“What the F*** Is the Trump Admin’s Problem With Dogs?”

Presidents have always had pets. The White House has hosted dogs, cats, fish, and even two baby tigers which were the beloved pets of Martin Van Buren before Congress made him give the cubs to a zoo. Quite a flurry happened when Chelsea Clinton’s cat was said to be posing a menace to the White House birds. Oh, for those days of innocence, compared to what we deal with now. But the Trump White House is different and his entire administration is different in the same way: they have issues with dogs. They either don’t like dogs, they shoot dogs, they eat dogs, they experiment on dogs. Daily Beast tells the tail, tale:

You might remember that Donald Trump himself was one of the few presidents who did not have a pet in the White House. In fact, according to one of his advisers, Trump said that he thought it was “low class” for Mike Pence and his family to bring their pets to the Naval Observatory.

But it’s not just Trump. There’s a disturbing trend in his senior political appointees. And before they are confirmed, we need to figure out exactly what the f— is going on.

Kristi Noem

The most notorious of the dog-haters is, of course, Trump’s nominee for secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Noem is the current South Dakota governor and the kind of person who watches Old Yeller and roots for the rabies.

This spring, Noem published a book in which she detailed how she shot her dog, Cricket. In Noem’s own words:

“[Cricket] was out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life. The only problem was there were no hunters nearby to shoot the birds she scared up… The hunt was ruined. I was livid.”

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

First, let me say that RFK Jr. denies eating a dog.

But when you have to type the words “RFK Jr. denies eating a dog” there’s a good chance it’s because he seems like the kind of guy you could definitely picture eating a dog. According to Vanity Fair, last year RFK Jr. texted a picture to a friend of himself posing with a barbecued something.

Bears and dogs don’t do so well with Bobby. Not sure why, just sure that his father is rolling in his grave. I remember when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. I knew he had a son my age and I felt so sorry for him. Now I look at how he turned out and I’m sorrier still.

Accompanying the photograph was a note suggesting the friend should go to a restaurant in Korea that served dog meat. A veterinarian told the magazine that the skeleton in the picture was in fact a dog’s, due to its skeletal formation.

Now Kennedy has since denied that allegation, telling Fox News it wasn’t a dog at all: “It’s of me at a campfire in Patagonia on the Futaleufu River, eating a goat.”

You decide who’s telling the truth. And then there’s Mehmet Oz, “In 2022, Jezebel did a review of 75 studies published by Dr. Oz at Columbia University and found that his research killed over 300 dogs. Ethics of animal testing in general aside, a whistleblower claimed that Oz’s research inflicted needless suffering on the animals and violated the Animal Welfare Act.”

And there are others. Read the article. All I know is that a collection of people who have issues with Man’s Best Friend have assembled to run our government. And probably Major Biden would sink his teeth into every one of them. If you’re not an animal person, it doesn’t say a lot about your character.

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