It is a tradition for the President of the United States to have a dog in the White House. For 120 years the sitting president has had a dog, that is until former President Donald Trump. The 45th president was derided and chided by the left for not housing a furry friend during his term, but in 2019, he offered a simple explanation.
During a campaign rally in 2019, Trump finally explained the absence of a canine companion in Washington. He said: “I wouldn’t mind having one, honestly, but I don’t have any time. How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn? Would that be right? I don’t know. Feels a little phony, phony to me. A lot of people say, ‘Oh, you should get a dog,’ ‘Why?’ ‘It’s good politically.’ I said, ‘Look, that’s not the relationship I have with my people.’”
Indeed, Trump was an extremely busy president, especially in comparison to Biden, who rarely made public appearances without handlers and note cards and spent an estimated 40% of his presidency on vacation. Fittingly, Biden has had two dogs to make up for the absence of one during the Trump presidency.
However, Biden doesn’t have two dogs because he is a dog lover. Instead, his first dog, Major, was removed from the White House for aggressive behavior towards the Secret Service, including numerous attacks, sending one agent to the hospital. Major was a German Shepard and was re-homed to friends of the Biden’s in 2021.
The next Biden pooch, a German Shepard named Commander, has been accused of biting seven people over four months last year. It was noted: “The shocking spate of incidents involving Commander — none of them previously reported — mirrors attacks involving Major, who the White House says was given to family friends after biting many Secret Service members in 2021. In the most serious documented incident involving Commander, the White House physician’s office on Nov. 3, 2022, referred a bitten Secret Service uniformed officer to a local hospital for treatment after the dog clamped down on their arm and thigh, according to emails released under the Freedom of Information Act to conservative legal group Judicial Watch.”
New emails detail the aggressiveness of Commander, including a scary incident where the dog lunged at the throat of a Secret Service agent. It read: “The family pet jumped on (the agent) and bit on the left chest area, resulting in a torn shirt, and two small lacerations.” The emails go on to detail at least two dozen attacks by the vicious canine at the Biden’s vacation homes and Camp David
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said: “The Bidens are lucky no one has been killed as a result of their reckless disregard for the safety of Secret Service and White House employees. These Biden dog attack documents again raise fundamental questions about President Biden and the Secret Service. This is a special sort of craziness and corruption where a president and first lady would allow their dog to repeatedly attack Secret Service and White House personnel.”
Commander has been removed from the White House, and considering the upcoming election, it is unlikely that Biden will bring another dog in for what should be the last few months of his presidency. Perhaps Joe Biden can be re-homed like Major and Commander, and Donald Trump will reconsider and get a friendly, soft Golden Retriever for his next term.
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