When Donald Trump Jr. compared Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles, the condemnation was swift – critics called the tweet glib, dehumanizing, inaccurate, cruel.
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The scion of America’s most soiled real estate brand tweeted an image of a bowl of Skittles, accompanied by an ominous caption.
In his tweet, the son of the Republican presidential candidate used an image of a bowl of Skittles with the accompanying text: “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?” “I would never approve the use of this image against refugees”.
According to the BBC, the photographer who took the Skittles photo and posted it on Flickr has revealed himself as a refugee and is not happy with Trump. “We had to leave everything behind overnight”, says Kittos, who is now a British citizen. He does not use Twitter and was told about Trump’s controversial tweet by friends on Tuesday. “Our property and our possessions”.
Kittos said he took the photo in 2010 to practice flash techniques. When host Erin Burnett asked if Conway was “at all concerned that Trump may have broken the law”, she responded, “No, and I would point out that in the second paragraph of that story that you mention, Erin, it says ‘may have” and later on in the story it says “the IRS may want to look into it, ‘ but of course they haven’t”. “They should not be stealing an image full stop”.
Another problem with Trump Jr.’s meme? Although Miller said the Post has “their facts wrong”, the statement did not dispute any facts, nor did it explain how “there was not, and could not be, any intent or motive for the Trump Foundation to make improper payments”.
That’s because the odds of getting killed by a refugee terrorist in the United States is 1 in 3.64 billion each year, according to Cato Institute data.
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Thus, Philip Bump of the Washington Post calculates, to contain three killer Skittles, the bowl in Trump Jr’s tweet ought to be filled with around 10.93 billion candies in total.
