Trump Refuses to Apologize For Comments on Mexico
When billionaire TV personality Donald Trump announced that he was running for president in 2016, he managed to offend tons of potential Latino voters by saying, "The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems."
Referring specifically to our neighbors to the south, the host of the NBC reality show “The Apprentice” said, "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. … They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
This did not go over well, and sounded curiously close to Ann Coulter's recent comments made while discussing immigration with Jorge Ramos on Fusion. In that interview, the right wing commentator blithely said, “If you don’t want to be killed by Isis don’t go to Syria. If you don’t want to be killed by a Mexican there’s nothing I can tell you.”
Whatever the backlash Trump is facing now for his comments on Mexico, the 69-year-old businessman turned politician is not backing down from them.
"There is nothing to apologize for," Trump told Us Magazine. “Everything that I said is correct.”
“People are flowing through the borders and we have no idea who they are, where they're coming from. They're not only coming from Mexico, they're coming from all over South America and the world."
On Thursday representatives for the Spanish language network Univision announced that they were dropping the Miss USA beauty pageant, of which Trump is a part owner. The lineup for the July 12 show is dwindling as celebrities are electing to opt out of any involvement with the beauty contest. Co-hosts Roselyn Sanchez and Cristian de la Fuente have reportedly dropped out, along with musical guest J Balvin.
And Trump is unfazed.
"We'll get more people," Trump said. "We have many people that want to do this. We're just looking right now. We couldn't care less about those two hosts backing out. I never even heard of them quite frankly."
As cavalier as Trump sounds about his stake in Miss USA, he is angry enough about Univision's recent decision to drop the program to have written a letter on Friday to Randy Falco, the CEO of the network, telling him, as reported by the New York Post, “Under no circumstances is any officer or representative of Univision allowed to use Trump National Doral, Miami -- its golf courses or any of its facilities.”
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