Donald Trump Reportedly Dissed Kristi Noem By Comparing Her With Donald Trump Jr.
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After hearing that the South Dakota governor once killed a dog, the elder Trump is said to have told his son, "Even you wouldn’t kill a dog, and you kill everything."
President-elect Donald Trump was apparently not impressed with Kristi Noem once shooting and killing her dog, as he reportedly shaded the South Dakota governor by comparing her with his son, avid hunter Donald Trump Jr.
After news of the shooting broke last year, the elder Trump told Trump Jr., “That’s not good at all,” according to a Tuesday report in the New York Post, citing an excerpt from the upcoming book “Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power.”
Trump isn’t necessarily known to be a big fan of dogs. He doesn’t own one and has used the phrase “like a dog” when discussing the treatment of people he’s insulting.
Still, he appeared to see the issue with Noem shooting her pooch, reportedly giving his firstborn child a dubious compliment by saying, “Even you wouldn’t kill a dog, and you kill everything.”
In the 2024 book “No Going Back,” Noem had revealed that she once killed a wirehaired pointer when it was around 14 months old after realizing that the animal was “untrainable” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog,” among other things.