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Call it a bit of a turkey.

At a much diminished White House ceremony earlier today, marking the annual Thanksgiving tradition during which a president pardons a bird from the dinner table ahead of the holiday, Donald Trump seemed to realize his star had already begun to wane, the Guardian's David Smith writes ...

On Tuesday, Biden introduced the brainy grownups of his government-in-waiting at a weighty event with lofty talk of restoring America's moral leadership and saving the planet from the climate crisis.

An hour later, at the White House, a turkey was pardoned by a lame duck discovering how fickle the media circus can be.

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