Skittles have responded to the Trump campaign’s very bad Syrian refugee analogy

On Monday evening, Donald Trump Jr. riled up the internet with a ridiculous meme, comparing the country’s current Syrian refugee situation to a bowl of Skittles, and since then utter madness unfolded.

On Monday, Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr, sought to explain his father’s tough policy on refugees and terror by comparing the issues to rainbow-coloured candies.

Trump Jr. posted on his social media account Monday the image of a bowl of multicolored sweets called Skittles.

Thanks to Trump Jr.’s tweet – which carried official Trump/Pence branding – Skittles surged to the top of Twitter’s trending topics list Monday night, with numerous tweets pointing out precisely what Wrigley Americas said: Refugees are people.

Donald Trump Jr., son of Donald Trump, speaks on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on July 19, 2016.

“We’re allowing these people to come into our country and destroy our country and make it unsafe”, Trump said Monday on “Fox and Friends”. “That’s our Syria refugee problem”.

Though Trump Jr. hasn’t clarified how the image got to him, Kittos posted the photo on his Flickr account in 2010. Trump Jr. further editorialized in his tweet, saying “Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first”. “We don’t feel it is an appropriate analogy”, the company said. “Would you take a handful?” it reads. Last week, he made what some took as a Holocaust-themed joke in an interview with a Philadelphia radio station, referring to “warming up the gas chamber”.

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According to the Chicago Tribune, Walsh told Chicago Inc.

Significantly more terrorists have been admitted to the United States either as lawful permanent residents or on tourist visas – 54 and 34, respectively – posing a legitimate risk, the Cato report states.

Trump Wants “Extreme Vetting” for Refugees. Clinton has called for an increase in the number of Syrian refugees the United States should accept and Trump has called for “extreme vetting” of immigrants, as well as a ban on immigrants from countries that are hotbeds of terrorism, such as Syria.

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Clinton has said she would expand President Barack Obama’s refugee program to accept about 65,000 Syrian refugees.