It’s no secret that President Trump and Vice President JD Vance are not exactly warm and fuzzy on animals.

One of Trump’s oft-used lines is to say someone “died like a dog,” was “choked like a dog” or was “treated like a dog.”

As a Washington Post article in 2018 reported, Trump has a long history of “using canine insults to dehumanize enemies.”

He has regularly called those who ran, um, “afowl” of him “dogs,” including former FBI Director James Comey, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, then Sen. Marco Rubio (who clearly recovered from the name calling, becoming Trump’s secretary of state in 2025).

In the 2024 presidential race, Vance famously said the country would be run by “childless cat ladies” if Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris won the election, prom

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