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Trump family breaks with presidential pet tradition (impeachable offense?)
CNN ^ | 10-21-2017 | Betsy Klein

Posted on 10/21/2017 12:07:00 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo

Washington (CNN)He campaigned and won vowing to shake up Washington. Now, President Donald Trump is again breaking with tradition on a more personal matter: keeping a pet at the White House.

The illustrious tradition of keeping pets in the White House dates back to Thomas Jefferson, who kept a mockingbird and a couple of bear cubs during his presidency. Throughout the years, presidential pets became celebrities of sorts.

"It softens their image, it broadens their appeal," Ed Lengel, chief historian at the White House Historical Association, told CNN. "They help create an atmosphere of the White House as a family, a lived-in place and not just a stiff museum, but a place where a family lives and plays and enjoys each other's company." For an image-conscious President, Trump seems to be in little rush to add a furry friend to the White House brood, making his the only first family in modern presidential history without a pet.

"There are no plans at this time" to add a pet to the first family, East Wing communications director Stephanie Grisham told CNN.

Trump lived with a poodle, Chappy, with his first wife, Ivana, who wrote in her memoir, "Raising Trump," that "Donald was not a dog fan."

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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The first dog is normally crap. Obamas were not dog people. The dogs were props. In fact there were two because they never got out and the Obamas left them alone. So they got another dog so as to let them keep each other company. LBJ was a dog person. Not many others were.


21 posted on 10/21/2017 12:25:23 PM PDT by poinq
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To: bigbob

He should at least get an orange kitten and pose with it on his head.


22 posted on 10/21/2017 12:25:35 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

No Dog???? This is the grounds to impeach that Mad Max has been looking for!


23 posted on 10/21/2017 12:26:03 PM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Trump is working doggedly to make America great again, which makes him the cat’s meow to the rest of us.


24 posted on 10/21/2017 12:26:16 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: C210N

It is cruel to have any animal that needs love and affection,and you are too busy to be home with them to give them that care. What a bunch of idiots.I would hate to be their pets. A good pet for them alligator.


25 posted on 10/21/2017 12:26:17 PM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight..)
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To: poinq
LBJ was a dog person.

I'm not so sure...

Lyndon Johnson lifts dog by ears

26 posted on 10/21/2017 12:28:26 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: pax_et_bonum

Thank you I see him working too... working his ass off. He probably doesn’t have time for a pet, his child is in school working hard and his wife is busy as well. Better they don’t have a pet then palm one off on somebody else to take care of and just trott it out for photo ops.
#AUTHENTIC


27 posted on 10/21/2017 12:29:13 PM PDT by connyankee (#covfefe lives!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Trump’s a germaphobe... but he could get an octopussy and drive the press crazy at press conferences by only answering the questions of those reporters brave enough to grab it out of the tank.


28 posted on 10/21/2017 12:30:45 PM PDT by piasa (...)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

He’s broken with many traditions (like hosting Ramadan dinners at the WH and attending the WH correspondence dinner and Kennedy Center honors), and every last one needed breaking. Bigly.


29 posted on 10/21/2017 12:30:53 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: poinq

I think the Bushes were dog lovers.


30 posted on 10/21/2017 12:33:10 PM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: piasa

He could name the octopus “Hillary” due to the similar public persona the pet and Ms. Clinton would share.


31 posted on 10/21/2017 12:34:23 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Get a snake and call it Hillary? Or a Rat an call it Demo.


32 posted on 10/21/2017 12:35:06 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn, the tag line disappeared again? Coursors!)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Both of Clinton’s pets were given away after they left the whites house. Some “love” there.

Wonder whatever happened to Obama’s dog...


33 posted on 10/21/2017 12:37:26 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

It’s time to start formally charging these fools with sedition.


34 posted on 10/21/2017 12:37:54 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Trump should stay clear of any cats as Pets. CNN would have bold headlines daily about him grabbing.......!


35 posted on 10/21/2017 12:38:15 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn, the tag line disappeared again? Coursors!)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

At least he never ate dog like the last presifent.


36 posted on 10/21/2017 12:38:55 PM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

At least he never ate dog like the last prezident.


37 posted on 10/21/2017 12:39:30 PM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

At least he never ate dog like the last prezident.


38 posted on 10/21/2017 12:39:41 PM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Trump needs a honey badger.


39 posted on 10/21/2017 12:39:47 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

HOW about a potbelly pig? A goat? Maybe a babboon.


40 posted on 10/21/2017 12:41:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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