Shortly before President Trump spoke at his El Paso, Texas, rally Monday night, Donald Trump Jr. was warming up the crowd.
When he saw young people in the audience he told them to “keep up that fight, bring it to your schools.” He added, “You don’t have to be indoctrinated by these loser teachers that are trying to sell you on socialism from birth.”
Trump Jr. has a history of commenting on the Left’s takeover of higher education and is pals with campus-organizer-turned-Trump-fanatic Charlie Kirk. He even wrote a five-page forward to Kirk’s book: Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters. “Please enjoy this book, share it with your friends, support Turning Point USA, and get involved,” Trump Jr. wrote.
At a convention gathering of a thousand young conservative activists in December, Trump Jr. called the conservative students the “true rebels.” The student group backing the Trump family is well-known for a strange incident where student activists wore diapers to protest safe spaces, as well as its Professor Watchlist where “loser teachers” who push socialism or other radical agendas in the classroom are cataloged and condemned.
In his El Paso rally speech, Trump Jr. also mocked those at the Beto O’Rourke rally nearby. He said it would be dangerous to chant “USA” in the midst of the Democratic rally, remarking, “I don’t know what would happen to you, but it wouldn’t be good!”
Alexander James is a contributor to Red Alert Politics and a freelance journalist.
