On September 19th, Donald Trump Jr. posted a tweet that enraged and upset many people. The picture featured a bowl full of Skittles with the caption: “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.”

Naturally a lot of people are very upset about this.

“I think its really rude,” said Sophomore Ellie Wolfe. “I feel like they are trying to dumb it down. But as they dumb it down they are getting a lot of the facts wrong.”

Wolfe felt the Tweet was vague. “It could be applied to anything. I feel like I get my information from actual statistics so I  know actual numbers, while this one they don’t have a statistic. ”

Shortly after being posted, many liberal-leaning websites started to deconstruct the statement. Conservative websites, as well as right-leaning students, have a differing viewpoint on the issue.

“To be honest I agree with this because the few ruin it for the many,” said Senior Donny Battimelli. “It says take a handful and only three could kill you, but those three could kill  hundreds. And also you don’t know which three it is unless you do deep research.”,

He continued, “You do have to feel sorry for the good people, but it comes to a point were it’s about national security and you have to protect your own country. It goes to show that you don’t know how it is, when it comes down to history in general a lot of people of the Syrian nation have ben associated with ISIS or other terrorist groups.”

Many on Twitter started posting pictures of Syrian children and told Trump Jr. that those were the people he was insulting.

Wrigley’s, the company who owns Skittles, said, “We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy. We will respectfully refrain from further commentary as anything we say could be misinterpreted as marketing.”

According to the New York Times, many on Twitter started posting pictures of Syrian children and told Trump Jr. that those were the people he was insulting.

In a The New York Times Article by Christine Hauser, she points out that the statement made by Donald Trump Jr may actually be  plagiarized from radio talk show host called Joe Walsh. Hauser wrote that Walsh, a former United States representative from Illinois, sent out an almost identical tweet a month before Trump Jr made his post.

Mr. Walsh doesn’t seem to made about it as he said on Twitter: “Hey @DonaldJTrumpJr, that’s the point I made last month. Glad you agree.”