Fired like a dog
Trump and “like a dog” – Philip Rucker in the Post in 2018:
In President Trump’s singular lexicon, there is no more vicious put-down than likening an adversary to a dog.
“Choked like a dog.”
“Fired like a dog.”
“Sweat like a dog.”
Then there is what Trump said Tuesday of Omarosa Manigault Newman, his former reality television protege and White House staffer who is now scorned and telling all in her new book, “Unhinged,” and accompanying media tour.
“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,” Trump tweeted. “Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!”
Animalistic slurs come easily to Trump, who over the past few years has likened a long list of perceived enemies to dogs — including former FBI director James B. Comey, former acting attorney general Sally Q. Yates, former chief White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), journalist David Gregory and conservative commentator Erick Erickson.
Calling a woman a dog is just old-style frat house sexism, where it meant “not sexually attractive to frat boys.” Calling anyone and everyone you don’t like a dog is weird.
Let’s hope “jailed like a Trump” becomes common parlance.
Actually, ‘dog’ is both a generic term, as in ‘dogs and cats’, and is also the term for the male of the species Canis whteveritisus. The female of that species is called a ‘bitch’. And when applied to a human female, usually by human males, ‘bitch’ means ‘a woman who refuses to observe her place in the pecking order’, and of course, male dominance.
This would include Trump dominance, but him being banged up in the Dade County Hoosegow would sort of take the shine off it.
Canis lupus. Dogs are merely a subspecies of wolves. All dogs are wolves, but not all wolves are dogs. Wolves made such good candidates for domestication, and so early, because they are loyal, affectionate, and (I forget the third thing — cooperative?).
Also: https://www.dogloversdigest.com/what-is-a-male-dog-called/
Jen Houston’s classic ‘Crime After Crime’ is appropriate at this point, IMHO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnFQ4s5MQzY
The thing is, dogs don’t sweat much, only from their paws. So he’s saying they didn’t sweat much at all? No, of course not. Trump knows nothing about dogs…or people…or anything else.
Omar, I think that is a fabulous one; she also did a parody of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire about Trump, but I can’t remember what it’s called.
Which is the best support class: cats or dogs?
The dog tier list.
What other group has an extreme aversion to dogs, and often use the word as an insult?
Muslims!
TRUMP IS A SEKRIT MUSLIM!!!!
Re GW’s etymological referrence:
So the older words for male and female dog were “cur” and “bitch”. And “cur” for males is longer used as it is considered to be too rude, but “bitch” for females seems to still be occasionally used for dogs, and frequently used pejoratively for human women. Of course.
Any updates on Murphy and Cooper?
GW, fluffy. Wolves are fluffy and hence were irresistible to humans.
Per etymonline:
Nowadays, a cur is usually a mixed breed; i.e., a mutt. For example, a catahoula leopard dog is classified by the AKC as a cur, as is the mountain cur (duh).
Ikn #5 – not defending Trump, but we do have the expression “sweating like a pig”, and pigs sweat even less than dogs. One for the list of strange things humans attribute to animals, I guess.
John Wasson @ 9 – who are Murphy and Cooper?
John Wasson @ 9 – who are Murphy and Cooper?
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2021/fired-like-a-dog/
Just to clear up the mystery.
Cooper https://twitter.com/OpheliaBenson/status/416744497117007873
Murphy Irish Setter iknklast #20 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2020/orwell-did-not-write-dick-and-jane-books/
Off topic, maybe not suitable for a post, but I do think about them and other dogs in the neighborhood, Dorian, Roger … off and on. Good companions. And there’s Olive and Mabel.
Oh THAT Cooper. lol. In my defense I would have grasped that if he’d been mentioned alone, it was Murphy who threw me off.
Dear Olive and Mabel. Cooper’s Primary Humans have the picture book about them, as is only right and proper.