If you click below you will see the photo with the water buffalo which the intrepid brave hunter and dimwitted son of the president with aspirations to be his successor killed with a high power scoped rifle. If prefer not to see it and understand that many of you aren’t enamored with seeing beautiful dead wild animals.
When I first skimmed this article I misread Safari Club International for Sierra Club and thought “Holy F, are they going to get away with this!?!?” It is NOT the Sierra Club, thank goodness, they have not gone mad with Trump Fever.
Here’s the gist of the Guardian article:
Other prizes include the chance to shoot an elephant on a 14-day trip in Namibia, an all-inclusive hunt package to Zimbabwe to kill buffalo, giraffe and wildebeest, and a 10-day crocodile hunting expedition in South Africa. The proceeds from the auction, which campaigners say could exceed $5m, will fund SCI’s “hunter advocacy and wildlife conservation efforts”, according to the organization.
Thousands of hunters from around the world are expected to attend the convention which begins on Wednesday, where Trump Jr, an avid trophy hunter, is set to give a keynote address.
The description of the auction prize states: “This year we will be featuring Donald Trump Jr, a man who needs no introduction, and whose passion for the outdoors makes him the number one ambassador for our way of life.
“Don Jr shares this heritage with his son and believes in handing down these lessons to young hunters. Don Jr and his son will be hosting this year’s hunt along with Keegan [the guide] in Alaska.”
You may recall that Donald Trump Jr killed rare endangered sheep in Mongolia with a special permit which was retroactively issued after this went public.
The story gets more interesting:
Brian Wilson and Al Jardine have backed a boycott of their former band the Beach Boys, who are booked to perform at an event organised by hunting group Safari Club International.
Wilson and Jardine are not part of the band currently touring under the Beach Boys name, which features only one founding member, Mike Love. Wilson tweeted: “This organisation supports trophy hunting, which both Al and I are emphatically opposed to. There’s nothing we can do personally to stop the show, so please join us in signing the petition.”
There’s a change.org petition “Tell the Beach Boys to Say No to Trophy Hunting!” (text in first comment) which features the photo of the two Trump elder son’s happily posing with a dead leopard (right). I know they want to shock us, but it still bothers me to see these photos.
Like these two Rambo Wannabes care what snowflakes like us think about blowing away beautiful living animals which they think are best suited for being stuffed and displayed in their trophy rooms.
I have to wonder whether the stuffed lion that we’ve all seen in the famous (or infamous) warm and fuzzy family photo of Mommy and Daddy Trump and little Baron was a present from his step[-brothers. I wonder if they’ve offered to take him along on one of their hunting forays into the dangerous wilds?
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