How wonderful it is when someone gets a taste of his own medicine. Such was the case with Donald Trump, as NBC has announced it will no longer work with the presidential candidate in response to his hateful comments about immigrants. That means no more beauty pageants and he will not appear on the reality show The Apprentice. Trump, of course, had a lot to say on the matter:
“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.”
Oh, Trump. Who will you alienate next? We can’t wait to see!
Team Blackness also discussed the SCOTUS marriage-equality ruling, Bobby Jindal’s latest misstep, and what J.Crew’s CEO has hanging on the wall of his house in the Hamptons.
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gratuitous
Isn’t it nice it took NBC a mere two weeks to determine that T Rump’s comments were an offense against the respect and dignity due to people? Of course, there was that online petition thing, with thousands of people telling NBC how objectionable T Rump’s comments were. I guess once enough people signed on, someone in corporate blinked twice and said, “He-e-e-ey, you know somethin’? That wasn’t very nice!”
Two weeks those comments hung in the air. Two weeks. NBC probably wants a cookie now.
Ben Cisco
“…always wanting credit for sh*t they SUPPOSED to do.”
– Chris Rock
c u n d gulag
Hey Trump, you dead-ferret toupee’d chump – “You’ve been fired!!!”
Which means that if he wants attention, he’ll have to stay in the GOP Presidential assclown-parade!
That sound you hear is the RNC whaling and bemoaning NBC’s decision!!!!
Poor, poor, babies!
You live and promote the bigots, you die with the bigot’s you ‘brung’ to the dance.
It couldn’t happen to a “nicer” group of bigoted sociopaths and psychopaths!!!
Eat sh*t, and live, douche-canoe’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr Pedant
Whom. Whom!
Kylroy
@gratuitous: How dare they do something good later after not doing something good immediately!
Most amusing to me is that having NBC drop Miss USA is no great loss, since mainstream America cares less and less about beauty pageants (much less the RC Cola of the field)…but they’re a much bigger deal in Latino culture, so pissing off Univision has cost him a lot more.
Punchy
What’s funny is that it’s a near-universally held belief that his “presidential campaign” was pure PR to pump his TV show. Now he’s lost that. So he may just actually try to win a few states and by doing so, scare the living shit out of Rinse Primus and his GOP ilk.
Bitter Scribe
Show me a bigot, and I’ll show you someone who insists that he or she is “just telling it like it is.”
Betty Cracker
@Kylroy: The RC Cola analogy only works if Miss USA is superior to its more widely viewed competitors. I doubt a Trump property could make that claim.
Fred
@gratuitous: It’s understandable that a large organization needs time to examine the legal issues involved with canceling contracts. What is hard to fathom is why they put the scum bag on the air to begin with. Then again I never could understand the popularity of the vile creature.
joax
People’s reaction here in southern Mexico is classic. The Trump piñata is selling well and generating lots of buzz. Here’s a story from Oaxaca’s front page.
http://www.noticiasnet.mx/portal/web/general/agropecuarias/287861-grupo-televisa-se-une-boicot-contra-trump
ThresherK
@c u n d gulag: You mean “wailing”.
Although RNC whaling does bring to mind a joke about “Chris Christie” and “harpoon”. Some assembly required.
jl
@joax: Thanks. Nice pic. The Trump pinatas you folks are making down there have really come a long way in just a few days. The one in the pic looks really, well, I would call it lifelike, except not sure Trump’s mug and hair are very lifelike.
Mike in NC
“Chump Trump Dumped”
Just hope that he sticks around long enough for a debate. Imagine The Donald and Chris Christie bellowing in each other’s faces while the audience cheers them on like a couple of pro wrestlers.
SiubhanDuinne
As I mentioned a day or two ago in a nearly dead thread, the anagram of DONALD TRUMP is LAND TURD MOP — which is a perfect description of that thing on his head.
ET
No more free (or in his case paid-him) advertising!
He should be thanking NBC. They helped his nascent PR machine or at least resurrected this the one he did have that withered. If he hadn’t had his kiss his a$$ show he wouldn’t be part of the conversation (even if the conversation in this case a bit like being the butt of a joke).
PurpleGirl
@joax: I love the idea of a Trump Pinata (sorry for no accent). It’s lets “the little people” vent their feelings about the idiot.
c u n d gulag
@ThresherK:
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
Breezeblock
I just saw Carlos Slim, richest man in Mexico, and either #1 or #2 in the world, cancelled a deal with Donald Dump.
Judge Crater
Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire, is also cutting ties to Trump. The were working on some projects together.
Maybe he’ll offend another powerful ethnic group – Italians or Jews or African-Americans.
Tom F
@joax: OK, great, he’s creating piñata jobs in Mexico, but what is he doing for us?
srv
Speaking Truth to Power is something The Donald has always done, he’s never been a person trying to win a beauty pageant.
I look to more self-evident truths being addressed during his campaign.
jl
@Tom F:
” OK, great, he’s creating piñata jobs in Mexico, but what is he doing for us? ”
Ha! Brilliant point. Trump is a double agent? This scandal may dominate the first GOP debate.
Tommy
I can’t stand the guy but somehow his name/brand seems to carry weight. To some extent it is all he has. Now he is shitting all over it and I bet many, many people are running away.
