US President Joe Biden’s dogs Champ and Major have moved into the White House, reviving a longstanding tradition of presidential pets that was broken under Donald Trump.
The pooches can be seen trotting on the White House grounds in pictures retweeted by First Lady Jill Biden’s spokesman Michael LaRosa, with the pointed obelisk of the Washington Monument in the background.
“Champ is enjoying his new dog bed by the fireplace, and Major loved running around on the South Lawn,” LaRosa told CNN in a statement Monday.
The Bidens’ dogs, both German shepherds, follow the pawprints of presidential pets that included Barack Obama’s Bo, a black Portuguese water dog, and George W. Bush’s Scottish terrier, Barney.
Trump, a famously finicky germophobe, broke with that convention — as he did with many presidential traditions — and never had a pet in his White House.
“How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn,” Trump asked, with a grimace, in a video included in a Biden campaign ad.
Per the WH: The First Family wanted to get settled before bringing the dogs down to Washington from Delaware. Champ is enjoying his new dog bed by the fireplace and Major loved running around on the South Lawn.
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) January 25, 2021
(AP)
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‘Trump, a famously finicky germophobe, broke with that convention’
Really? I thought he was careless about health and never wore a mask.
‘“How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn,” Trump asked, with a grimace, in a video included in a Biden campaign ad.’
Vote for Biden! Return pets to the White House!
He’s more qualified than that female dog of a vp
This is the first sign of intelligence in the “new” White House.
Sickos. The way they drag Trump into every gosh darn article… as if it’s somehow evil that he didn’t have a pet and he bwoke wif twadishin… #AP_is_a_bunch_of_idiots
הוי מתפלל בשלומה של מלכות
yes we would have have preferred Trump, but it is mamash wrong to poke fun at the President, especially as he represents a מלכות של חסד.
If chaztal said we have to respect the king/president even when they were cruel tyrants, then we must certainly have to respect Biden, who is amazing when compared to the Russian Czars, and the Roman emperors, Spanish kings etc.
With a dementia riddled man in the White House I guess they couldn’t find anything more newsworthy than this…
Such biased reporting. There is no mention about the dog that moved in on January 20th.
that was broken under Donald Trump Thank you President Donald Trump for not having debased yourself to the level of a dog, but on the contrary, for having done such an incredibly excellent job, and we cannot wait await Noon on 1/20/2025 to see you President Donald Trump back in the White House.
I thought the dogs moved in January 6. Biden sure knows how to bark. He wants to muzzle everyone.
Those are not the only dogs that moved into the White House; four dogs moved in, with 12 legs between them.