IT’S BEEN A ROUGH WEEK FOR TRUMPSPAWN. On Monday, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out this image along with the dreamlogic reasoning: “This image says it all. Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first. #trump2016.” The tweet prompted Wrigley, the candy’s producer, to issue the following statement: “Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy. We will respectfully refrain from further commentary as anything we say could be misinterpreted as marketing.”

BBC News discovered that the photographer of the bowl of Skittles was himself a refugee, who awoke to find his photograph used without his permission. Photographer David Kittos told the BBC: “In 1974, when I was six years old, I was a refugee from the Turkish occupation of Cyprus so I would never approve the use of this image against refugees.” Gothamist also notes that the strained Skittles-refugee analogy is simply a variation of the story of ‘The Poisonous Mushroom’ found in an anti-Semitic children’s book whose author was later executed in the Nuremberg Trials as a war criminal.