By Daniella Diaz CNN
Donald Trump Jr., Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s son, tweeted a graphic on Tuesday that likened Syrian refugees to Skittles, which was swiftly met with criticism.
“This image says it all. Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first. #trump2016,” he tweeted, with a graphic that said: “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem.”
The graphic had an official Trump logo that the Republican nominee shares with his running mate, Mike Pence.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign spokesman Nick Merrill retweeted Trump Jr. adding: “This is disgusting.”
One of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters responded to Trump Jr. with a link to CNN reporting about a little boy in Aleppo, Syria who became the face of the humanitarian crises in Syria.
“Hey @DonaldJTrumpJr, this is one of the millions of children you compared to a poisoned Skittle today,” Jon Favreau tweeted.
Former Obama campaign staffer, Jason Sparks, tweeted at Trump Jr. photos of the Syrian refugee children in the crises and said: “These aren’t Skittles, @DonaldJTrumpJr.”
And musician John Legend, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump on Twitter, wrote: “There’s a tiny chance that anyone could be a murderer. Get rid of everyone now!!! #trumplogic”
Legend also retweeted a photo of the Aleppo boy, where someone said: “This is not a skittle.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Last week, Trump Jr. was criticized for making a “gas chamber” reference when complaining about how the treatment his father has received form the media compared to the coverage from Clinton.
“They’ve let her slide on every discrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of the thing,” he said. “I mean, if Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now. It’s a very different system — there’s nothing fair about it.”
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