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-- 2017 --
July 28: President Trump breaks 150-year tradition of pets in the White House
President Trump is the first U.S. president in 150 years to be without a pet, reports the New York Post.
His three immediate predecessors—former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton—had dogs, as have most others before them.
According to the Presidential Pet Museum, there were also cat owners including Bush, Clinton, and Jimmy Carter, and bird keepers Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/07/28/president-trump-breaks-150-year-tradition-pets-white-house/23054783/
December 5: Trump Thinks The Pences Are 'Yokels' Because They Brought Pets To Washington
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-thinks-pences-are-yokels-because-they-brought-pets-washington-736285
-- 2018 --
March 23: Donald Trump’s Civil Rights Office for Housing Has Found the Real Problem: Pets
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/23/emotional-support-animals-housing-law/
August 14: ‘Like a dog’: Trump has a long history of using canine insults to dehumanize enemies
In President Trump’s singular lexicon, there is no more vicious put-down than likening an adversary to a dog.
“Choked like a dog.”
“Fired like a dog.”
“Sweat like a dog.”
Then there is what Trump said Tuesday of Omarosa Manigault Newman, his former reality television protege and White House staffer who is now scorned and telling all in her new book, “Unhinged,” and accompanying media tour.
“When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out,” Trump tweeted. “Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!”
Animalistic slurs come easily to Trump, who over the past few years has likened a long list of perceived enemies to dogs — including former FBI director James B. Comey, former acting attorney general Sally Q. Yates, former chief White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), journalist David Gregory and conservative commentator Erick Erickson.
But in Trump’s telling, Manigault Newman did not simply get fired “like a dog.” She was a “dog” herself.
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?noredirect=on&utm_term=.777d22e75bf3
September 18: Trump target Bruce Ohr remembered in Oak Ridge as part of special family
Bruce Ohr, the focus of recent attacks by President Donald Trump, is an Oak Ridge native remembered for his family's brains and kindness to a dog.
The White House announced in early August that Trump was considering revoking Ohr's security clearance because of his involvement with former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and Ohr's wife's employment by the company that hired Steele to prepare a controversial dossier on the president's ties
"They were a very musically inclined family and he was very, very smart," said Melanie Fillauer, who lived two doors down from the Ohrs growing up. "They were no different than anyone else, they were just very very intelligent."
"I remember them being very involved in everything in our neighborhood," she said. They were just an extremely nice family."
Fillauer said the Ohr's adopted a blind dog named Prince that became a sort of neighborhood mascot.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2018/09/18/trump-target-bruce-ohr-remembered-oak-ridge-part-good-family/1201765002/
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