Pure fluff, but it is nice to have actual humans there again.
On Sunday, the first dogs arrived from Delaware, where they had been waiting until things were unpacked and settled enough to allow a comfortable entry for the two German Shepherds at their new pad.
“Champ is enjoying his new dog bed by fireplace and Major loved running around the South Lawn,” the White House said a press release early Monday morning. Champ lived at the vice president’s residence during the Biden’s time there, and Major was adopted by the family in 2018 from a Delaware pet rescue.
Awwww.
On Sunday they picked up bagels at a deli in Georgetown.
Biden’s visit to a DC dining establishment on Day 5 of his presidency already ties him with the number of local restaurants former President Donald Trump visited. In his four years in Washington, Trump seldom ate out and when he did, only did so at one place — the steakhouse at the Trump hotel.
This is what I mean. The painful narrowness and mental poverty of the man. He’s never read a book, he doesn’t eat out, he eats steak and burgers, he doesn’t go to movies or plays, he doesn’t go to museums or galleries, he doesn’t have dogs or cats, he doesn’t walk when everyone is walking but rides in a golf cart instead…the he doesn’ts are infinite. So it’s nice to have humans there again, humans and canines.
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Biden cycles as well, which may be one reason he is fit and slim at 78, not a bulging slob like Trump.
Indeed. In fact I meant to include the riding a golf cart when everyone else walks item in the list.
The painful narrowness and mental poverty of the man. He’s never read a book, he doesn’t eat out, he eats steak and burgers, he doesn’t go to movies or plays, he doesn’t go to museums or galleries, he doesn’t have dogs or cats…the he doesn’ts are infinite.
Yes, yes, and yes, but let’s not forget — this is why we can’t relate to him, why we find him so unattractive, why we find him so uninteresting. But it’s not why he’s evil. His real estate moghul who didn’t pay his employees, his actions as a racist landlord, his actions as a disastrous president — these are why he’s evil.
It’s convenient that the same person is both so despicable to us cultured people AND evil, but I’m not sure that the two are related.
I didn’t say they were. I’ve posted about the substantive evil once or twice too.
Note the first sentence. I said it’s pure fluff. Of course having dogs v not having dogs is fluff next to the 70 years of pure evil, which is why I started with a disclaimer.
Steak is probably the most overrated food around, but Trump makes it so much worse by ordering it overcooked and with ketchup.
Also, does it really count as dining out if you eat at your own restaurant?
Hell no. It counts as changing location slightly, but that’s it. (Really very slightly. The Old Post Office aka Trump’s hotel is just up the street.)
Yeah, I’ve been by there many times. It’s actually a pretty interesting building, and for a while before it was leased to Trump it hosted a sort of mini-mall and food court.
I heard on the radio today that it was already losing money while Il Douchebag was still occupying the White House, and now with the combination of the pandemic, the insurrection, and the delousing it’s going south fast. Rooms are listed at $8000 a night; for that money you could buy a couple of Rolexes.
Here’s hoping it gets repurposed soon.
I never said you did.
Indeed. We’re in full agreement here.
Cute wolves, yes!
What a Maroon – I love the building. I love showy neo-Gothic buildings like that – Manchester Town Hall for instance. I got to visit it when I was there for QED. The Canadian parliament building is another. I hadn’t heard of the Old Post Office but happened on it when I was in DC for a CFI conference, and went right straight in and up the tower to look at the view. (The Ottawa building also has a tower you can go up to look at the view.) It annoys the hell out of me that Trump grabbed it.
GW @ 9 – come on. You said “but let’s not forget” – you weren’t just making a random observation, you were correcting.
Correct me by all means, but not when I’ve already said what you’re saying.
Musta thought it was a pussy.
That tower is visible from a lot of vantage points on this side of the river–along with the Washington Monument, the Capitol, Georgetown University, and the Cathedral it’s one of the most recognizable features of what passes for the DC skyline. It’s sickening to have his name associated with it.
Sometime during the primaries in 2015-16 we were downtown, and I happened to notice his name on a construction sign outside the building. I remember thinking that was as close as he’d ever get to the White House. So ended my career as a prognosticator.
I stand corrected.
I’m sorry.
But Ophelia, why should Trump bother to go out? He’s the healthiest person EVER, according to that letter that he dictated to his personal physician. You don’t get to be that way by pandering to mutts or eating steaks that still bleed. His blood pressure is “astonishingly excellent”. His physical strength and stamina are “extraordinary”. His cardiovascular status is “excellent” (which, I spose, is one step down from “astonishingly excellent”, but still quite good, amirite). Besides, Trump had pets in the White House. What purpose do you think Bannon and Pence served?
One more thing about the Old Post Office that you may or may not remember. When Trump was awarded the lease to develop the hotel there, he contracted with José Andrés* to open a restaurant. But then the orange monster descended that awful escalator and made that godawful speech, and so JA (who employs quite a few Latinos) broke the lease, leading to suits and counter-suits that were eventually settled out of court. Since then he’s used his nonprofit World Central Kitchen to bring real food to people hit by disasters, starting with Puerto Rico after the hurricane. His book about that experience, We Fed an Island, is a good read, and an antidote to Trump-inspired cynicism.
*If you’re not familiar with the restaurant scene here, José Andrés is a Spanish-born cook who came to the US after being fired from El Bulli, and eventually opened the Spanish restaurant Jaleo in DC. Since then, he’s created several innovative restaurants, mostly in this area but he’s also got one in Las Vegas and I believe a few other cities.
GW – Is ok!
José Andrés is a mensch.
I personally find it rather endearing that Joe Biden named his dogs “Champ” and “Major.”
Now is the time for him to get “Fluffy,” the new kitten.
Back to normal.
Champ and Major who love to snuggle.
There is some kind of irony buried in the fact that Trump the lump is still alive, and his perjured personal physician is dead:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/nyregion/harold-bornstein-dead.html
Speaking of dogs – I walked down the hill to the beach park on Puget Sound just now, and there I got to watch a guy and his dog playing keep-away with balloons. It was hilarious. Guy would inflate one then toss it, guy would bat it upwards with his hand, dog would poke it upwards with its nose, very gracefully and successfully, often with all four paws off the ground. Eventually the balloon would hit the ground and the dog would pop it. Repeat. I went to the far end of the park and back so they were gone by then but one balloon that the dog had poked over the fence onto the railroad tracks was still there, a nice shade of lavender.
It’s just nice to see a rounded human in the office.