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Monday, January 25, 2021
Champ and Major, Biden’s ‘First Dogs,’ arrive at White House
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Joe Biden’s dogs Champ and Major have moved into the White House, reviving a longstanding tradition of presidential pets that was broken under Donald Trump.
The pooches can be seen trotting on the White House grounds in pictures retweeted by First Lady Jill Biden’s spokesman Michael LaRosa, with the pointed obelisk of the Washington Monument in the background.
First dogs update!
Champ and Major Biden joined the President and the First Lady at the White House on Sunday, per @MichaelLaRosa46
Official WH photos by Adam Schultz pic.twitter.com/bCSWFVPZL8
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) January 25, 2021
“Champ is enjoying his new dog bed by the fireplace, and Major loved running around on the South Lawn,” LaRosa told CNN in a statement Monday.
The Bidens’ dogs, both German shepherds, follow the pawprints of presidential pets that included Barack Obama’s Bo, a black Portuguese water dog, and George W. Bush’s Scottish terrier, Barney.
Trump, a famously finicky germophobe, broke with that convention — as he did with many presidential traditions — and never had a pet in his White House.
“How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn,” Trump asked, with a grimace, in a video included in a Biden campaign ad.
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