Donald Trump Jr References Mao, Ayatollah As He Protests Father’s Suspension From Twitter

It is an ignominious end to what has been a rather turbulent,
yet historic Presidency. With less than two weeks left for his
tenure to end, US President Donald Trump has been cut off from
access to most of his social media accounts.

On Twitter his account has been “suspended” and on Facebook and
Instagram, he remains ‘indefinitely’ banned. And even as many
rejoice, others including fellow Republican leaders have hit out at
the big tech firms.

Perhaps the most vocal critics have been members of Trump’s
family – with his son Donald Trump Junior even wondering why
dictatorial regimes continued to find representation on Twitter
even as his father was booted out. “So the Ayatollah, and numerous
other dictatorial regimes can have Twitter accounts with no issue
despite threatening genocide to entire countries and killing
homosexuals etc… but The President of the United States should be
permanently suspended. Mao would be proud,” he tweeted.

Over the last few days, Trump’s family has come out en masse to
defend him or to comment on current events. However, their efforts
have proved somewhat problematic. In a now deleted tweet Ivanka
Trump had urged “American patriots” to remain non-violent.

“American Patriots – any security breach or disrespect to our
law enforcement is unacceptable,” she had tweeted. Called out by
another user, she clarified that while peaceful protest was
patriotic, violence was “unacceptable”.

And Eric Trump has been facing flak after he tweeted out his
delight at having hundreds of thousands of right-wing pro-Trump
protesters sing “Happy Birthday” to him on the National Mall. He
posted a photo marking the occasion – a tweet that remains on his
handle.

Needless to say, many are baffled by the latest post, wondering
if Don Jr. had been drawing a parallel between Trump and the
leaders of “dictatorial regimes”. But the Ayatollah references are
not limited to this one post.

In a tweeted diatribe against big tech companies, Senator
Lindsey Graham said that he was willing to risk being banned by
Twitter to air his opinion that the action against Trump was a
“serious mistake”.

“The Ayatollah can tweet, but Trump can’t. Says a lot about the
people who run Twitter,” he tweeted.

It is an ignominious end to what has been a rather turbulent,
yet historic Presidency. With less than two weeks left for his
tenure to end, US President Donald Trump has been cut off from
access to most of his social media accounts.

On Twitter his account has been “suspended” and on Facebook and
Instagram, he remains ‘indefinitely’ banned. And even as many
rejoice, others including fellow Republican leaders have hit out at
the big tech firms.

Perhaps the most vocal critics have been members of Trump’s
family – with his son Donald Trump Junior even wondering why
dictatorial regimes continued to find representation on Twitter
even as his father was booted out. “So the Ayatollah, and numerous
other dictatorial regimes can have Twitter accounts with no issue
despite threatening genocide to entire countries and killing
homosexuals etc… but The President of the United States should be
permanently suspended. Mao would be proud,” he tweeted.

Over the last few days, Trump’s family has come out en masse to
defend him or to comment on current events. However, their efforts
have proved somewhat problematic. In a now deleted tweet Ivanka
Trump had urged “American patriots” to remain non-violent.

“American Patriots – any security breach or disrespect to our
law enforcement is unacceptable,” she had tweeted. Called out by
another user, she clarified that while peaceful protest was
patriotic, violence was “unacceptable”.

And Eric Trump has been facing flak after he tweeted out his
delight at having hundreds of thousands of right-wing pro-Trump
protesters sing “Happy Birthday” to him on the National Mall. He
posted a photo marking the occasion – a tweet that remains on his
handle.

Needless to say, many are baffled by the latest post, wondering
if Don Jr. had been drawing a parallel between Trump and the
leaders of “dictatorial regimes”. But the Ayatollah references are
not limited to this one post.

In a tweeted diatribe against big tech companies, Senator
Lindsey Graham said that he was willing to risk being banned by
Twitter to air his opinion that the action against Trump was a
“serious mistake”.

“The Ayatollah can tweet, but Trump can’t. Says a lot about the
people who run Twitter,” he tweeted.