NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration after two bombings in the New York area again sparked debate on the White House campaign trail Tuesday, as his son sparked a firestorm by comparing Syrian refugees to lethal candies.
“This is a question of quality of life,” Trump told a rally in key swing state Florida. “We want to make sure we are only admitting people in our country who love our country.”
Trump’s son Donald Jr, one of his surrogates on the campaign trail, has meanwhile courted controversy with a tweet comparing Syrian refugees to a bowl of multi-colored Skittles candy — some of them lethal, but not to the naked eye.
“This image says it all,” he said on Twitter, with a picture of a white bowl filled with the popular sweets. Written above the image is: “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That’s our Syria refugee problem.”
Trump Jr thus argued that it is too dangerous to welcome migrants when a tiny number of them could later launch attacks.