Thanks to Donald Trump's son,sex boudoir videos the Republican candidate is now being overshadowed by a candy.

On Monday evening, Donald Trump Jr. riled up the internet with a ridiculous meme, comparing the country's current Syrian refugee situation to a bowl of Skittles, and since then utter madness unfolded.

According to the latest statistics from GoogleTrends, as of Tuesday at 10:33 GMT -- after the candy began trending on social platforms -- the United States showed a nine time spike in the search term "Skittles," making it more widely searched than Trump himself.

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Following the meme upset caused by Donald Trump Jr.'s original tweet, Mars made a statement distancing itself from the analogy by declaring, "Skittles are candy; refugees are people," which people greatly appreciated.

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Though the candy company has spoken out, the internet is clearly not ready to let go of the blasphemous image now associated with the Trump/Pence campaign, as shown by the latest Google Trends results.

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The graph shows a notable spike in "Skittles" searches throughout the last four hours, with the peak on Sept. 20 at 10:33 GMT exceeding all "Donald Trump" searches. So if we think of Google Trends in terms of the election, Skittles are essentially beating Trump in the "polls." What a time to be alive.

As of Tuesday morning, the candy continued to triumph in the spotlight and the hashtag #SkittlesWelcome -- full of more tweets refuting the comparison -- began trending on Twitter.

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Who could have ever imagined that this close to our 2016 election we'd all be furiously debating Skittles.