Donald Trump Jr.'s Comments About The COVID-19 Omicron Variant Is Raising Eyebrows

Donald Trump Jr. has been extra busy taunting people on social media lately. Don Jr. made headlines by trolling Democrats on Thanksgiving Day. The former president's son posted a bizarre video of Donald Trump bursting out of a turkey dancing to "YMCA" on Turkey Day. On November 19, the oldest Trump son encouraged people on Twitter to give teenager Kyle Rittenhouse a semi-automatic rifle, causing Rittenhouse's lawyer to call Don Jr. an "idiot."

Like his dad, former President Trump, Don Jr. is an expert when it comes to needling people on social media. In late October, after the "Rust" shooting tragedy, Don Jr. taunted Alec Baldwin for the accidental shooting on social media. In one post, Don Jr. posted a Homer Simpson meme to Instagram that read, "Let's all watch Alec Baldwin blame the gun," along with the caption, "It's only a matter of time." Vanity Fair reported that the eldest Trump sibling even sold t-shirts mocking the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

But you won't believe the latest from the oldest Trump son! Don Jr.'s comment about the COVID-19 Omicron variant is raising eyebrows.

Donald Trump Jr.'s latest social media target is the World Health Organization. Don Jr. trolled WHO for naming the latest coronavirus variant "Omicron," rather than "Xi." Business Insider reported that after the health organization's November 26 announcement, conspiracy theorists started speculating WHO skipped the Greek letter Xi, so it would not antagonize Chinese President Xi Jinping. Don Jr. began taunting WHO by tweeting, "As far as I'm concerned the original will always be the Xi variant." GOP Senator Ted Cruz piled on with Don Jr., tweeting, "If the WHO is this scared of the Chinese Communist Party, how can they be trusted to call them out the next time they're trying to cover up a catastrophic global pandemic?"

The World Health Organization uses the Greek letters of the alphabet to name coronavirus variants, but some right-wing individuals jumped on the fact that Xi was skipped. Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy said WHO didn't use Xi to name the new variant because it is a common last name in China. Dunleavy tweeted, "Xi wasn't used b/c it's a common last name & WHO best practices for naming disease suggest avoiding causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional, & ethnic groups."

But facts can be pesky things when trolling on social media. Business Insider reported that common right-wing talking points blame China for the COVID-19 pandemic, and former President Donald Trump called it the "China virus" and the "Kung Flu" in the past.