White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her son Nicholas as Waddle visits the press briefing room prior to the turkey pardoning ceremony on Nov. 25, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
First lady Melania Trump held a poll on X to name this year's turkeys, resulting in Waddle and Gobble.
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Last year’s pardoned turkeys, "Peach" and "Blossom," and the ones before them, "Liberty" and "Bell," all came from Minnesota.
First lady Melania Trump welcomes the arrival of the White House Christmas Tree on Nov. 23, 2020. (Ting Shen/Xinhua/Getty Images)
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The Fraser fir, which will stand in the Blue Room of the White House, will be presented by farm owners Rex and Jessica Korson. The two will also supply a smaller tree for the Oval Office.
The family earned the honor by winning the National Christmas Tree Association’s National Tree Contest in July, the competition that selects the farm supplying the White House Christmas tree each year.
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