Donald Trump's sons are no chip off the old block, as The Donald, who helped get the diving horse off the Atlantic City pier, is against hunting on ethical grounds. But Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are the targets of more media scrutiny than Barack Obama's birth certificate after pictures surfaced online of the pair posing with wild animals they had killed and big fat grins on their silly faces. The photos were taken while they were on a pay-as-you-go "canned hunting" safari in Zimbabwe. Each "trophy" was procured for a fee -- how macho is that?
Dressed as if to play extras in Rambo, the brothers posed for photographs, including one sick enough to make a grown man, other than a Go Daddy CEO, lose his lunch: Don holds his knife in one hand and the severed trunk of an elephant he's shot in the other. An elephant! In another photo, Eric sits atop a Cape buffalo, using the animal's corpse as a gun and hat rack. Another photo shows both brothers standing next to a massive crocodile whom the Great White Bwana Boys no doubt had "the help" hang up by a noose from a tree branch. In a joint statement, the brothers said, "We have the utmost respect for nature and have always hunted in accordance with local laws and regulations." If this conduct constitutes respect, I really don't want to know what their contempt looks like.
Attempting to defend their behavior, the brothers further declared, "As hunters, we eat everything we kill." Well, now, if they ate the whole cheetah, I'll eat my hat. And if they did, my hat won't kill me, but chances are the cheetah liver contains enough vitamin A to kill them, which might just improve the gene pool. "In addition," say the brothers, "all meat was donated to local villagers who were incredibly grateful." Of course, when millionaires breeze in, even to blow away the local fauna, most poor villagers hope for some crumbs from the table. However, if the Baby Trumps' selfless interest is to feed Zimbabweans, they could have spared themselves the grueling plane ride and just donated the money, including for the airfare and fees, to the hunt organizers so that the villagers could plant crops that would have continued to grow and provide food for years.
I shouldn't call it a "hunt," as they barely had to walk from their jeep to the photo opp. In fact, they paid at least a $2,795 trophy fee to kill a deer-like kudu and another $1,997 to kill a waterbuck, and who knows how many thousands more for the other living targets. Imagine how "incredibly grateful" any world hunger relief organization would have been to get a donation of that size. But, Anton Chekhov wrote, "while two idiots went home and sat down to dinner, there was one beautiful... creature less in the world." Well, a lot fewer in this case.
The Trump brothers' destructive little joyride to Africa is something that they should apologize for. It won't bring back the lives they took or redeem America's image among Africans and others, but it would show something they need desperately: some humility.
The privileged apples have fallen far from the tree. Donald Trump Sr., who has worked with PETA in the past, prefers to hunt for new entrepreneurial opportunities, not animals to kill. While The Donald is a dignified-enough dad not to blast his own progeny, he did say, "I am not a believer in hunting and I'm surprised they like it."
Hunters are often thought to be lacking in self-esteem and perhaps more, and writer Allison Blaney of CelebDirtyLaundry.com summed it up best: "One particularly grotesque picture shows Eric Trump holding up a severed elephant tail -- perhaps as a size comparison for what he is NOT packing in the pants."
Its time you hunters got educated.
You slander the age old traditon of the hunter and his quarry with false claims and statistics. People who don't know take your wild claims and your grotesque and gruesome descriptions pertaining to hunting and hunters as the truth. Your characterizations are FAR from complete and/or accurate.
You do the animals you profess to care so much about a huge disservice by demonizing their strongest advocate .
Sportsman, hunters, fisherman, and conservationists care enough to manage wildlife populatios and not leave them to the extreme cruelty of starvation and /or disease .
Hunters accept this responsibility and work to preserve habitat and do our best make quick kills that result in minimal suffering . We utilize the animal for food and /or clothing when appopriate and keep trophies to honor exceptionally diffucult hunts and /or exceptional specimens .
In your eyes that makes us villians but in the real world we arewildlifed best friend.
How can you say it would be better to let them starve or or die from diseases brought on by overpopulation???? Compassionate?? I think not.
You rant without evidence or reason .
NPS trapped 117 raccoons, 37 opossums, 26 minks, 33 nutria, 41 feral cats, eight coyotes, and one red fox. The feral cats were captured in live cages and taken to the County SPCA. The other animals were killed or euthanized.
And reasonable people have difficulty accepting why environmental groups, such as Defenders of Wildlife, don’t blink at eye at the number of animals that are killed to only minimally or modestly increase shorebird nesting success.
This killing is going on in America's National Parks every day in the name of preserving nature!!
It is obvious to me you know not of what you speak. You insult the intellegence of all conservationists who live with , utilize and or protect wildlife and their habitat all over the world.
It can be served as kabobs with pawpaw and sweetened bananas. Also popular is thin steaks drizzled with basil and garlic sauce and served with mango. Be sure not to overcook the meat as the moisture can cook away very quickly.
There are far more recipes for the crocodile's close cousin the alligator although the flavor of alligator is a bit stronger and less fishlike,
Cheers,
Presumably them Trump boys and Go Daddy Parsons sure loved them lip-smackin' Long Ribs BBQs.
"Long Ribs"? Google it.
This is also illegal since it's really a form of poaching. Isn't it? Or do those with money have such a delusion of entitlement, that they can do what they want with whom they want, wherever they want. Murder is murder and it's a crime nonetheless.
That's a lie. Among the animals they killed is a leopard, whose meat is not fit for human consumption.