Time
By Nolan Feeney
June 29, 2015
NBC will no longer be the home of the Miss Universe and Miss America pageants
NBC has cut longstanding ties with Donald Trump following the presidential hopeful’s controversial comments about immigration.
NBC
will no longer be the home of the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants,
which Trump produces, and Trump has already stepped down from running
his reality show The Apprentice to run for president. “At NBC, respect
and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values,” the network
said in a statement. “Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald
Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business
relationship with Mr. Trump.”
During
his presidential announcement speech earlier this month, Trump called
the U.S. “a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems” while speaking
about immigration. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending
their best,” he said. “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.”
In
a statement provided to TIME on Monday, Trump stood by his comments and
called NBC “weak” for “trying to be politically correct.”
“If
NBC is so weak and so foolish to not understand the serious illegal
immigration problem in the United States, coupled with the horrendous
and unfair trade deals we are making with Mexico, then their contract
violating closure of Miss Universe/Miss USA will be determined in
court,” he said. “Furthermore, they will stand behind lying Brian
Williams, but won’t stand behind people that tell it like it is, as
unpleasant as that may be.”
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