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Donald Trump seems to compare the people he doesn’t like to dogs all the time. In a recent tweet, he compared Omarosa Manigault Newman to a dog, a former director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison, a White House staffer.
Here is the tweet:
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. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018
Trump’s long list of people who he compared to dogs
It seems that President Trump likes to throw down animalistic slurs to whosoever he feels –
- Former FBI director James Comey,
- Former acting attorney general Sally Yates
- Former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon
- Mitt Romney (former Republican nominee)
- Republican Senator Marco Rubio
- Journalist David Gregory
- Conservative commentator Erick Erickson.
As per his tweet on Manigault Newman, she wasn’t fired like a dog, but he mentioned her as a “dog”.
Backlash on Trump’s tweet
Calling one of the highest-ranking African American, who was a former White House staff invited stern condemnation.
Mr. President, it is beneath you and the office of the presidency to call any woman a dog. It is degrading and demeaning, and I pray that you will stop this vulgar behavior. Our country is better than this.
— Elijah E. Cummings (@RepCummings) August 14, 2018
“In the fascist style of politics, one of the crucial elements is distinguishing ‘us’ from ‘them’. We are intrinsically good; they are intrinsically bad, defective, subhuman, etcetera,” said David Livingstone Smith, a philosophy professor who studies dehumanization and racism and wrote a book on the subject, Less Than Human.
Smith said, “dehumanising rhetoric was used by leaders to elicit fear and solidarity against some perceived existential threat from “others”. Yet, while dogs are considered dirty in some cultures, such as in the Middle East, they are popular in the United States as household pets and are considered loyal and adoring.”
Donald Trump is the first US president to not have a dog or any pet in the White House. Former presidents like Barack Obama had a Portuguese water dog named Bo.
As history goes;
- George Washington bred foxhounds.
- Ronald Reagan had a Spaniel.
- George H.W. Bush had an English Springer Spaniel named Millie
- Bill Clinton had a Labrador retriever named Buddy
- George W. Bush had a Scottish Terrier named Barney
Reference: WashingtonPost
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