“Skittles are candy. Refugees are people”.
Advertisement
Kittos wants Trump Jr. and the Trump campaign to stop using his photo.
Only former Congressman Joe Walsh would take credit for one of the most incendiary tweets of the past year.
Not only does he promise that Mexico will pay for a wall along the border with the United States, he told a crowd in North Carolina on Tuesday that Arab countries would fund safe zones in the Middle East for Syrian refugees. “We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy”.
If he could talk to Donald Trump, Kittos said he would ask him to apologize to Syrian refugees.
“America has become less safe under Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and Clinton’s planned 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees is a risky proposal that will put American lives at risk”, the campaign’s senior communications adviser, Jason Miller, said in a statement. His administration announced in August that it would meet that goal.
The image was used as a metaphor for the refugee situation, with text reading, “If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?” The idea that immigrants from the Muslim world can spread terror in the U.S.is a central theme of Trump’s campaign and one he’s sought to underscore after the bombings in NY and New Jersey, which authorities believe were carried out by an Afghan immigrant.
“Thankful my grandfather was allowed into this country and not compared to a poisonous skittle”, Josh Schwerin, a Clinton spokesman, posted on Monday.
Skittles responded to Trump Jr.’s tweet in a statement obtained by NBC News Tuesday.
Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, hit back at the Skittles criticism in an NBC News interview.
A year ago, Clinton said she supported the admission of 65,000 Syrian refugees.
Not only has the company that makes the fruit-flavoured sweets hit back, but in an ironic twist the photographer who took the photo Trump Jr. tweeted was himself a refugee.
“What he was doing was making an illustration”.
Advertisement
The hashtag #SkittlesWelcome was trending on Twitter in the United States, as social media users mocked the tweet.
