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Monday, June 29, 2015

Donald Trump to Univision: Get Off My Lawn!

Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, the outspoken GOP presidential candidate has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course, report The NY Post.

In a letter Friday to Randy Falco, Trump advised the Univision CEO that “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.”

Trump also demanded that Falco, whose company’s Miami office is next door to Trump National Doral, “immediately stop work and close the gate which is being constructed between our respective properties.”

Trump gave Falco one week to take care of that matter, or “we will close it.”


The letter was dispatched a day after Univision declared it was canceling its coverage of the Miss USA pageant July 12 on its UniMas network as well as the Miss Universe pageant, which had been scheduled to air on the flagship Univision channel next January, and was severing its business relationship with the Miss Universe Organization, which produces both pageants. The reason: what Univision called “insulting remarks about Mexican immigrants” recently voiced by Trump, a part owner of Miss Universe.

During his presidential campaign kickoff speech, Trump had portrayed immigrants from Mexico as “bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.”

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