And Kittos tells the BBC he was once a refugee himself. Skittles responded with some class and the photographer behind the image revealed his status as an immigrant, which meant nothing to the Trump campaign since they chose to stand by the image.
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Kittos, who is not an active Twitter user, was alerted to the theft of his image by friends. It’s marked with a copyright note: “All rights reserved”.
He captioned the post with: “This image says it all. Sending me a flickrmail to ask me first, isn’t exactly painful, is it now?”
“Donald Trump would have kicked my family out of the country”, said the man from swing state OH, identified as Mohamed G.
The Republican presidential nominee’s son prompted well-deserved criticism online after posting a graphic comparing the beleaguered people to poisonous candy.
Their calculations are based on the number of Americans killed by refugees between 1975 and the end of 2015, and put the risk at one in 3.64 billion per year.
Yesterday, he came to the discovery that the stock image he uploaded to Flickr in 2010 was being used by the Trump campaign to compare Syrian refugees to a bowl of Skittles laced with a few sweets that “would kill you”‘. The tweet went on: “That’s our Syrian refugee problem”.
“I have never put this image up for sale”. “This was not done with my permission, I don’t support his politics and I would never take his money to use it”, Kittos told the BBC. He was dismayed at finding the image used in the current refugee debate.
“Donald Trump Jr. was so excellent that my brain was already thinking, ‘What should we run him for?'” Trisha Turner, the president of the New York State Federation of Republican Women, told ABC News at the convention.
“We lived in the area of Cyprus that is now under Turkish military control”, he explained.
In a response to USA reporters, a representative for Skittles said: “Skittles are candy”.
“I’m really really appalled by having my image, you know, on Twitter used against the refugees”, said David Kittos, 48.
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“This isn’t about the money for me”.
