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Donnie Junior must make Daddy proud.
It has become something of an online custom in the social media age to react to tragic news stories — like Wednesday’s attack in London — with well-meaning if sometimes rote messages like “thoughts and prayers.” But that does not appear to be Donald Trump Jr.’s style.
“You have to be kidding me?!” Mr. Trump said Wednesday afternoon on Twitter, as details of the episode — which left at least five dead, including the assailant, and 40 injured — continued to unfold. The message continued, “Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan.”
Mr. Trump, the oldest son of President Trump, was calling attention to an article from September in The Independent, a British newspaper, that described Mr. Khan’s reaction to a bombing then in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.
Which, oddly enough, was not a flip “oh well that’s life in the big city!” but rather an explanation of what kind of preparedness is necessary for a big city likely to face terrorist attacks.
Mr. Trump mischaracterized the London mayor’s remarks. Mr. Khan did not describe terrorism as “part of living in a big city,” as if bombings and shootings were an inescapable fact of life. He said that terrorism preparedness, including providing sufficient support to the police, was “part and parcel of living in a great global city.”
So young Donnie maligned the mayor of London because he didn’t bother to figure out what he’d said. Was it something about his name perhaps? “Sadiq Khan” struck him as a name that a London mayor shouldn’t have?
@DonaldJTrumpJr You use a terrorist attack on our city to attack London's Mayor for your own political gain. You're a disgrace.
— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) March 22, 2017
Is this helpful @DonaldJTrumpJr? Did you even read the article before goading London's Mayor during a live incident?https://t.co/Sm68UOcJQG
— Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) March 22, 2017
The Times reporter, Liam Stack, apparently emailed young Donnie to ask him why he’s such an asshole.
Mr. Trump declined to elaborate later on Wednesday. “I’m not going to comment on every tweet I send,” he said in an email.
Attaboy young Donnie. Send out insulting tweets based on your own incomprehension and ignorance, and then refuse to withdraw or apologize. Just like Daddy.
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appleturd doesn’t fall far from thetreearsehole.No need to comment on every tweet you send, only on the ones where you act like an asshole and misreport facts for political gain. And exploit a global tragedy for your own ends.
That may still have him needing to comment on every tweet he sends.
What, too busy hiring underpaid foreign workers to work in your vineyard? How about not being an arsehole and paying local workers a living wage and doing a modicum of research before blurting your tweets.