Last night, the San Francisco Giants played their arch-rivals, the LA Dodgers and beat them 2-0. But the big news this morning is from Monday night’s game, and it’s not about the Bumgarner/Puig fight.
No, it’s the unfortunate tweet sent by the Giants’ new Social Media Intern, Donald Trump, Jr.
Now, a lot of you are probably saying to yourselves, “Jesus Christ, why are you being so goddam politically correct, bro? A ‘K’ is a strikeout in the scorebook, and the dude’s name is Kiké and Mad-Bum struck him out 3 times!”
Okay, yes, I get that. I know how Baseball works, champ. But at the very least he could have added the accent on the end of Kiké so that it didn’t look like an anti-semitic slur. At the very least.
And then you’re probably asking yourself, “Well, how do you know it was Donald Trump, Jr.? I mean he has a job working for the old man, and he’s probably a Yankees fan like his dad anyway, or maybe a Red Sox fan because he shares similar taste in memes with Curt Schilling.”
Well, I don’t know for sure that Donald Trump, Jr. is working as the social media intern for the San Francisco Giants, but I made that deduction based on the similarity of the “KKKike” tweet and some of the things Donald Trump, Jr. has tweeted.
Let’s start with the most recent controversial tweet, The Skittles Tweet, an analogy which can be credibly traced to a book for Nazi schoolchildren:
This image says it all. Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first. #trump2016pic.twitter.com/9fHwog7ssN
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 19, 2016
Then there was his “gas chamber” comment, which a lot of people took to be a reference to the Holocaust. At first, I was skeptical of this one, I took it to be a reference to capital punishment. Maybe that’s because I grew up in California where that was still how they did it. But enough people, including a number of actual neo-nazis, took it as a Holocaust reference, so where there’s…um…if it walks like a duck, etc…
He posted a photo featuring himself and his dad and Pepe the Frog, the alt-right’s favorite Nazi Meme on Instagram. He retweets a lot of white supremacists.
It’s simple logic, really: Donald Trump, Jr., tweets out anti-semitic memes. The Giants sent out an anti-semitic tweet. Donald Trump, Jr. is in charge of the Giants Twitter account, QED.
