobble and Waddle. When I first saw their pictures… I was going to call them Chuck and Nancy — but then I realized I wouldn’t be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people.” pic.twitter.com/XuhIbTGUbI
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 25, 2025
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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