Lorraine Kelly launches a scathing attack on Donald Trump Jr posing with sawed off elephant’s tail

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Lorraine Kelly hit out at Donald Trump‘s son on Twitter on Thursday, after a photo emerged of the 42-year-old holding a sawed off elephant’s tail after a trophy hunt.

The daytime presenter, 60, wrote: ‘what a w****r’ on a Tweet which posted the picture alongside a petition to ban lion ‘hunting trophies’ from entering the U.K. 

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, 36, went on the hunt back in 2012 during a trip to Zimbabwe, where they posed with a leopard carcass, buffalo and elephant’s tail. 

The post Lorraine commented on read: ‘This is the coward @DonaldJTrumpJr son of@realDonaldTrump just after he’d cut off the tail of an elephant, the greatest animal on our planet. 

@BorisJohnson is still allowing these people to bring trophies back into the UK please sign https://change.org/p/michael-gove-ban-lion-trophy-hunting-imports-into-the-uk… #BanTrophyHunting’.

Lorraine shared the post alongside the scathing comment: ‘What a w****r’. 

Some were shocked by the TV star’s outburst as she is known for her friendly demeanour. 

One wrote: ‘Surprised at your language Lorraine’, while another follower commented: ‘Yes Lorraine. far too polite.’

A third fan typed: ‘I don’t think I’ve ever known Lorraine to swear. She’s right though!’ 

Meanwhile, Made In Chelsea star and animal lover Ashley James was just as infuriated as she commented on the presenter’s post: ‘What begins with C and ends in u*t’. 

Others wrote: ‘Breaks my heart why would anyone want to do this ! Only people with more money than sense would do this ! Maybe he should be hunted to feel the pain and fear he has inflicted on these poor animals!’.

Another follower typed: ‘Oh my God such disrespect to such a proud animal I just despair’.  

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump denied at the time any wrong doing and proudly argued that they are hunters.  

Don denied he leaked the photos over Twitter back in 2012:  ‘Not a PR move I didn’t give the pics but I have no shame about them either. I HUNT & EAT game’, he said.

‘I AM A HUNTER I don’t hide from that,’ he wrote to another critic at the time. 

Back in September, PM Boris Johnson vowed to ban imports of hunting trophies from endangered animals. 

The Prime Minister pledged to stop callous hunters bringing the heads, skins and other parts of animals shot for pleasure into Britain, declaring: ‘We must end this barbaric practice’.  

It comes five months after an exposé in the Mail on Sunday revealed the cruelty and horror of South Africa’s lion farms.

An investigation by former Tory peer Lord Ashcroft exposed how up to 12,000 lions bred in captivity are destined to either be shot by hunters or killed in slaughterhouses.

Trophy hunters’ kills are exempt from international controls supposed to stop the parts of endangered animals from being imported or exported.