Thread: Univision drops Miss USA pageant over Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants

Univision drops Miss USA pageant over Donald Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants

The Associated Press | June 25, 2015 11:53 AM ET

File: AP Photo/Jeff BottariDonald Trump and Miss Connecticut USA
NEW YORK — Univision says it is dropping the Miss USA pageant and says it will cut all business ties with Donald Trump over comments he made about Mexican immigrants.

The network said Thursday it will not air the July pageant and has ended its business relationship with the Miss Universe Organization, which produces the Miss USA pageant, due to what it called “insulting remarks about Mexican immigrants” by Trump, a part owner of Miss Universe.

During his presidential campaign kickoff speech last week, Trump accused Latino immigrants of bringing drugs, crime and rapists to the U.S. He called for building a wall along the southern border of the U.S.

Trump says he was only criticizing U.S. policies concerning Mexico, not its people. He says Univision is in default of a five-year contract.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/wo...can-immigrants

Message to Mexico.

Oh, okay. Like who cares?! Trump doesn't care. But this article that calls illegal aliens that Trump was talking about, "Mexican immigrants" should be insulting enough to Mexican Americans to boycott Univision and the National Post and any other outfit that refers to illegal aliens as "Mexican immigrants".

Literally, it nearly has been so long since I had Univision on I do not remember it. I do not watch it.

We need to either start getting Univision dropped from our local cable networks or insist that Univision be broadcast with english subtitles so Americans can see the hostile ant-American reports on those Spanish language media outlets.

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English subtitles[edit]

On January 30, 2012,Univision became the second Spanish language network in the United States to provide closed captions in English (after Telemundo, which has carried its entire weeknight primetime schedule with English subtitles, from September 2003 to October 2008 and again since March 2009); the captions primarily appear during the network's weekday primetime telenovelas from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m.(Eastern and Pacific) and are transmitted over the CC3 caption channel.

Some weekend evening programs (such as Sábado Gigante) also utilize English captions, in addition to the native Spanish-language captions on the CC1 caption stream. The subtitles are intended to attract viewers of Hispanic and other demographics that are not fluent Spanish speakers.^[28]

Programs that include English-language captions during their original broadcast may also include them in repeat broadcasts airing outside of the network's primetime schedule after the program's original run on the network.


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June 25, 2015, 01:58 pm

Miss USA host quits, calls Trump a 'clown'

By Mark Hensch
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The Chilean actor scheduled to host this year’s Miss USA pageant is quitting over GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remarks on Hispanic immigrants.

Cristian de la Fuente, who performs on the television series “Devious Maids,” said on Thursday he is abandoning his role in the annual beauty competition.

“Mr. Trump, as a Latino, I cannot work in an event associated with your name,” Fuente said in a video posted by TMZ. “The statements you made against Mexicans and immigrants show that you are an ignorant.“It is unacceptable to launch your presidential candidacy creating a rhetoric of hatred and discrimination in calling Mexicans drug dealers and rapists,” Fuente added.

“It is a shame that such an important institution as Miss USA is in the hands of a clown."

Trump countered on Thursday that Fuente was not the host of next month’s Miss USA event.

“We never even signed the guy,” he said of the Chilean actor, according to TMZ.

“After the Miss USA people saw him they were unimpressed,” Trump added.

Univision Communications Inc. also announced on Thursday morning that it would not telecast the Miss USA pageant scheduled for July 12.

It terminated its relationship with the Miss Universe Organization, a group that produces the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants that Trump partly-owns.

“At Univision, we see first-hand the work ethic, love for family, strong religious values and the important role Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans have had and will continue to have in building the future of our country,” Univision said on its website.

Trump’s presidential campaign countered on Thursday that the network was caving to pressure from Mexico by blacklisting the pageants.

“The Mexican government and others are putting tremendous pressure on Univision to break their signed and fully-effective contract with the Miss Universe Organization,” it said.

“[This is] because Mr. Trump has been exposing the public, and the world, to the significant damage that is being done at the southern border, and the terrible and costly trade deals that the United States is incompetently making with Mexico,” it added. “These deals are great for Mexico and horrible for the United States.”

Trump also said he plans on suing Univision for “hundreds of millions of dollars” for breaching its contract with his Miss Universe Organization.

Trump formally launched his 2016 White House bid on June 16 from New York City’s Trump Tower.

He said during his announcement speech “the U.S. has become the dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.”

“They’re sending people who have a lot of problems,” Trump said of illegal immigration. “They bring in drugs, they bring in crime, they’re rapists. I assume some are good people.”
— This story was updated at 2:34 p.m.

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