Trump Jr. tweeted the image Monday, saying, “If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you”. Assuming that three of said Skittles could kill you, eating a handful from this tiny bowl would, indeed, be risky.
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In a single tweet, Donald Trump Jr. reduced 4.8 million suffering refugees to Skittles-but the candy-maker isn’t having it.
Even Skittles parent company Wrigley Americas weighed in on Trump’s tweet with a statement from Vice President of Corporate Affairs Denise Young. It is one of Warren County’s biggest employers.
While Trump Jr.’s tweet shocked users across the platform, according to Yahoo a notable figure in the Republican Party made a similar statement a year ago. “Refugees are people. We don’t feel it is an appropriate analogy”.
Others were more direct in their response, posting graphic images of Syrian refugees and writing, “Not a Skittle”. Kittos says he is unsure whether he will file a legal complaint over his photo’s misuse, but he would instead like to see the Trump campaign do away with the image on its own. You’re right, they’re way too unsafe. Conway added later, “I’ve been talking to the people who are responsible for the Trump Foundation today, trying to get some facts and some figures”, and that monies “were misdirected to his foundation; I’m told by his accountants and attorneys, they went to the right foundation after that”. “The answer is no”.
Ironically, however, the tweet attempting to justify Trump’s harsh anti-refugee policies wouldn’t have been possible without the talent of refugees. He has denied he was alluding to the Holocaust. The elder Trump has repeatedly said the reason he has not released his returns is because they are being audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
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. Tuesday that “Muslim countries have to stand up and do more”. “That’s our Syria refugee problem”.
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The photo featured in the tweet was taken, without permission or credit, from a man named David Kittos. The United Nations estimates the Syrian civil war has forced almost five million Syrians to flee the country in more than five years of civil war. Obama pledged the US would accept 10,000 Syrians this budget year, which ends September 30, and achieved that number a month early.
