Donald Trump likes to insult the physical appearance of his political enemies, and he also likes to say mean things and act like he’s not actually saying them. He did both on Tuesday, in reference to Illinois’ Democratic governor, J.B. Pritzker. And he did so during the traditional turkey-pardoning ceremony.
“I don’t talk about people being fat,” Trump said of the Illinois governor. “I refuse to talk about the fact that he’s a fat slob.”
🚨BREAKING: Trump calls Illinois Governor JB Pritzker “a fat slob”:
“I don’t talk about people being fat. I refuse to talk about the fact that he’s a fat slob.”
Trump is a 5th grade bully who apparently…needs a mirror.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) November 25, 2025
Per the New York Post, Trump said in the speech that his speechwriters had drafted a joke about Pritzker, but that “he was too angry to read it after reading about a woman burned on a Chicago train.”
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“The mayor is incompetent and the governor is a big fat slob,” Trump said.
“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. I refuse to talk about the fact that he’s a fat slob… I’d like to lose a few pounds too, by the way. And I’m not going to lose it on Thanksgiving.”
In the same speech, Trump joked that he considered naming the turkeys “Chuck” and “Nancy,” in a shot at his longtime Democratic adversaries Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. But instead, he named them “Gobble” and “Waddle,” and he made an autopen joke about Joe Biden and last year’s pardons.
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. In other words, they could be fat, but they’re still MAHA. They’ve been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to… pic.twitter.com/um286LKbBv
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 25, 2025
Then, he made a deportation joke about the newly freed turkeys.
“My more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight through the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador, and even those birds don’t want to be there,” Trump said in the speech.
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