Tommy
I live in a town that is 98% white. If I don’t leave said town I might not see an African American or Hispanic for days at a time. It is kind of strange. So I am out at a bar the other night and strike up a conversation with a Hispanic person.
Guy works 9-5 building trains. Then drives 60 miles to work at this parents Mexican restaurant that just opened in my town.
I am sure Trump would look down his nose at this person. Well in the world I live in this is the kind of person I want to come here. I don’t think he needed me to tell him this, but I did anyway.
Iowa Old Lady
Surely some of the people telling pollsters they love The Donald are just trolling.
Mandalay
@gratuitous:
NBC probably only took a day or two to decide to dump Trump, but then they had to get their lawyers to go through all the fine print very carefully before finally doing the deed.
Now they could have said something negative about Trump in the interim, but that would have just invited calls for them to fire him immediately, which they were in the process of doing anyway. There were no good options for NBC, so they took the least bad option.
OzarkHillbilly
@Tommy: He has been shitting all over himself for years. This is nothing new.
gelfling545
@Tommy: I feel really sad about this because a person very dear to me has been saddled with this last name. She is embarrassed daily since he caught the politics bug and there is only a negligible degree of slightly possible relationship.
japa21
Totally off track. I just found out that the company I work for, an extremely large company, raised the rainbow flag over its corporate headquarters when the SSM decision was announced. Just found that very cool.
Laertes
CNN reports that both hosts have quit.
beltane
Mexico has now pulled out the Miss Universe competition altogether. If other Latin American countries follow suit there won’t be much of a contest at all. Nice pageant you had there, Donald.
beltane
@OzarkHillbilly: Being from New York, Donald Trump has always been synonymous with self-shitting. He’s kind of like a low-rent Howard Stern.
beltane
This year, for the first time ever, I actually watched the Miss Universe competition. I had assumed the ads would be targeted to men, but I was wrong. Judging by the ads, the target audience for this thing is young women, especially young Latinas. It made me feel like I was back in high school, flipping through the pages of Vogue with my friends and wishing I looked like a model.
Shakezula
@Bitter Scribe: Unless they’re just only joking, geeze why is everyone so sensitive, some of my best friends are … [chokes to death on his own idiocy].
srv
Even the liberal Jimmy Carter thinks Obama’s impact on the world stage has been minimal.
Patricia Kayden
@gratuitous: And not one Republican Presidential candidate has condemned Trump for his racist comments. Says it all about that political party.
Patricia Kayden
@Iowa Old Lady: Or are Democrats like myself. We love Trump because if he’s the Republican nominee, Hilary will cake walk into the White House (not that any of the other GOP candidates will beat her).
Tommy
@beltane: LOL. I’ve never watched the show because I find what they seem to think is “pretty” isn’t my cup of tea. Now I don’t want to get myself in trouble here, I find women of all kinds attractive.
But I’d prefer to watch the women’s soccer team. I like fit women. Maybe that don’t have boobs the size of flotation devices.
But I guess to each their own :).
justsomeguy
I find it unlikely that Trump gains no benefit from NBC continuing to air “The Apprentice”. Surely Mr Trump is an “executive producer”, and likely he has an ownership component or at least receives a significant fee from Burnett.
beltane
@Tommy: Most of the young women looked identical to each other. Their hair, especially, looked like they we all wearing the same wig. The Eastern European contestants wore the blond wig and the Latin Americans the brunette wig. The exception was Miss Canada who wore some kind of hockey net contraption on her head in honor of her northern heritage.
Iowa Old Lady
@Patricia Kayden: Exactly. Mr IOL swears he’ll go to the R caucuses this year and vote for Trump, assuming he’s still running.
A guy
It’s not offensive to opine that Mexico is dumping its dregs upon us. It’s just an opinion.
MaryRC
@gratuitous: I imagine there was some paperwork involved. Depending on the terms of their contract with Trump, they probably couldn’t have fired him the next day.
Sourmash
The Donald’s “concession” speech in which he drops out of the race will be one for the ages, right up there with “you won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore…”
Another Holocene Human
@Fred: Mislaid 80s nostalgia?
I always liked Ivanna better. Why didn’t they put her on TV?
Or Vanna?
MaryRC
@beltane: The Miss USA national costume parade is gloriously silly. I don’t watch the pageant but Tom and Lorenzo cover the national costumes at their blog and it is a joy to behold. Last year Miss Canada wore not only a hockey scoreboard but also the Stanley Cup on her head, and a dozen hockey sticks sprouting out of her back like wings, and she wasn’t even the most insane. That would go to Miss Ireland whose costume was apparently supposed to represent a Celtic warrior but actually looked like a peat bog. I’d be sorry to lose that part of it although the rest is the usual tackiness, but at least if it continues it won’t have Trump rubbing himself all over it.
A guy
The jealousy of trump here is humorous. Don’t worry about what others have, worry about yourself and your kids
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@srv:
The Jimmy Carter who didn’t enact 1/10 the liberal policies that Obama has?
Troll harder, little boy.
Another Holocene Human
@Tommy: I’m with you. Although my wife doesn’t have much in the way of visible musculature and I like her anyway. =)
Another Holocene Human
@MaryRC: I googled and … wow.
Another Holocene Human
@A guy: How very white of you, brother.