Donald Trump Jr has proven a hereditary ability to incite outrage, comparing Syrian refugees to the candies known as Skittles.
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– Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) September 20, 2016By that logic, you would take everyone’s guns away.
Tweeting an image with the “Make America Great Again” logo, he compared Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles.
Trump Jr. said the image “says it all” and that the USA must “end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first”.
Not only has the company that makes the fruit-flavoured sweets hit back, but in an ironic twist the photographer who took the photo Trump Jr. tweeted was himself a refugee.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
There are numerous problems with this meme: Number one, don’t take candy from strangers, especially when they look like Donald Trump Jr.
The White House announced last week that it wants to increase to 110,000 the number of refugees the US accepts in the next fiscal year.
The image, obviously professionally designed with some of the words in boldface, others not and the bowl of Skittles off center to balance the design, was unlike the stream of consciousness tweets from his dad.
Trump Jr. isn’t the first to equate a group of people to food – a trend that has no place in considerate language. Trump added, “This image says it all”.
Following last year’s terrorist attacks in Paris, Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”, which he later adjusted to immigrants from “terrorist nations”. “We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy”, Vice President of Corporate Affairs Denise Young said in the statement.
Mars Candy, the parent company of Skittles brand owner Wrigley, released a statement in response to Trump Jr.’s grotesque analogy.
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Last year, a picture of a deceased Syrian child being carried out of the Mediterranean Sea became a distressing face of the refugee crisis.
