Their eye-rolls at their dad’s lame jokes were all we had left to look forward to this year.

Every Thanksgiving, Americans gather with friends and family to celebrate a tradition as old as time: Watching the Obama girls get embarrassed by their dad's lame jokes.

Gary Cameron / Reuters

As part of his constitutional* duties, the president pardons two turkeys to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday and gives a speech laden with cringe-worthy puns.

*Not at all constitutional.

Evan Vucci / AP

"Of course, Thanksgiving is a family holiday as much as a national one," Obama said at Wednesday's ceremony, "so for the past seven years I've established another tradition: Embarrassing my daughters with a corny-copia of dad jokes about turkeys."

Carlos Barria / Reuters

"Actually, they just couldn't take my jokes anymore," he conceded. "They were fed up."

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