Miss Universe Paulina Vega Refuses to Give up Her Crown
Vega said she’s never really interacted with Trump one-on-one much, let alone hearing him saying anything racist or questionable.
Univision, which signed the contract in January 2015, responded to Trump’s lawsuit shortly after it was filed.
To those unaware, Trump talked about the Mexican migrants in his presidential kickoff speech.
Paulina Vega had come under pressure to quit after her country’s condemnation of the pageant owner, Donald Trump. “In addition, given Mr. Trump’s ongoing antics, including his most recent episode today with the current Miss Universe, it is clear that Mr. Trump’s actions have and will continue to distract focus away from the real stars of the show – the women involved in the pageant”.
“Our enterprise is multicultural with persons of Latin American descent creating up a large percentage of our staff and loyal shoppers”, firm CEO Basim Shami said in the statement.
Donald Trump will not back down without a fight.
NBC, which co-owns the pageants with Trump, and Univision, whose part-owner has vowed to spend “whatever it takes” to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House, dropped the Miss US and Miss Universe pageants.
On Monday (Tuesday in Manila), Trump issued a new statement about Mexican immigration.
NBC said “Celebrity Apprentice” is licensed from Mark Burnett’s United Artists Media Group and that connection will continue.
REELZ, which describes itself as a leading independent cable and satellite general entertainment network, said the Miss U.S. pageant will be telecast as scheduled from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Also, Garten has announced that they are still considering what to do about Macy’s after the chain of department stores discontinued selling Trump merchandise, which includes a clothing line and fragrances. “They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”, he said. “It is individuals like this that are really operating our nation due to the fact our leaders are weak and ineffective”.
The 50/50 ownership of Miss Universe is still in place, and there’s no plan yet in place to change that. We followed the contract. “Donald Trump’s remarks had been disgusting and offensive, and this hateful language has no location in our city”. “Cox was set to carry the pageant up until about a week ago when NBC and Univision both opted out of broadcasting it. While we have carriage agreements with NBC and Univision, we do not have a carriage agreement with Reelz”.
In the Huffington Post, TV personality and activist America Herrera wrote that Trump’s commentary about Mexicans were extremely rude and discriminating.