New York – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump celebrated Cinco de Mayo on Thursday by tweeting a photo of himself with a taco bowl and the caption: “I love Hispanics,” but the gesture was not to everyone’s taste.
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“Happy #CincoDeMayo!” tweeted Trump (@realDonaldTrump). “The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!”
Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican defeat of the French during the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
The taco bowl is not actually on sale at the Trump Grill, but the Trump Cafe in the candidate’s namesake tower offers a “Taco Fiesta!” for $13.50.
The posting angered, baffled or amused some social media users, including Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, Trump’s likely opponent in the Nov. 8 election.
“‘I love Hispanics!’ —Trump, 52 minutes ago,” Clinton (@HillaryClinton) tweeted. “‘They’re gonna be deported.’ —Trump, yesterday.”
Trump has struggled to gain the support of Latino voters since launching his presidential campaign last year with comments accusing Mexico of sending rapists and drug runners across the U.S. border.
He has also vowed to deport all the illegal immigrants living in the United States and build a wall along the border with Mexico and have that country pay for it.
“Trump Tower Grill” began trending on the microblogging platform after Trump’s tweet, as social media users weighed in on the post.
“Trump sources confirm that in fact, Mexico paid for the taco salad,” tweeted Tom Watson (@tomwatson).
Others found the tweet offensive and argued it relied heavily on crude stereotyping.
“Now officially waiting for a photo of Trump eating some Church’s Chicken (or Bojangles) with a thumbs up and a ‘I love the blacks!’ ” tweeted Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie).
“Trump and matzah ball soup on Jewish New Year… You can count on it,” tweeted Harry Enten (@ForecasterEnten).
Get it clear Mrs. Rodham: Trump loves Hispanics. He doesn’t like ILLEGAL, especially criminal aliens, no matter their origin.
He definitely has a sense of humor!
Well, the accusations he isn’t presidential are proved- if he was he’d be chomping on a hot dog with Seinfeld or biting into a hamburger at a DC fast food joint like our current esteemed president does. And don’t forget to tweet pictures of catching flies in between your fingers if you want to call yourself president.
Oh people grow up, the funny thing is that all these angry people dobthe exact same things
Look at Chris Mathews …big Mr moral ….womens right supporter ……left wing hack…….he saw Mrs Trump and his true colors showed
Hopefully the American people are smarter ….and it looks like they are ….
Trump 2016
I’m offended by those who get so easily offended. This is narishkeit and kleinekeit. Is this what we’ve become? A nation of squabbling social media reactors? (Oh – like I am right now. So – forget it. Just don’t put “Billary” back in the White House, unless you prefer things to go from quite bad to quite worse.)
Does anyone rally think that Hillary and the Dems love Hispanics or Blacks for that matter or are they virtually enslaving them to government aide in order to garner votes?
the DemoRats want to let everyone in,illegals and terrorists of all nations so that they could just increase their voter base even more over Republicans.
That is all their strategy and beliefs are based on.Getting more voters alligned to their ideology to keep winning elections to stay in office etc…