Do bored teenage daughters get a pardon too? Sasha and Malia can't hide their disdain as Obama saves turkeys from the slaughterhouse

A luxury Washington D.C. hotel, which has hosted almost every U.S. president since Franklin Pierce, has welcomed two of its most unusual guests yet - a pair of 50lb turkeys. The male birds - named Mac and Cheese - traveled nine hours on Monday by car from their home in Ohio to their lavish $350 custom-suite at the Willard InterContinental, complete with a flat screen TV, mini bar and wood shaving pit. But the journey wasn't in vain - on Wednesday afternoon the gobblers will meet President Obama as they vie for the title of National Thanksgiving Turkey - meaning the more beauty sleep they got the better.