The pardoned turkey symbolizes the President's holiday blessing to the nation, which is a yearly tradition on Thanksgiving Day in the United States. On this day, the National Turkey Federation will send a turkey to the White House to be pardoned by the President himself, and the turkey will be spared from being killed by humans, and then sent to the zoo to be raised until it dies a natural death.

What is the meaning of the pardoned turkey

The mention of Thanksgiving, will think of a food, that is, the turkey, many Western countries in Thanksgiving, the table will have this food. On Thanksgiving in the United States, in addition to eating turkey, there is also the tradition of pardoning the turkey, which is done every year by the president himself.

The pardoned turkey represents the president's holiday blessing for the entire country. Every year before Thanksgiving, the Turkey Federation of America sends a turkey to the White House, which gets rid of the destiny of being killed and released by the president himself. After being pardoned by the president, the turkey is sent to a zoo to be farmed until it dies a natural death.

The first president to establish the pardoning of a turkey as a Thanksgiving ritual was George W. Bush Sr. and it has been about thirty years now. During President Obama's presidency, he even broke with the old tradition of pardoning one turkey and instead pardoned two, and on Thanksgiving this year, Trump performed the same ritual, pardoning a turkey.