Skittles’ parent company, Wrigley Americas, was quick to swoop in and disavow any connection to Trump Jr.’s apparent stance on the issue. Refugees are people. We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy.
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“Thankful my grandfather was allowed into this country and not compared to a poisonous skittle”, Josh Schwerin, a national spokesman for Clinton, posted on Monday.
In response, Mars, Inc., sent a tweet that said simply, “Skittles are candy”.
The maker of Skittles sweets offers a blunt response to a social media post by Donald Trump Jr.in which he compares Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles.
– Jason Sparks (@sparksjls) September 20, 2016Even if we did bring in a few bad Skittles – and there’s no evidence we do – you take that risk to save these Skittles, you monstrous dope.
Mr Kittos posted the image in January 2010 to Flickr after using it to test lighting, and said the photo was used without his permission.
In a post published to Twitter on Monday evening, Trump Jr. warned against admitting Syrian refugees into the United States. Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first.
“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”.
Other Trump campaign higher-ups also on Tuesday defended Trump Jr.’s comments. In a November 17 interview on MSNBC, he asked, if there was a five-pound bag of peanuts and “there were about 10 peanuts that were deadly poisonous, would you feed them to your kids?” Last week, he was criticised for comparing the treatment his father has received from the media to a “gas chamber”.
Read the BBC’s entire interview with Kittos here.
Trevor Noah decides to use a Skittles reference of his own to explain some of the key shadiness about Trump’s campaign and business practices.
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“A nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself”, Obama declared without mentioning Trump by name or his proposed wall on the U.S. -Mexico border to stop immigrants coming from Latin American countries.
