People think this dog looks like Ivanka Trump, and they're not wrong
Today in dogs that look like people: a pup that people seem to think – for better or for worse – resembles Ivanka Trump.
As Cosmopolitan notes, Twitter user @witchpuppy first tweeted the photo back on March 16. In the days since, the dog in the photo – with its long white hair and ears pulled back into a ponytail and its studded collar – has drawn comparisons to Trump.
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she is an influencer on youtube pic.twitter.com/0zP5aYtfIW
— francesca (@witchpuppy) March 16, 2018
omg Ivanka
— Shari (@dorkwad) March 16, 2018
— ⌜ 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝 ⌟ (@mpnrd) March 16, 2018
Why does this dog look EXACTLY like Ivanka Trump? pic.twitter.com/JgazsqocUu
— Dan (@Captain__DMan) March 18, 2018
Ivanka Trump's dog pic.twitter.com/e7GsgTlaO8
— James Doleman (@jamesdoleman) March 20, 2018
Sure, there is something similar in their hair styling and eye shape, but that's all there is to the resemblance. Still, once the internet makes a connection like that one, it's tough to un-see it.
Take, for example, the recent example of a dog that looked, to many online, exactly like actress Laura Dern of Big Little Lies.
This dog looks like Laura Dern https://t.co/3QI7eA41Zx pic.twitter.com/YIqkmJZKc8
— Margaret Lyons (@margeincharge) January 23, 2018
Should she have played Renata in Big Little Lies?! https://t.co/cLBwXG4FLT
— Laura Dern (@LauraDern) January 23, 2018
Back when Dern Dog was pulling in a ton of retweets, we reached out to Dr. Philip Muskin, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, who explained how the human brain's need to make quick assessments of our surroundings connects to something as silly as a dog with nice hair:
Does the dog from @witchpuppy's photo actually look like Trump? Maybe not. It's fun to consider, though.