White House Floor Was Left Covered In Blood After One Of 24 Biting Incidents Involving President Biden’s Dog

There have been a lot of people who have been given long leashes in the Biden administration. Someone showed up at the White House with cocaine. The Defense Secretary had an extended stay in the hospital without letting people know. The President himself made up stories about his college football career.

It's a veritable free-for-all, but no one has had a longer leash figuratively — and literally — speaking than Biden's German Shepherd, Commander.

Commander has a biting streak that makes Cujo look like a Westminster champ. 

According to Daily Mail, new documents revealed that Commander was at the center of 24 "incidents."

Now, Commander has since been removed from the White House. Twenty-three incidents? Now, that could be dealt with. Twenty-four? That's a bridge too far. He now reportedly lives in Delaware with friends of the Bidens, which is basically the same as saying "We sent him away to a farm up north."

While the quantity of incidents is pretty shocking, the severity of them is as well. These incidents weren't someone catching a Commander canine tooth on the hand while playing tug of war.

According to journalist John Greenewald of The Black Vault who obtained Secret Service documents detailing the two dozen incidents via a FOIA request, one incident left a floor covered in so much blood, that the White House had to throw a red flag (pun intended) and halt tours for 20 minutes while they cleaned up.

Can you imagine being on a tour of the White House and having it brought to a halt because of a Commander biting incident? 

"Just outside is the Rose Garden, started by First Lady Ellen Wilson. Down this hallway is where Richard Nixon shook hands with Elvis, but behind this door…. no wait, we can't go in there until they clean up all the blood."

In a way, it'd be kind of special. Not everyone gets one of those unique tours with that little curveball thrown in there. It's sort of like when you go to Disney's Hall of Presidents and the Millard Fillmore animatronic catches on fire. That's more interesting than the regular show.

The Bidens' dog, Commander, is a prime example of the importance of making sure that big, powerful dogs are well-trained. (Photo by Elizabeth Frantz for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

There Are Lessons To Be Learned From Biden's Commandergate

However, this nonsense at the White House should serve as a reminder that if you want to own a big, strong dog like a German Shepherd, you need to make sure you put in the effort to train them.

OutKick's own David Hookstead is big on this, and he couldn't be more right.

"I watched with my own eyes a German Shepherd take a chunk of a young girl's face off when I was a kid, I see pitbulls off leashes roaming the city of Washington D.C. daily and I see untrained dogs as one bad day away from a lawsuit or a tragedy," Hookstead said. 

"I've owned some big dogs over the years. Great dogs trained to hunt and protect. Loved them, and that's why it enrages me when I see clowns who buy potentially deadly dogs and don't spend the countless hours putting the work in. It's a danger to society and shouldn't be tolerated, and I say that as someone who loves dogs more than anyone I know."

Well, put. People seem to forget that pet dogs are only a few evolutionary steps removed from wolves. Wolves with hunting instincts.

The Biden administration's Commandergate is going to wind up as a funny footnote in presidential history. Like George Bush puking on the Prime Minister of Japan or that recording of Lyndon Johnson ordering pants and requesting a little extra space from "where the zipper *belch* ends, back to my bunghole."

But it's also another prime example of the administration's penchant for poor decision-making.