Twitter Really Wants to Know Why Donald Trump Jr.’s Eyes Were So Red

Mediaite StaffAug 25th, 2020, 6:46 am
 

The Republican National Campaign opened on Monday night, and Donald Trump Jr. was the featured speaker who effectively closed the evening. The president’s son predictably praised his father’s management of the coronavirus outbreak, even as polls show Americans believe he has handled the pandemic poorly.

He also hit Democrats and their nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, in a remarkably dystopian way, saying, “They want to bully us into submission. If they get their way, it will no longer be the silent majority. It will be the silenced majority. This has to stop. Freedom of expression used to be a liberal value. At least before the radical left took over.”

None of that got the lion’s share of the attention on Twitter, and elsewhere it seems. CNN’s Dana Bash reported receiving numerous texts from Republican sources asking about Don Jr’s watery eyes (the clip of which you can see above via CNN.) And in blue checked quarters of the social media platform instead was focused on what appeared to be Don Jr’s bloodshot eyes, and perhaps manic energy. Or as Timothy Burke asked in the following clip, what is going on here:

You can see that Mr. Trump’s eyes do appear to be a bit off-color, which led to the following snark fest:

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