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Donald Trump Jr. is being flayed on social media after he posted an Instagram story comparing a border wall to a zoo fence, amid a national debate over border security.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know why you can enjoy a day at the zoo?\u201d<\/em> Trump wrote. \u201cBecause walls work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Trump Jr. made his comment on Tuesday evening as his father addressed the nation, calling once again for funding a wall along the US\u2019 southern border. At present, the government has been partially shut down for 18 days as Trump struggles to reach a deal with congressional Democrat leaders to fund the wall.<\/p>\n Donald Jr\u2019s post instantly triggered the anti-Trump masses on Twitter.<\/p>\n \u201cThe son of the President of the United States just compared immigrants seeking asylum to zoo animals,\u201d<\/em> one commenter wrote. \u201cGood night, America.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Just the first son equating poor brown people and children to animals. I wonder if this is gonna be received with the same outrage the \u201clet\u2019s impeach the mf\u201d remark did.<\/p>\n \u2014 Vivian Vacca (@ViviVacca) January 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Others goaded the First Son, suggesting he might end up behind bars \u201cvery soon\u201d<\/em> for still unproven shady dealings<\/a> with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 election campaign.<\/p>\n As Trump Jr. posted on Instagram, his father struck a different tone in his much-anticipated television address<\/a> to the nation.<\/p>\n Calling the current situation at the Mexican border \u201ca crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul,\u201d<\/em> Trump claimed that building a wall would reduce the harm done to Americans by drug traffickers, criminal gangs, and migrant workers, whom he said undercut the wages of African-Americans and Hispanics.<\/p>\n In a \u2018good fences make good neighbors\u2019 kind of argument, the president also pointed out that anti-wall politicians like former President Barack Obama build walls around their own houses.<\/p>\n \u201cThey don\u2019t build walls because they hate the people on the outside,\u201d<\/em> Trump said. \u201cBut because they love the people on the inside.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n