NBC Universal Fires Donald Trump
AP-NBC announced today that it is cutting business ties with mogul and 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump because of comments he made about Mexican immigrants during the announcement of his campaign.
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In a statement made earlier today, the media giant touched on the main reason it split with Trump: "At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values,"
Thinking Ahead. Trump may have seen this separation coming. After his controversial presidential campaign announcement he said:
"When I come out with a strong immigration stance, and I'm very strong on borders and I'm very strong on crime, that maybe I'll lose NBC along the way,"
Trump stands to lose millions of dollars as a result of this severed partnership. One major outlet being the Miss USA pageant which was scheduled for July 12, will no longer air on the network. Nor will the Miss Universe pageant, scheduled for next January. Both pageants were, until now, jointly owned by NBC and Trump.Also, there's a little show called The Apprentice, which helped Trump to become even more of a household name.
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The other major television broadcaster of the pageant, Univision, canceled the pageant last week due to Trump's choice words.
"Fighting Words". During his presidential kickoff speech, Trump said:
"The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. 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." He also went as far as calling for a wall to be built along the southern border of the United States. Trump later retracted his remarks saying they were directed at U.S. policymakers, not the Mexican government or its people". Talk about back pedaling.
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