Donald Trump Jr. sparked outrage after comparing Syrian refugees to poisonous Skittles in a tweet on Monday, September 19.
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If he could talk to Donald Trump, Kittos said he would ask him to apologize to Syrian refugees. “Would you take a handful?” it reads.
“This was six years ago when there were no Syrian refugees at the time, and it was never done with the intention of spreading a political message”, said Kittos, who is now a British citizen.
A spokeswoman for Skittles maker Wm. “We don’t feel it is an appropriate analogy”, the company said. “Skittles are candy. Refugees are people”, the firm said in a statement. Tuesday that “Muslim countries have to stand up and do more”.
Donald Trump has called for a suspension of the Syrian refugee resettlement program, charging that it endangers USA national security.
Meet a family of Syrian refugees who are adjusting to a new life in Canada. His administration announced in August that it would meet that goal.
At a rally Tuesday in North Carolina, Trump supporter Pam Guy, who runs a pharmacy with her husband in Thomasville, brushed off the fuss over the Skittles tweet. “As in: ‘If you think that is a complete sentence, you must have your head up your”.
Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, hit back at the Skittles criticism in an NBC News interview.
David Kittos, 48, from Guildford, posted the image to Flickr in January 2010 which was used this week by the son of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as an analogy for refugees.
The former USA secretary of state has not updated that figure in recent months but says all refugees should be vetted. Clinton said she would continue with the vetting now in place, an effort that can take multiple years to complete.
Only former Congressman Joe Walsh would take credit for one of the most incendiary tweets of the past year.
“What he was doing was making an illustration. And yes, for the record, I would eat all of them”.
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Kittos came out against Trump’s tweet on Monday, saying that he had not authorized his photo’s use.
