The Internet Savaged Donald Trump Jr.’s Off Base Appeal To Young Voters

Are they passionate? Yes. Will they cast votes for their God Emperor? Yes. Will that vote count come close to matching the seventy trillion insipid Pepe memes they’ve excreted thus far? Look, it ain’t likely. 

With that in mind, it’s apparently come down to the Trump children to reach out to a broader base of young Americans, and the latest attempt to woo that sweet demographic came from Donald Trump Jr. this morning.

Taking to Twitter (where else, really) the latest salvo of pro-Trump rhetoric focuses on the candidate’s supposed outsider status. Oh, and it comes with a corker of a family photo, to show they’re just like us:

This election is not about Republican vs Democrat it’s about insider vs outsider. It’s time for a change in DC! # pic.twitter.com/0wYBx8DOsp

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 2, 2016

The sheer audacity of that piccie, and how blatantly it tries to convince the average voter they’re not all that different, was set upon with predictable ferocity by, oh, anyone capable of parsing the image’s unintended subtext.

Noted Trump-stumper Chrissy Teigen was among the first to have a spray:

.@DonaldJTrumpJr yes I want a super outsider like someone who knows nothing about politics at all. My neighbor, Carl. He’s super outside.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 3, 2016

I want a president who is a super outsider. Someone who sings to sand and bats at branches and slaps at pavement. So outside and different

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 3, 2016

I want a president who takes toast out of a toaster with a butter knife because we all do it and it means I can be president

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 3, 2016

Partner (in crime) John Legend also weighed in:

@DonaldJTrumpJr this election is clearly about odd photos of candidates’ kids.

— John Legend (@johnlegend) September 3, 2016

From there, it was up to Judd Apatow to draw links to a pair of notorious brothers who killed their entertainment industry parents in the 80s:

How is Trump an outsider? Billionaires are outsiders? Is this a Menendez brothers biopic poster? https://t.co/zIxGBi304l

— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) September 3, 2016

And then came a torrent of users piling on the, uh, cinematic parallels the photo presented:

pic.twitter.com/GUDlPBLAcV

— Chris Regan (@ChrisRRegan) September 3, 2016

Obligatory #theylive. pic.twitter.com/y0ksKqhSHL

— Bryant Frazer (@deep_focus) September 3, 2016

This picture of the Trump kids looks like the VHS cover of a late 90s teen horror movie. pic.twitter.com/Q6DYoOC1PR

— pat tobin (@tastefactory) September 3, 2016

“Do you like Huey Lewis and The News?” pic.twitter.com/ZuKpVNTWtj

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) September 3, 2016

Just remember all the good the purge does. #MillennialsForTrump #StudentsForTrump #PurgersForTrump pic.twitter.com/VjDmd1MS1v

— Adam Frazier (@AdamFrazier) September 3, 2016

So, we guess if the campaign wanted to reach voters who idealise hyper-capitalist right wing satire… Job done.