Milbank: Donald Trump Jr. appears to be as dumb as a post

A tweet pinned to the top of Junior’s Twitter page says, “Life is hard; it’s even harder when you’re stupid.” And Junior should know. Some of his colleagues on the Trump campaign mocked him as “Fredo,” the weak son in “The Godfather.” Trump surrogate Chris Christie euphemistically described Junior as “by no means a sophisticated political actor.”

On Election Day in Virginia last week, Junior issued two tweets, hours apart, urging people to vote — “tomorrow,” the day after the election.

This week, as CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski noticed, irony eluded Junior when he “liked” a tweet discrediting one of Roy Moore’s accusers — because she “has had three divorces” and “filed for bankruptcy three times.”

The 39-year-old Trump once tried to make it on his own, but after a couple of his ventures fizzled, he signed on with Dad, whom Junior has been “helping” ever since. Such as in September 2016, when he posted an image featuring Pepe the Frog, a white-supremacist emblem. Junior pleaded ignorance: “I thought it was a frog in a wig.”

A number of Junior’s tweets over the years call people “morons” and “idiots” for their “unintelligible grammar” and poor spelling. Unfortunately, he routinely makes the same errors himself, sometimes in the tweets labeling others morons. When called on this, he explains, “I just let spelling and grammar go” or “spelling has never been a strong point.”

Lacking in strong points

What has been his strong point? Speaking up for the “moral teaching of the Bible” even though he previously boasted that he had some sexual “hookups I don’t remember.” Telling the public that “if ur a boob guy this whole lactation thing is amazing the sports bra the wife is wearing is losing the containment battle!!!”

His Twitter feed skews Low Playground, with vulgar words, jokes about bestiality and sexual assault and a quip about pretending to be gay so he can put his hands up women’s skirts. When he ventures into big-boy topics, he gets in trouble. On Twitter and in an interview at the time of former FBI director James B. Comey’s testimony, he inadvertently confirmed one of Comey’s points. In a campaign interview, Junior spoke of reporters “warming up the gas chamber” for Republicans.

In 2011, he tweeted about Rep. Frederica S. Wilson, D-Fla., wearing a cowboy hat but confused her for another black woman, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., which he spelled “Watters.” He wrote: “Easier 2 take u seriously when u dont (sic) look like a stripper.”

In September, Junior raised a ruckus when he said he didn’t want Secret Service protection. Security experts warned against this, and his protection has since been restored, but maybe Junior was safe all along.

Those who want to harm America might conclude that they would do more damage leaving Junior right where he is.