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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/opinion/trump-dogs-wolff-book.htmlWhat the President Doesnt Get About Dogs
Jennifer Weiner | JAN. 8, 2018
Among the revelations that have rained down in the wake of Michael Wolffs White House tell-all Fire and Fury the claims and counterclaims, the excerpts and the tweets, the books vicious portrayal of a clueless, childlike president whose courtiers are forced to produce daily episodes of Short Attention Span Theater surely the saddest is this: The president of the United States, leader of the free world and famously the first pet-less commander in chief since Thomas Jefferson, does not understand how dogs work.
This became clear during a particularly frothy late-night tweet storm, in which President Trump, in a pretzel-twist of rage over the perfidy of Mr. Wolff and the presidents former adviser and campaign strategist Steve Bannon, wrote: Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book. He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad!
There is a lot going on in this tweet. But it was one pungent phrase dumped like a dog that stuck in Dog Worlds craw like a sideways Snausage. What does being dumped like a dog entail, precisely? Asking for a concerned friend (or friends, actually), tweeted the Newsweek senior political writer Celeste Katz, posting her query above a shot of her dachshunds. The popular account @weratedogs summed it up by asking, simply: do you do you know what a dog is?
This is not the first time Mr. Trump has employed canine similes to describe an especially odious opponent, an enemy who has been not just vanquished but humiliated to the point that his very humanity is in doubt.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)says 'dog lover'...to see if they can explain that to me and so far nuthin'.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Dogs give what they expect from you- unconditional love. In a way, they present a challenge to us by challenging us to be forgiving, loving, cheerful and to have an open heart. That's a challenge Trump loses every single damn time, hence the hatred.
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,307 posts)mid-western town that was probably 25 miles from the nearest dog pound. If a farmer wanted to rid himself of an unwanted dog, he would bring it into town and dump it, leaving the dog on his own. Thus, stray dogs woul roam the town. Upon the arrival of a new dog, my dad would say looks like someone dumped a dog.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)Misogynistic connotation
We all know what he thinks of women
I think that he meant to infer that Bannon was dumped like Trump would dump a woman he felt wasnt attractive enough for him
sheshe2
(83,926 posts)Dogs are of course both male and female. Yet Donnie is not referring to the male.
He thinks women are bitches.
Cha
(297,705 posts)happen.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Period.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)He's a moron, end of.
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)SunSeeker
(51,725 posts)Dude had dog issues.
On edit, it's clear the dude has issues, period.