'Petty': Trump order barred ex-CIA chief from party for dog named for late wife

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dog/

'Petty': Trump order barred ex-CIA chief from party for dog named for late wife

Matthew Chapman
July 17, 2025 6:58PM ET

In a move blasted by The Atlantic's Shane Harris as sheer "pettiness," President Donald Trump prohibited the former Obama administration spymaster from attending the graduation ceremony of a bomb-sniffing dog he sponsored and which was named after his late wife.

The dog, named Susan, was "an adorable yellow Lab [who] completed a CIA training program for 'detection K9s,'" and was "a natural at sniffing out concealed explosives," including suicide vests and car bombs. And she had been sponsored by James Clapper.

"Clapper, 84, was one of the longest-serving and most experienced intelligence officers in U.S. history, and was the Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration," wrote Harris. "There was a certain professional symmetry in his pup ending up at the CIA, a place he both knew intimately and deeply admired. It was also bittersweet: Clapper named Susan after his late wife, a former National Security Agency employee who had been at his side during his five-decade career. Susan, a great animal lover, had volunteered at a local shelter and 'doted on the family dog, Augusta,' according to her 2023 obituary."

Clapper had been looking forward to the ceremony for the dog, but according to the report, "the day before the event, in late May, he received an email from the nonprofit dog-training group: Clapper’s name had been scratched from the guest list, per an executive order from the president of the United States."

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(If you were wondering how awful terrible inhuman t person is.)

[underpants]

1. He signed an Executive Order to stop a specific person from going to a party?

Sheesh.

[Bayard]

2. Spiteful piece of shit.

Nothing is too low for him.

[spanone]

3. Petty? More like Evil.

[riversedge]

4. Trump daily Meanness is on display once again!!

Link to tweet

[mercuryblues]

5. Maybe trump was feeling the urge

to stalk the dog and move on her like a b*

[Pinback]

12. "I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait."

The Slobberfather.

[William Seger]

6. He's a rotten president because he's a rotten person

They say it's TDS to notice that, but I'd like to know WTF is wrong with people who can't see that, or don't care.

[bronxiteforever]

7. Agree. Rotten to the core.

[Vinca]

8. Trump is such a small, nasty person.

[Grim Chieftain]

9. He is consumed by hatred and evil

Every time I think "Surely, he's hit rock bottom, he can't sink lower" he does. He is a cancer on our country.

I have tried to believe in a benevolent supreme being, but the very fact that this demon gets away with everything, makes me more and more agnostic - and that's putting it mildly.

When is enough enough?

Edit to add - This is coming from someone who used to be the Director of Christian Education at our church.

[3catwoman3]

10. And there are people who believe Taco Donvict...

…was sent by gawd. Talk about delusional -

[Grim Chieftain]

11. It boggles the mind

It's getting more and more difficult to believe 'good will prevail'.

[Cheezoholic]

13. WTF the kind of shit the media covers. Who cares about this. We have more to worry about like LOSING OUR DEMOCRACY n/t

[joanbarnes]

14. No one was wondering how terrible he is.........