The son of the GOP presidential candidate tweeted an appealing photo of a bowl of the multi-hued candy, writing, “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you”.
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Then on Tuesday morning, Trump Jr. linked to a news article posted on the conservative news site Breitbart with the incendiary headline: “Europe’s Rape Epidemic: Western Women Will Be Sacrificed at the Altar of Mass Migration”. “Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first”.
Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton, tweeted: “This is disgusting”.
Denise Young, a spokeswoman for Skittles, said in a statement “Skittles are candy”.
But the maker of Skittles has just delivered a brand management master lesson, according to one expert, after it was dragged into the heated debate around granting asylum to Syrian refugees.
As an Augustinian university, students should practice love and acceptance, and therefore should consider refugees as people like us before anything else.
Trump Jr.’s tweet repeats an analogy that has been on the internet for years, using M&Ms and other foods, and targeting a variety of groups.
Corden next pointed out that the picture used in the meme was taken by a former refugee from Cyprus. And they come all together in a bag together, right? “The answer is no”.
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday that United States immigration policy needs to be stricter, in the wake of recent attacks in the country suspected to have been carried out by immigrants.
He recently shared a Twitter post by Kevin MacDonald, a psychologist who has written about “Jewish influence” for a website devoted to “white identity, interests and culture” and who has testified on behalf of a Holocaust denier. The elder Trump has repeatedly said the reason he has not released his returns is because they are being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. It’s nearly inevitable, then, that most Villanovans saw Donald Trump’s tweet comparing skittles and refugees this past Tuesday. But one bomb goes off in a dumpster and kills no one, and all of sudden there are calls to stop accepting refugees from Muslim nations.
Like many of us, Stephen Colbert was both horrified and intrigued. This would be in addition to the tens of thousands of refugees accepted from around the world every year.
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He said he was uncertain about whether he’d take legal action. Obama pledged the USA would accept 10,000 Syrians this budget year, which ends September 30, and achieved that number a month early.
