Trump Jr’s Bad, Bad Tweet About London Has Copped The Response It Deserves

After this morning’s awful terror attack in London, which left four dead and over 20 injured, Trump took to the tweets to dig into Mayor Sadiq Khan for an old interview in which he allegedly said that “terror attacks are part of living in big city”.

You have to be kidding me?!: Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan https://t.co/uSm2pwRTjO

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 22, 2017

Surely no reason why Trump would dig up a 6-month-old interview literally hours after an attack, right? People immediately jumped onto him for politicising the attack:

@DonaldJTrumpJr Go fuck yourself. As a Londoner who lived through the IRA, anti gay nail bombings and 7/7, this is not the time to be cock.

— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) March 22, 2017

@DonaldJTrumpJr Seriously, delete this nonsense before it gets you into a world of trouble, you fucking idiot.

— Mike P Williams (@Mike_P_Williams) March 22, 2017

@DonaldJTrumpJr @Independent learn to read the article not just the headline you tangerine goblin spawn

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) March 22, 2017

Any close read of the article Trump just casually posted would show that this wasn’t what Khan said. He wasn’t suggesting that Londoners just suck it up and get over it. He was saying that they were “part and parcel” of living in a big city, and that Londoners had to be vigilant.

@DonaldJTrumpJr You use a terrorist attack on our city to attack London’s Mayor for your own political gain. You’re a disgrace.

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) March 22, 2017

Clam up, mate.