From
USA Today:, an
article by
Steph Solis about
Trump, Junior:
Donald Trump's appearance on Monday in Estero, Florida got eclipsed by comments made by his son, Donald Trump Jr., about Syrian refugees.
Tweeting an image with the Make America Great Again logo, he compared Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles. The caption reads: "The image says it all. Let's end the politically correct agenda that doesn't put America first."
The message echoes the elder Trump's comments about curbing immigration to the United States, including tactics such as immigration bans from "compromised" nations. Trump also came down hard on Clinton when she supported accepting thousands of more refugees into the country.
The US accepted its ten-thousandth Syrian refugee in late August of 2016 and plans to accept at least a hundred thousand more refugees in the fiscal year 2017, a White House official said.
Also worth noting, Obama plans to convene a Refugee Summit on Tuesday involving leaders from Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, Jordan, Mexico, and Sweden. His goal? To secure agreements for food aid and to double the number of refugees resettled in third countries each year.
The younger Trump's tweet didn't go over well. Dozens of people, if not more, jumped into the younger Trump's mentions, blasting him for trivializing the plight of the refugees and promoting racial profiling. Thousands more hammered Trump for his Skittles analogy, making it a trending topic on Twitter, with ninety thousand tweets and counting...
Rico says the apple (however stupid) doesn't fall far from the tree. (And surely the makers of
Skittles have a defamation lawsuit pending.)
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