This is a legitimate question. I genuinely want to know if Donald Trump hates dogs or if he simply doesn’t know how dogs and dog ownership work. The reason I ask is because I saw this on Twitter…

“Watch them start to choke like dogs,” Trump says, watching Yates & Clapper. “They are desperate for breath.” https://t.co/dnh9yazaWl

— erica orden (@eorden) May 11, 2017

And it reminded me that he has made other weird dog comparisons before.

Obama called Reverend Wright his friend, counselor & great leader–then dumped him like a dog!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2012

Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again–just watch. He can do much better!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2012

Egypt is a total mess. We should have backed Mubarak instead of dropping him like a dog.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2012

Wow, great news! I hear @EWErickson of Red State was fired like a dog. If you read his tweets, you'll understand why. Just doesn't have IT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2015

I would very much like to know if the President of the United States of America legitimately doesn’t know how dogs work, because that seems like pretty basic information. Or, worse, what if he hates dogs? That’s way worse than him eating steaks well done with ketchup.

Dogs don’t get fired (except in rural communities or farms, where rabid ones get shot). They don’t dump each other or cheat on each other because they are too primitive to understand the concept of monogamous relationships. And you don’t drop dogs. From any height.

Some senior adviser in the White House really needs to explain dogs and dog ownership to the President, because dogs are wonderful creatures and he would probably not be so grumpy at news reports if he had one to go home to.