Donald Trump Jr. - Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us

IM NOT MAD.

Look, everybody is called a traitor once or twice in their lives, right? Everybody gets falsely accused and wrongly investigated by the FBI and has to testify in front of Congress for over thirty hours, answering the same stupid politically motivated questions over and over again, dont they? And, everybody has an army of social justice warriors combing through every word theyve ever said online to find something to be offended by, correct?

Why should I be mad? Im not mad. In fact, my plan was to write a feel-good book about forgiveness and healing, sort of a Chicken Soup for the Political Soul type of story. I was even going to call it Kumbaya instead of Triggered , but it seemed that title was already taken, probably by one of the 2,467 Democrat candidates currently running for president.

So instead of chicken soup, over the next 300 pages or so, Ill take you on a tour of all the craziest, most destructive ideas that the left has come up with in the last decade or more. Think of it as a trip through Jurassic Park, only instead of dangerous dinosaurs, you get to see sleepy liberal losers, socialist crybabies, and hypocritical politicians and media. If you decide to come along, I promise that nothing will jump into the car with us.

Youll also get to find out a little about me during the ride, if only as a way to dispel the conspiracy theory on the left that I was born with horns.

Before we get going, however, I need to make a few disclaimers. If youve been around lawyers as much as I have lately, you begin to think like them.

First: I am not operating in my official capacity as a spokesman for my fathers campaign in these pages. So if I were to say something like, oh, I dont know, Adam Schiff is a lying ass clown or Robert Mueller is a feeble old fool who got used by the Democratsyou know, if I were to hypothetically say those thingsthats all just my opinion. No one on the campaign has been consulted, and I doubt any of them would care very much anyhow. Im just saying what they all know to be true but dont want to take the heat for saying in public. I guess thats just one of those things that got passed down in the genes!

Second: As much as I might joke around, I am not actively trying to offend anyone with what Im about to say. Im just making arguments, backing them up with facts, and putting them out into the world, the same way millions of people have done with millions of books before mine. I would actually like to think of this book as offering a reasoned antidote to all the hysterical bullshit thats flying around right now. That used to be called discourse. But today, discourse exists only for leftists. When conservatives do it, they call it hate speech. I also know that as the son of a rich white guy living in 2019, Im essentially not allowed to have an opinion anymore, let alone express that opinion in public.

Finally, I guess I should probably include a note about the title of my book, because its probably not a term you hear every day. In fact, if youre over the age of about thirty-five or you havent spent the last few years on a college campus, on Twitter, or in an asylum (and really, who can tell the difference anymore?), you probably have no idea why this book is called Triggered .

Allow me to explain.

Today, as it appears on the internet at least, the term trigger warning is used to describe something, say a tweet from my dad, that blows up the fragile sensibilities of the liberal Twitterverse. At the very least, it sets their hair on fire and creates a minor news story for a few days. But at the worst, it moves them to real-life outrage and organized violence. And before you ask, the freaking out is wildly disproportionate. While conservatives usually get worked up over important thingssuch as the killing of babies or the stripping away of our natural rights as human beingswith liberals the triggers tend to be much sillier. If you say capitalism is better than socialism, they freak out. If my father says America is the greatest country in the world, they lose it. If you tell them the cat video they posted isnt that cute, they have a complete breakdown.

With every passing day, the bar for whats considered triggering gets lower and lower. For example, have you ever asked someone where theyre from? Well, according to liberals, you cant do that anymore. Its called a microagression. (Dont worry, Ill explain these terms as we go.)

And when Robert Mueller says the president of the United States is not an agent of Russiawhich, call me crazy, seems as though it should be good news for everyonethey melt down and console each other like they did when they found out Al Franken was a creepy pervert.

So, because my book will contain sections with a number of these so-called dangerous ideas, I thought it best to include a little warning of my own. Though it isnt illegalyetto discuss triggering ideas like this in a book, who knows where well be by the time this goes to print. I could be brought up on charges just for having an opinion or a picture of myself on the cover.

YOUR TRIGGER WARNING

Do not continue reading this book if you dont like conservative ideas or if the thought of reading bad words scares you. Do not continue reading if you dont have a sense of humor or are American but somehow, magically, Donald Trump is not your president. Also, if you find any of the following even remotely offensive: patriotism, masculinity, hunting, MAGA hats, the American flag, guns, sex, religion, Roseanne Barr, criticism of stupid ideas, capitalism, skyscrapers, or the use of the word Christmas during the Christmas season, then you should