While President Trump has abandoned even the appearance of a leadership role in the intensifying coronavirus pandemic, he will finally emerge from his post-election sulking to show the nation he’s still in charge — of turkey pardoning.The annual presidential turkey pardon ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday is meant to be a light-hearted affair, and a way for the White House to project a warm spirit and a sense of normalcy.
This year, it is anything but normal.Trump, now in a lame duck presidency while he continues an ever-more desperate legal strategy to claim victory in the 2020 election, has stayed almost entirely out of the spotlight in the weeks since November 3.