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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRick Wilson: Nothing tells me more about Trump's character than that he hates dogs
Link to tweet
Wilson was commenting on this tweet from Philip Rucker:
Link to tweet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/like-a-dog-trump-has-a-long-history-of-using-canine-insults-to-dehumanize-enemies/2018/08/14/d0c67fb8-9fce-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Animals are smart. They know who to trust and who not to trust. You can learn a lot from animals. If a person treats animals bad, they are a shitty person.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)They are just needy objects to him. Is it any wonder that he's OK with trophy hunting African big game?
madaboutharry
(40,219 posts)The look on that dogs face is saying:
Please help me! My owner is a crazy Trumper who is making me wear this horrible shirt! WTF! Save me.
SunSeeker
(51,664 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)And who could blame the dog?
calimary
(81,441 posts)I wouldnt be surprised to find out dogs dont like him. Cats probably dont either.
SunSeeker
(51,664 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts).
He would kill anything he feels he has dominion over.
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roamer65
(36,747 posts)They can feel the evil in him.
at140
(6,110 posts)Dogs require love and attention from their human masters. Trump is incapable of that.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)Otherwise, why would he need to have all these rallies where he's surrounded by people who tell him how great he is? And why do his lies about the size of his rallies get bigger and bigger? It's almost as if he's trying to prove that he is lovable by using external metrics.
Many, many psychology students will earn their doctorates with dissertations written about this man-child.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)something along he lines of "what would I look like having to walk a dog on the lawn"....emphasis of course on HIS image, HIS having to care for something.
really is best he doesn't want to have any dependent critters. Look what he has done with his kids, once they were old enough to be inducted into his crime empire.
Wawannabe
(5,676 posts)I bet dogs bite him. Or ay least the hair on their back goes up!
F tRump! Ruff! Ruff!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Not only does he not like dogs, or any pets, he insults people who do like them.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)She has a few. And I believe she thinks he is low class. Her Corgis are much nicer than TRump ever dreamed of being.
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Correction: The Queen HAD a few. From Wiki:
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)everywhere. If she does it, how can it possibly be low-class, like the way Trump was when he walked ahead of her at their meeting. He is such a vulgar, ill-bred boor.
Takket
(21,620 posts)animal companions provide much needed and desired unconditional love and empathy to people. A concept drumpf could never understand and in fact finds disgusting.
BigDemVoter
(4,156 posts)and I know they would just LOATHE Pussy Grabber & would more than likely bite him.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)calimary
(81,441 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)well played
happybird
(4,616 posts)there was an unfortunate accident, believe me.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)livetohike
(22,160 posts)evil. Now that its out in the open maybe some of his MAGAts will disown him.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)trueblue2007
(17,237 posts)Trump is the first modern president not to have a dog or any pet in the White House.
Americas first president, George Washington, set the tone by breeding foxhounds. In recent decades, Ronald Reagan had Rex; George H.W. Bush had Millie; Bill Clinton had Buddy; George W. Bush had Spotty, Barney and Miss Beazley; and Barack Obama had Bo and Sunny.
The last president not to have a dog was William McKinley, who served from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. But even he had pets a parrot and roosters.
Theodore Roosevelt sometimes would have over 30 pets in the White House because the president had such a love of Gods creatures, said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, who authored a Roosevelt biography.
Brinkley suggested that Trump has no pets because he has no sense of giving and warmth and caring to any other animal but himself. Having no pet is another manifestation of his narcissism.
Brooke Janis, who co-authored First Dogs, a book about presidential pets, recalled the adage often attributed to former president Harry S. Truman, If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
This is a president who needs a friend, Janis said of Trump. Having a dog offers unconditional love, and that is something that this president desires so deeply and cant seem to find.
Neema
(1,151 posts)the punishment of being forced to live with that vile family of grifters. No animal deserves such a fate.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,409 posts)About 20 of these would make a nice present for the thing in our White House:
kskiska
(27,045 posts)until they were old enough to work for him. Just look at poor Barron. Have you ever seen Trump genuinely interact with him? Does he even ever play golf with him?
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Can you imagine how he feels? They can't shelter him from what the world thinks about his father.
napi21
(45,806 posts)I told my husband "I knew there was a reason i hated that btard, and I just found out why! He hates dogs." I'm a bit surprised he hasn't gotten bit by a dog, or many dogs, over the years. I bet if he decided to get a dog to appear to be a better president, he'd never find one that would like HIM!
I have always trusted my dogs to be a great judge of strangers. If they don't like somebody, I don't pursue any kind of relationship with that person. If they do like them, we usually end up being friends.
Many times, I find out later, the person my dogs didn't like demonstrate they aren't good people.
ooky
(8,928 posts)He asked his audience "HOW WOULD I LOOK walking a dog?"
duforsure
(11,885 posts)He can't con them , and they can't give him payoffs with money, and they won't obey him , and he knows they'll attack him at some point. He doesn't have the capacity to have compassion for anything else but himself.