Over the weekend, Donald Trump Jr. posted what a “joke meme” with presumptive Democrat Presidential nominee Joe Biden waving with the words “see you later, alligator” on the top half and an alligator with the words “in a while, pedophile” on the bottom half.
In the caption, he made it clear that it was a joke by using three rolling on the floor laughing emojis and by saying “that said, there’s definitely way too many Creepy Joe videos out there!”
The New York Times took issue with the post, running with a story titled,
Donald Trump Jr. Smears Biden With Baseless Instagram Post. The beginning of the article read like a John Grisham novel. “Signaling the increasingly dark tactics of the Trump campaign, the president’s oldest son falsely accused Mr. Biden of preying on children,” it said.
Trump Jr. responded to criticism by saying that the emojis should indicate to “anyone with a scintilla of common sense” that he was “joking around.” He said though, that Biden should keep his hands to himself while sharing some well-known pictures of Biden touching young children.
1. The 3 (ROFL) emojis in the caption should indicate to anyone with a scintilla of common sense that I’m joking around. 2. If the media doesn’t want people mocking & making jokes about how creepy Joe is, then maybe he should stop the unwanted touching & keep his hands to himself?
1. The 3 ? emojis in the caption should indicate to anyone with a scintilla of common sense that I’m joking around.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 16, 2020
2. If the media doesn’t want people mocking & making jokes about how creepy Joe is, then maybe he should stop the unwanted touching & keep his hands to himself? https://t.co/Jy98aq6yWD pic.twitter.com/Kcr9jdPSbC
He later responded directly to the NYT by sharing a video of some of the interactions of Biden with children in the past.
The @nytimes is right. There’s NOTHING CREEPY at all about how @JoeBiden interacts with the kids in this 4+ min long video. All the touching & hair sniffing is TOTALLY APPROPRIATE & 100% NORMAL. Everyone does it! I’m a bad person for mocking him & thinking it’s disgusting!!!
The @nytimes is right. There’s NOTHING CREEPY at all about how @JoeBiden interacts with the kids in this 4+ min long video.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 16, 2020
All the touching & hair sniffing is TOTALLY APPROPRIATE & 100% NORMAL. Everyone does it!
I'm a bad person for mocking him & thinking it's disgusting!!!? pic.twitter.com/DgQOnaK8q6
After Biden called the accusations “sick,” Trump Jr. responded by posting another video and said that he “simply posted a joke meme, but based on all the touching and hair sniffing in the below video, I am 100% accusing you of being creepy as hell.”
And so your lackeys in the media don’t say I altered the video by not posting the full thing here’s the other half.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 20, 2020
Have a great evening. pic.twitter.com/eXDoIstUcQ
Biden had also said that Trump Jr. is his father’s son in a derogatory way and so Trump Jr. responded to that on Instagram by posting a series of pictures about Joe’s son, Hunter Biden. Trump Jr. said, “Since you want to bring sons into it Joe, why don’t we start with this… and there’s a lot more where that came from.”
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