Bizarre moment Joe Biden runs across White House lawn & apologizes to crowd at his last turkey pardoning in office

During his final turkey pardon as president, Joe Biden apologized to the crowd before rushing away in a strange occurrence.

While participating in the yearly Thanksgiving custom at the White House, President Biden abruptly took off and fled.

Just after Biden stopped sprinting and turned to face the cameras, some people in the crowd were seen waving on the event’s video.

Throughout, the band kept playing.

On Monday morning in Washington, DC, the commander in chief pardoned two fortunate turkeys, Peach and Blossom.

Biden declared on stage that the two released chickens would now “join the free birds of the United States of America.”

“Keep calm and gobble on,” he said in jest, before announcing that the birds were being released because of their “commitment to being productive members of society.”

They will now return to their hometown of Waseca, Minnesota, where they will serve as “agricultural ambassadors” at Farmamerica, an agricultural interpretive facility, for the remainder of their lives.

Although its exact beginnings are unknown, the yearly turkey pardon is said to have started more than a century ago.

According to unofficial accounts, Abraham Lincoln initiated it when he spared a bird from the dinner table after his son Tad begged him not to kill it.

President Harry Truman established the formal modern tradition in 1947.

Following World War II, Truman implemented “poultry-less Thursdays” in an attempt to conserve food; however, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day fell on Thursdays.

After a counter-initiative, “Hens for Harry,” was launched, the president was given a bird as a peace offering by the Poultry and Egg National Board and the National Turkey Federation.

President John F. Kennedy started the practice of publicly saving a turkey in November 1963, a few days before his assassination, but that specific bird was not spared from being eaten.

In the years that followed, the custom was occasionally observed, with the first women occasionally taking the turkey in place of their husbands.

President Ronald Reagan revived the custom in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until 1989—during the administration of his successor, George H.W. Bush—that the first poultry pardon was formally granted.

Since then, the Thanksgiving dinner table has avoided serving more than 40 fowl.

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