Jeopardy guy and children's book author Ken Jennings mocks Barron Trump's horror at seeing dad's bloody head

If I thought about Ken Jennings at all, and I'm not sure I ever did, I certainly didn't give any thought to what his politics might be. Who cares anyway? He's a guy who won a bunch of money on a game show years ago. That doesn't make him worth researching. Now he apparently writes children's books, which might lead you to assume he values children and would be disinclined to act abusively toward them. You might think that. But apparently you'd be wrong:

Barron Trump saw a very long necktie on a heap of expired deli meat in a dumpster. He thought it was his dad & his little heart is breaking

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) May 31, 2017

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This quickly elicited a response from Barron's older brother Donald Jr., which was sufficiently pointed that you might think the creep would realize he'd done a foolish thing and slowly back away.

It takes a real man to pick on an 11 year old. Yet another low from the left, but they will rationalize this away with their usual excuses. https://t.co/JDF3VsVEJ1

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 31, 2017

So long-ago game show contestant Jennings was properly chastened and let the matter drop, yes? Um . . . what do you think?

I will kill as many white rhinos as it takes to prove my masculinity to Donald Trump Jr. https://t.co/mm8YzH2NPB

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) May 31, 2017

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I really don't get what people like this guy think they're accomplishing. I realize what Twitter is like. It's ruled by mockery and scoffing, and these things can never be taken too far, especially if the last name of the target is Trump (regardless of the target's first name or age, it would appear). Maybe Jennings isn't concerned about influencing anyone outside the putrid Twitterverse. He just likes using that platform to be a jerk and doesn't really care what the outside world's reaction might be. That seems a bit short-sighted for a guy who wants to sell children's books, but the capacity people to act against their own best interests - especially when thousands of retweets are in the offing - seems almost limitless. The back story, of course, is the report that when Barron saw the image of Kathy Griffin holding the fairly real-looking bloody head of the president, Barron was horrified that it might be real and started calling out to his mother in a near-panic. That would be the sort of information that, once you learn of it, would lead to a moment of sober reflection if you were a reasonably decent human being. If you're Ken Jennings, I guess it's an occasion to mock an 11-year-old on Twitter. I bet his books are a piece of work.

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