Trump told ‘you’re fired’ as NBC ends business over Mexican remarks

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>NBC is ending its relationship with business magnate Donald Trump over comments he made about Mexican immigrants during the announcement of his Republican presidential campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The network said it would no longer show the annual Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants&comma; which had been a joint venture between the company and The Apprentice host&period; Miss USA has been on NBC since 2003 and this year’s edition was set for July 12&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"696" height&equals;"392" data-videoid&equals;"1syqkd1uf8w" title&equals;"Donald Trump Faces Backlash for Calling Mexican Immigrants Rapists"><a placeholder href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;1syqkd1uf8w"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;1syqkd1uf8w&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Donald Trump Faces Backlash for Calling Mexican Immigrants Rapists"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At NBC&comma; respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values&comma;” NBC said in a statement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Mr Trump said a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;weak” NBC might have to see him in court&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;During his presidential kick-off speech&comma; Mr Trump said Mexican immigrants were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;bringing drugs&comma; they’re bringing crime&comma; they’re rapists and some&comma; I assume&comma; are good people”&period; He also called for building a wall along the southern border of the United States&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump later said that his remarks were directed at US policymakers&comma; not the Mexican government or its people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Mexican media giant Televisa said it would no longer show the Miss Universe pageant or do business with Mr Trump on any other communication project&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Televisa&comma; one of the largest TV groups in the hemisphere&comma; said his &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;disrespectful” remarks offended the entire Mexican population&period; The company said it &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;strongly rejects all forms of discrimination&comma; racism and xenophobia”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>NBC’s action comes less than a week after Univision similarly decided to ditch Mr Trump and the pageants&period; Mr Trump has also been a fixture on NBC as host of The Apprentice and its celebrity offshoot and an agreement that he would no longer be on the show pre-dated the current controversy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The network said it and producer Mark Burnett were exploring ways to continue Celebrity Apprentice minus Mr Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump said he anticipated losing the business relationship and was not apologising for his statements because they &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;were correct”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Whatever they want to do is OK with me&comma;” he said after a campaign speech before the City Club of Chicago&comma; comprised of civic and community leaders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But in a statement issued by his company in New York&comma; he said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;NBC is weak&comma; and like everybody else is trying to be politically correct&period; That is why our country is in serious trouble&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump said he would consider suing&comma; as he planned to do with Univision&period; He also took a sideswipe at NBC’s decision to demote&comma; but not fire news anchor Brian Williams for telling false stories about some of the reporting he was involved in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They will stand behind lying Brian Williams&comma; but won’t stand behind people that tell it like it is&comma; as unpleasant as that may be&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda&comma; a group of 39 Latino advocacy organisations&comma; had called on NBC to get out of business with Mr Trump&period; Similarly&comma; a petition urging the same thing on the Change&period;org website gathered more than 218&comma;000 signatures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a sense&comma; NBC’s hand was forced by Univision’s decision&period; NBC’s parent company&comma; NBC Universal&comma; owns Telemundo&comma; the chief competitor to Univision among Spanish-language networks in the United States&period; Telemundo lost the contract to air Miss USA and Miss Universe to Univision&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If they need and value the Latino community&comma; they needed to show they knew the depth of the insult that came from Trump&comma;” said Felix Sanchez&comma; organiser for the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dozens of protesters from immigrant and Latino rights groups waited outside a Chicago restaurant where Mr Trump spoke&period; Their chants included &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No more hate&excl;”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Maritza Vaca&comma; with the Chicago-based Accion Hispano&comma; said immigrants had rights and was upset by Mr Trump’s comments&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is racism&comma;” she said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For him to be running for president is ridiculous&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>NBC said it was still determining what it would show in place of the pageant next month&period; 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