PODCAST: Where’s the White House dog?

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OBAMA: Photo by Gary Fabiano-Pool/Getty Images BIDEN: Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images TRUMP: Photo by Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images BUSH: Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images
OBAMA: Photo by Gary Fabiano-Pool/Getty Images BIDEN: Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images TRUMP: Photo by Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images BUSH: Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

American presidents love dogs. The optics are perfect: loyal, friendly, impossible to fact-check.

From White House photo ops to wartime morale, First Dogs have always helped sell the presidency.

And then came the no-dog presidency.

Which tells you … quite a lot about the presidency of Donald Trump and why so many Americans voted for him.

Robyn Curnow’s podcast, “Searching for America”, examines the US from her outsider perspective – as a South African living in the American South. 

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Top image: Barack Obama with Bo (Gary Fabiano-Pool/Getty Images); Joe Biden with Champ and Major (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images); Donald Trump (Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images); George W Bush with Barney (Alex Wong/Getty Images).