The Trump family, specifically the Trump children have been placed in a unique position during this presidential campaign as their father attempts a run for the President of the United States. Normally, important/key surrogates for presidential candidates come forward from political and/or economic positions to vouch and speak for their candidate usually being able to say things the candidate is not able to say deflecting flack from potentially controversial statements.
Yet for Trump, he has not only had problems not with finding surrogates, but ones that seem to have any credibility and voice in the mainstream public. Thus, his children have become important voices for his campaign. They try to act as channels for the public to see the “real Donald” acting as voices of reason and focus for a father who can’t seem to stay on tracks very long speaking off the cuff creating controversy and division. While the children are some of the “best” speakers he has, many their attempts at showing a “softer side to trump” are haven’t come off very well. Many of their insensitive inappropriate comments have come off tame compared to the bombastic fiery fear rhetoric of their father. Much seems to be desired in the way the Trump children have handled issues and have even been criticized earlier last month for comments about their father’s lack of tax returns, the media and women (specifically mothers).
Even more specifically, Donald Trump Jr. has been under fire for a tweet recently equating Syrian refugees to skittles (graphic below). Within hours, Donald Jr. received much deserved criticism ranging from accusations of racist undertones, inaccurate understanding about terrorism statistics in the US, and even the Wrigley company (owners of Skittles) quickly coming out to sever any associations of their candy with Donald Jr’s. comments. 
This is just another story in the ever growing narrative that Trump’s children haven’t fallen too far from the Trump tree. Not able to articulate our national/international issues in any sort of respectful manner and too disconnected from any average American as their upbringings are rooted in extremely wealthy soil far different than most Americans. Normally, family to presidential candidates are not scrutinized as much about their political comments, but with them being the few people who are surrogates to Donald Trump their voice carries a unique, concerning and closely tied echo to the Republican presidential candidate.