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hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 05:28 PM Sep 2016

CNN Opinion Piece on the Young Trumps

From Pregnancy to Skittles, the Trump kids show their roots:

From the article:

"Besides trivializing the plight innocent displaced by war, Trump's flippant tweet gets the math wrong. The risk of being killed by a refugee has been credibly estimated as 1 in 3.6 billion per year. The Washington Post says this number of Skittles would fill one and a half Olympic swimming pools.

Seen in this light, Trump Jr's comments make him much like his father, who at times has advocated deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants by force. Trump Jr. suggests that Americans abandon a moral duty and seek the supposed safety of isolation. This hasn't gone over well, as even the candy's manufacturer noted, "Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don't feel it's an appropriate analogy."


More at this link:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/18/opinions/trump-kids-motivation-dantonio/index.html

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CNN Opinion Piece on the Young Trumps (Original Post) hamsterjill Sep 2016 OP
Translation: madaboutharry Sep 2016 #1
all you need to do is look at their faces: Gabi Hayes Sep 2016 #2

madaboutharry

(40,203 posts)
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Tue Sep 20, 2016, 06:58 PM
Sep 2016

Trump's eldest kids are entitled spoiled brats who live in a bubble of privilege and are completely clueless about the real word. And yeah, they're as phony and thin skinned as their father.

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