Don Trump Jr. Is a Sucker for a Good Conspiracy Theory--Or Any Theory, Really
Don Trump Jr. Is a Sucker for a Good Conspiracy Theory—Or Any Theory, Really
Benghazi, Hillary's emails, #fakenews, Obama's wiretaps—Don Trump Jr.'s Twitter feed goes full truther.
ERIN GLORIA RYAN
06.02.17 2:45 PM ET
In a fledgling autocracy, every family member gets a role. King Donald gets to sign things and sit behind a fancy desk and give speeches in front of flags and fondle glowing orbs. Princess Ivanka gets to have her champagne popsicles and eat them too, a trusted advisor who never seems to successfully enact any of the items her press coverage implies are on her whispered agenda. Jared, the royal vizier, husband of Ivanka, has been elevated to a status above Donald’s biological sons because Donald is obsessed with image and Jared looks better in a suit and has a better chin. Queen Melania stays locked in her tower, by all accounts a devoted mother to her young son, occasionally popping out for just long enough to remind us that she hates her husband.
That leaves Donald’s two large sons to serve their father elsewhere. Eric, flesh colored from the bottom of his feet to the top of his slicked down dome, helps run the Trump Organization. So does Don Jr., the angrier, dark-haired one, the one who always seems like he’s just five minutes from either end of a bar fight.
Don Jr. doesn’t have a political role in the White House. In fact, he’s supposed to be staying out of politics to protect his father’s administration from even the appearance of impropriety (ha ha). But for a guy who doesn’t work in politics, Don Jr. sure spends a lot of time and energy disseminating his political opinions.
A trip through the rich tinfoil tapestry Donald Trump Jr. has spun on Twitter reveals a portrait of a man who, at least online, is deeply committed to furthering the right wing theory du jour. He’s a human subreddit, a wide-eyed disseminator of stories that further an agenda that doesn’t seem to have many policy positions beyond viewing the Trump administration and its sycophants as the sole arbiters of truth. He’s Infowars in a suit. If Ivanka is the First Daughter (poor Tiffany) and Jared is the President-in-Law, Donald Jr. is America’s First Deplorable.
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