Trump calls owning pets "Low Class"

[Catherine]

I couldn't find a more direct report, but it is significant that he hasn't denied it. Twitter should have been full of denials, but it wasn't. 

It is also significant that he has not brought a pet to the White House. This is a long standing presidential tradition. He does not want a pet. He didn't have pets before he became president either.

You are right that it is disturbing. This is a man in a position of power who is making decisions that effect the lives of many animals. He can change the laws that protect wildlife. He can change the laws that protect domestic animals, both farm animals and pets. He has already made negative changes. Years of hard work to gain protection for animals and the environment could be wiped out in a few short years. Undoing the damage, assuming it can be undone, will take years of hard work. 

It is sad/scary/ frightening to think that a decision to allow a pipeline or drilling in an ecologically fragile area could result in the loss of an actual species. Allowing a toxic pesticide to be widely used could cause the loss of many things, in particular our main pollinator, the bees. I don't think this man has the empathy or the wisdom to make the decisions that he is making, but he does have the power.