Washington – Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump suffered a fresh blow on Tuesday with the announcement that a professional golfing event scheduled for October at a Trump course in Los Angeles will be moved, the latest fallout from his vitriol against undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
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A statement issued by Hope Hicks, Trump’s campaign spokeswoman, said the real estate mogul met on Monday with representatives from the PGA of America and they agreed “it is in everyone’s best interest not to conduct the 2015 Grand Slam of Golf at Trump National Golf Club, Los Angeles in October.”
“Due to the controversy surrounding statements made by Mr. Trump having to do with illegal immigrants pouring into the United States from Mexico and other parts of the world, Mr. Trump does not want his friends at the PGA of America to suffer any consequences or backlash with respect to the Grand Slam of Golf,” Hicks said.
The decision to move the Grand Slam of Golf event, which usually features a handful of the best professional golfers competing against one another, came a day after sports broadcaster ESPN announced it would move the ESPY Celebrity Golf Classic from Trump National Golf Club to Pelican Hill Golf Club in the Los Angeles area.
In addition, the PGA of America said it is in the process of exploring options, including a venue for its annual PGA Junior League Golf Championship scheduled to be held at the same Trump course in Los Angeles. It said the group will comment further at the appropriate time.
Since his June 16 candidacy announcement speech, in which he vented about illegal immigrants, Trump has seen a steady flow of business away from him. Univision declared it would not broadcast the Miss USA pageant, and NBC, Macy’s, Serta and NASCAR cut ties with him.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, considered a top contender to represent the Republican Party in the November 2016 election, told Fox Business News that Trump’s comments have distracted from serious debate about how to reform the U.S. immigration system.
“We have a broken legal immigration system and we have an illegal immigration problem that isn’t just composed, by the way, of a porous border with Mexico,” he said.
Trump said on Monday that some of his criticism of Mexico had been distorted, but stuck to his stance that many undocumented immigrants coming across the Mexican border are criminals.
I will vote for Trump and hope he wins. A vote for trump is a vote for the real First Amendment, which is a vote for America. Let’s take America back from the weirdo society by voting for Trump.
Apparently, you know nothing about the First Amendment. How are Trump’s First Amendment rights being abridged or violated?
Isn’t it instructive that as the country becomes less racist and bigoted, it’s the heimishe community and the white supremacists who seem to be the last holdouts. One of the beneficial fallouts from the Trump mess is that it has exposed the Yidden here who protested all these years that their pathological hatred of Obama (calling him Hitler and Hamas and a secret terrorist, etc.) had nothing to with racism. Oh, it did, it did, as anyone who spends any time in a heimishe community knows beyond a doubt, and as all the supportive comments for Trump here prove conclusively. The level of bigotry, racism and prejudice in the heimishe velt is off the charts and indicates to anyone confronted by it that the middos of so many outwardly frum Jews are in a sad, pathetic state.
If more companies boycott Trump he will begin to be seen as a victim and then he will really take off in the polls.
Yesterday Trumpala was quoted as saying that massive infectious diseases were crossing the Mexican border into the US. I recall how his fellow xtians blamed another ethnic group for bringing the black death plague and poisoning wells back in the 10th century. That’s the kind of mensch you want for prez? A sick bigot filled with hate and misinformation? He won’t be a candidate for long.
# 6 when I needed a green card , I had to check for diseases. Why should I have to catch sickness that dont exist in USA from someone crossing third time the border?
This is typical greedy behaviour thththat likes to destroy othotother peoples business
Trump is the only candidate that can boast of his own line of shirts, suits and ties made overseas in sweatshops.
#7 Checking for diseases is normal. Implying that Mexicans crossing the border carry ‘massive infectious diseases’ is a blood libel and a racist provocation. He’s appealing to the lowest prejudices. Like yours apparently.
Unreal how everyone’s in a huff about a comment he made, while no one is upset about hi,Arby’s despicable lies and deceit! That’s American idiot liberals for you,