Thus, Philip Bump of the Washington Post calculates, to contain three killer Skittles, the bowl in Trump Jr’s tweet ought to be filled with around 10.93 billion candies in total.
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The tweet, which has drawn public ire and unsurprisingly sparked a massive social-media backlash, claimed to be an analogy of “our Syrian refugee problem” that “says it all”. The graphic included the Trump-Pence insignia and the phrase “Make America Great Again!”
And it turns out the photographer who took the picture of the bowl of Skittles was once a refugee himself.
David Kittos, 48, from Guildford, England, uploaded the photograph to Flickr back in 2010 and woke up to find it had been used in the inflammatory tweet. “I would never approve the use of this image against refugees”.
He also told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that it would be unwise for his father to release his tax returns because it would “distract” from his father’s “main message”.
“Thankful my grandfather was allowed into this country and not compared to a poisonous skittle”, Josh Schwerin, a Clinton spokesman, posted on Monday.
But Mr Kittos’ image is listed under the “All Rights Reserved” license, which gives the owner full rights under copyright law.
“That’s not three poison Skittles in a bowl”, he said.
David Kittos said he woke up Tuesday morning to find his photo, which he shot in 2010 and posted under copyright protection on Flickr, had become a major story in the USA presidential campaign. “I don’t think he was comparing refugees to candy at all”, he said, saying some percentage of refugees are going to be “bad actors” without giving specific details.
“This isn’t about the money for me”, he told the BBC.
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He added: “Speaking the truth might upset those who would rather be politically correct than safe, but the American people want a change, and only Donald Trump will do what’s needed to protect us”. “They could have just bought a cheap image from a micro stock library”, Kittos said. “This is pure greed from them”, he says. “We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy”, Vice President of Corporate Affairs Denise Young said in the statement.
