Donald Trump Jr.’s Skittles Comparison Used to Be a Feminist Meme
The internet never forgets. It just remembers differently.
Donald Trump Jr. gestures to the crowd after delivering a speech on the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
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When Donald Trump Jr. compared refugees to a bowl of potentially poisonous Skittles, internet outrage ensued. Ben Grelle's anger was a little more personal.
The 35-year-old comedian from St. Louis, Missouri, coined an eerily similar slogan two years ago, and has seen versions of it rattle around the internet ever since.