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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump Jr accused of killing protected bird in Venice lagoon
Andrea Zanoni, the regional counsellor and environmentalist, said an online video from Field Ethos published by Trump Jr and marketed as a premier lifestyle publication for the unapologetic man showed some people, including Donald Trump Jr, killing various ducks.
In the video, Trump Jr is seen with a ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) in the foreground a duck that is very rare throughout Europe and protected by the European Union birds directive and Italian wildlife protection law, Zanoni wrote on social media.
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Great morning, lots of wigeon, teal. This is actually a rather uncommon duck for the area. Not even sure what it is in English, Trump Jr says, pointing to an orange-brown duck among at least six other dead waterfowl around him.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/04/donald-trump-jr-accused-of-killing-protected-bird-in-venice-lagoon
Trump brought up 2 sons obsessed with killing. I don't think any other recent president has failed as a parent.
thinkingagain
(1,199 posts)Know your laws in the area you are hunting.
I can only hope that he gets arrested
By the EU
A big wanted poster on him would be nice.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,847 posts)They were driving back to the ferry terminal with a protected dead elk strapped to their truck. All this cost them was their guns, truck, boat and $5000 in fines between the two of them. I doubt they'll be back, even when their hunting prohibition expires.
RockCreek
(838 posts)Botany
(73,021 posts)White Tailed Deer he wants and if he wants to hunt in Italy then he needs to follow the game
laws of the Italian region he is hunting.
Btw if you cant I.D. the animal you are shooting @ dont shoot it.
Great morning, lots of wigeon, teal. This is actually a rather uncommon duck for the area. Not even sure what it is in English, Trump Jr says, pointing to an orange-brown duck among at least six other dead waterfowl around him.
4catsmom
(448 posts)while his father kills the country
niyad
(121,849 posts)for his sprees?
riversedge
(74,081 posts)Tanuki
(15,532 posts)for him while he does what he pleases all over the world, along with his siblings and all the grandkids.
This illegal hunting incident happened in Venice in December, when he was reportedly on a "romantic vacation" with his new, post-Kimberly Guilfoyle girlfriend.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/after-sealing-the-deal-for-dad-love-rat-donald-trump-jr-vacations-in-italy-with-new-love-bettina-anderson/articleshow/116509698.cms
BoRaGard
(3,806 posts)"Don't try that punkass G.O.P. gun-humpy shit in Greece, Dinky Donny,
or your ass belongs to me. Helllll hath no freaking fury...etc."
- Kimby Guile (R-AmaBassAdor to Greaz)
BoRaGard
(3,806 posts)lastlib
(25,192 posts)Must.....un.....see...........
GAWD, that is a hideous creature!
Evolve Dammit
(19,720 posts)BoRaGard
(3,806 posts)such debased "values"
bluesbassman
(20,040 posts)How that asshole hasn't had somebody beat him to pulp is indeed a great mystery.
SergeStorms
(19,381 posts)He's a total failure at being a human being.
pandr32
(12,449 posts)PortTack
(35,169 posts)flvegan
(64,727 posts)a/k/a DoucheMag
Paladin
(29,290 posts)I hope the Italian authorities make his life miserable over this incident.
Evolve Dammit
(19,720 posts)Lulu KC
(6,155 posts)Just the idea of shooting in a Venice lagoon turns me green.
Ilsa
(62,438 posts)I hope there is a huge fine and a short jail term.
JoseBalow
(6,283 posts)The whole family are disgusting scumbag pieces of shit.
Bluethroughu
(6,579 posts)CaptainTruth
(7,366 posts)Apparently prisoners would sigh as they caught their last glimpse of Venice from the bridge before entering the prison, never to come out. Hence, the Bridge of Sighs.
I think it would be a good place for Cokesnorter McDuckslayer Jr to spend some time.
purr-rat beauty
(618 posts)they aren't the nicest of people
moose65
(3,350 posts)Trump Jr is almost as repulsive to me as Trump Sr. I can't stand his resting smirk face, or his Thurston Howell III "millionaire voice," or his greasy hair.
I guess he is satisfying his bloodlust by being an "avid trophy hunter," but it strikes as just performance. A rich guy brought up in the lap of luxury has no need for hunting.
Is it wrong to wish that the grizzly bear he's hunting might fall on him instead??
rampartd
(1,386 posts)hunting is not "sport" unless the animals can shoot back.
JoseBalow
(6,283 posts)umroman
(44 posts)was kill? Was the Gallerie dell' Accedemia closed?
riversedge
(74,081 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(157,324 posts)Link to tweet
And this time there's video proof of his bloodthirstiness...
According to Veneto regional counselor Andrea Zanoni, the president's son shot protected ruddy shelduck inside a special conservation part of the Venice lagoon.
An online video from hunting lifestyle company Field Ethos does indeed show Don Jr. shooting at waterfowl in the conservation zone. In it, he addresses the camera directly while surrounded with dead birds, including the ruddy shelduck.
Zanoni has filed a criminal complaint with the forest police because killing these birds is a criminal violation and worst still Trump wasn't allowed to be hunting in Italy in the first place.
"Only residents of an Italian region can hunt in Italy because they must have a hunting license, which by law is issued by the region where the hunter lives," Zanoni wrote.
Additionally, a local animal rights group has filed a complaint against the company that accompanied Don Jr. on his hunt.
Dem4life1234
(2,317 posts)Straw Man
(6,827 posts)He'll probably try to blame it on them.