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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If you are tempted to click in the rest of the long CNN article it is mostly a history and pictures of presidential pets up to Obama's dogs and Pence's cats.
I apologize for posting while the earlier posting was made.
So President Trump isn’t a dog person..no big deal, maybe he likes cats? Im a HUGE lover of dogs, would adopt every stray pup if I could but that’s me..some people like dogs, some don’t
Funny how ‘change’ is no longer a good thing in itself.
Can these people see beyond the ends of their own noses?
I don't see President Trump working on his image. I see him working.
Clinton’s dog Buddy apparently “knew too much” and had a mysterious accident.
More like a flying ashtray to the head, my guess.
Very considerate decision. Less work for the staff. JMHO
Where are Hussein’s two dogs now that he doesn’t have the $125,000 dog handler?
Did he eat them?
Where are Hussein’s two dogs now that he doesn’t have the $125,000 dog handler?
Did he eat them?
Oh noes - another pointless pretense bites the dust!
Yep, I think you are on the money.
They’ve been using the spray in all directions approach - pussy grab, Russia, tweets, nationalist, racist... but nothing seems to stick.
Soon now, when it can be conclusively proven he hates dogs, the house will take up articles.
Nor did 0bama's habit of devouring entire tureens of live puppies in a single repast appear to affect his own term in office very much. CNN declared live puppies to be America's New Multicultural Dish and the Food Channel was inundated with recipes.
Trump, however...well, clearly only Satan's minions fail to lull the press with a tank of goldfish who swim around with their mouths open, leaving one to conclude that they are Democrats in training. Time to impeach him now.
Okay by me. The White House is not the place for pets.
(or that of CNN...)
I know.
And he's like the first president in years who hasn't ever eaten a dog.
How did that happen?
They forgot Baron’s pet fidget spinner....
CNN is anti-autistic!!!!
Proper etiquette dictates that you place your napkin on your lap.
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