“Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first”.
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His friends alerted him to the fact his picture had been used, and he has emphasised he did not give permission for its use. David Kittos, who posted the image on Flickr six years ago under an “all rights reserved” licence, fled as a child from the Turkish occupation of Cyprus.
“This was not done with my permission, I don’t support his politics and I would never take his money to use it”, Mr Kittos told the BBC.
“I would like the Trump campaign to delete the image, but they are probably not interested in what I have to say”, Mr Kittos said. (Answer: Of course you would, but the analogy makes it scary.) Yesterday, it was Donald Trump Jr.’s turn to trot it out in an effort to simplify his father’s message around Syrian refugees. We lived in the area of Cyprus that is now under Turkish military control. “We had to leave everything behind overnight”, says Kittos, who is now a British citizen. “Our property and our possessions”. “So that’s not three poisoned skittles in a bowl, that’s three poisoned skittles in one and a half Olympic sized pools of skittles”.
Skittles maker Wm. Wrigley Jr also criticised the use of its product for the post, saying it was not appropriate.
He said he thought about getting lawyers involved but didn’t know if he had the patience. They could have just bought a cheap image from a micro stock library. “And yes, for the record, I would eat all of them”.
“Skittles are candy. Refugees are people”, Vice President of Corporate Affairs Denise Young said in a statement.
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Trump (Senior, yes, it’s confusing because they’re all atrocious) has previously called for a ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S. and on resettling refugees from the Syrian war, most recently attempting to tie a bombing in New York City to the refugee crisis.
