Continuing to display a knack for knowing no lows, Donald Trump Jr. is once again facing backlash for saying something nobody else would ever think to say. This time, it came in the form of social media comments celebrating the destruction of a George Floyd mural in Toledo, Ohio.
The mural was struck by lightning, and the former president’s eldest son likely thought he was being pretty clever when he joked that it was an act of God “telling us something here.”
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“This will drive some people nuts but oh well,” Trump wrote on Instagram and Twitter alongside a photo of an article about the event. “I mean you have to wonder if someone, like a higher power, is telling us something here?!? Obviously what happened to George Floyd should never happen anywhere!!! That said, objectively speaking, given his history I’m not sure turning him into a deity and a role model for our children is exactly the right idea either. Also please don’t tell me they’re not trying to turn him into a role model/hero there’s statues of him going up all over the country etc. etc. The same lunatics who want to erase our founding fathers want statues of this man all over the place. Again, we can learn from a disastrous situation but the pendulum seems to always correct way too far these days.”
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We’re guessing when Trump Jr. says “lunatics who want to erase our founding fathers” he’s referring to the growing movement to remove Jim Crow-era monuments to Confederate Army leaders, none of whom are “founding fathers,” but we digress.
In the Instagram comments, he added: “I mean when was the last time you heard of a building being destroyed by lightning? A brick wall that’s not a conductor of electricity? This stuff really doesn’t happen that often.”
And over on Twitter he added, “I am a builder and I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of it.”
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The comments got plenty of response on Twitter, and folks really rolled their collective eyes at that “I’m a builder” part.
Here’s some of the reaction:
cutting up lines of coke doesn’t count as building something
— yimon (@yimonella) July 14, 2021
Tock tick tock tick tock tick tock pic.twitter.com/TOIqKFEPBR
— Mullen (@Moetboo) July 14, 2021
Tell me you're a racist without telling me you're a racist pic.twitter.com/ikihNdknWz
— Bryan ?? (@swimmerbr78) July 14, 2021
Your tweet tells us you’re a racist piece of shit.
— Edward Phillips (@tsoiliho) July 14, 2021
Narrator: Junior had never actually built anything. pic.twitter.com/CUEHNjD0V5
— Carolyn from Maryland (@carolyn_from) July 14, 2021
cutting up lines of coke doesn’t count as building something
— yimon (@yimonella) July 14, 2021
Higher power or higher powder.. ??? pic.twitter.com/Qxk7Ixv0c9
— Drain the traitors… (@LowMaga) July 14, 2021
“My Daddy says I’m a builder, too!” pic.twitter.com/UX82s8tmT0
— UdayandQusay (@UdayandQusay) July 14, 2021
If you are a builder, your father is a stable genius.
— lupus_popolus ???? ?? (@lupus_popolus) July 14, 2021
Let's get this straight: ur a hustler not a builder.
— JoanONo! Magnetized So Now I Know Where My Keys R (@mimilu) July 14, 2021
“I’m a scummy racist.”
There, I fixed your tweet.
— justdont (@DangGirllllll) July 14, 2021
whereshouldistart
The only thing this member of SLY AND THE FAMILY GRIFTERS has ever built is a reputation for being a GRIFTER…
and a LIAR
…and just another child his father will never love
…and an ADULTERER.
Shit. I need a nap.
marshal phillips
Lock Him Up and waterboard!
Cam
Trump Jr’s grandfather was arrested at a Klan meeting, Trump Jr’s father was sued and lost cases for racially discriminating against Black people in his rental units.
Of COURSE Trump Jr is racist and mocking George Floyd’s murder. Typical Republican.
JromeGervais09
He is a sociopath just like his sperm donor. This family’s story is the contents of a Stephen King novel. They usually burn in Hell.
GayEGO
Wow! Trump Jr looks wasted in the picture, he probably cannot face the upcoming trials he will be in due to his Trump Organization tax scams!
Ken A.
It’s a picture of him when he was sick and recovering from Covid.
Cam
@Ken A
It’s a photo of him from when he was crying about losing followers on Instagram for which he was mocked.
NateOcean
Ken A.:
Trump Jr. “Recovering from COVID”?
A disease that doesn’t exist?
A disease that is easily cured with disinfectant?
A disease that will peter-out after, perhaps, a dozen deaths?
That COVID?
brian6767
I am absolutely amazed at how much time and headlines you guys give to this family. You guys are the best PR firm for Trump! If you want them to go away, STOP REPORTING ON THEM EVERY OTHER DAY!
unreligious
Yes, I thought after they left the White House in disgrace, I figured I would not have to see headlines about them every day. No such luck.
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
Queerty, not reporting a trump story multiple times a week would leave them with nothing, do u think this internet rag would focus on the biden criminal enterprise with chief crook Hunter ….of course not. So they do what they do best deflect with trump trump trump…news flash he’s gone…go focus on something queens prefer like brittany or drag queens sheesh
Cam
@TheAbsoluteTRUTH
Nothing the same old right wing troll hates more than anti-LGBTQ Republicans being reported on. At least you didn’t bring out your MissTerri screename to defend the post this time.
Also, sweetie, if you’re so uninterested in the stories on Trump, why did you click the link, read the story and comment on it?
dali
@TheAbsoluteTRUTH
Wrong! Without Trump stories, Queerty would still have:
Real straight guys talking about their close calls to having gay sex.
Straight guys’ surprising answers to surveys about gay male sex.
Straight guys’ testimonies about having gay sex.
Women finding out about their straight boyfriends having gay sex. Do they care?
Straight guys wonder if watching gay porn might make them gay.
Do straight guys cuddling the homies (no homo) actually mean they’re gay?
Straight Hollywood star just got caught in a gay three-way. But who is he? We might never know.
A new study finds that straight males prefer eating their own love juices than those of their girlfriends.
See where I’m going with this?
SDR94103
the LAST thing I want to see on Queerty is this fockers face. GROSS
Inspector 57
Personally, I want to know what’s going on with this criminal family and I’m happy to read Queerty’s articles on them. They’re still a thing, unfortunately.
Mr. Stadnick
This isn’t an article there is little to no real writing in it. This is cut and paste, not unlike Perez Hilton’s “articles”.
Cam
The fact that the same old multi-screename right wing troll hates your reporting on the bigoted and criminal Trump family means it’s probably a great idea to keep reporting on them.
rbernard
We have to consider that these are the words of the drug addled spoiled unaccomplished spawn of the most criminal one term, twice impeached loser, our nation has ever had in its history.
Mehki
What a moron. Both my house and my sister’s house have been struck by lightening.
It hit my side wall with a loud boom and knocked everything off the shelves and burned out to my computer modem.
Mr sister’s case – same thing. Two different houses. Two different states.
And these lying, stealing, drug-taking amoral asswipes really need to get their fake non exsistent god out of their mouths, before they are struck by lightening.
There’s not a day that goes by where the Earth isn’t struck by lightning and trees, buildings, and people are always in danger of being struck by lightning.
Standing outside of the yard once while a lightning storm was going on, my brother was standing on the porch and I saw the lightning bolt come down and miss his foot by inches. Knocked him over and he said it felt like a big gust of wind.
This was in the South when most people turn out the lights and sit in the dark while a storm is happening. Of course we didn’t believe in this crap but when that happened we stayed indoors.
In my lifetime that’s three instances of lightning either hitting an object or almost hitting an object made of different materials.
What are the odds? Apparently better than hitting the lottery.
Folkers
I thought he was punking Ricky Gervais.