Mexico media giant Televisa pulls the plug on Miss Universe broadcasts over Trump’s remarks

“They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some I assume are good people,” he said in opening his campaign at Trump Tower on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.

Trump released a statement Monday saying that he is no longer affiliated with NBC and stands by his comments on immigration. Miss U.S. has aired on NBC since 2003 and this year’s edition was set for July 12; NBC said it hasn’t been determined what will air in its place.

Ora TV, a production company co-founded by Slim and TV personality Larry King and funded by America Movil, cancelled a program it was working on with some of Trump’s companies, Slim’s spokesman and son-in-law Arturo Elias said.

Donald Trump, host of the television series “The Celebrity Apprentice,” mugs for photographers at the NBC 2015 Winter TCA Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., in January. The network plans to try to continue “Celebrity Apprentice” without Trump as its colorful center, but a previous effort, 2005’s short-lived “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart,” failed to find an audience.

“First of all, I love the Mexican people”, he said.

The move extends the damage to Trump’s media ventures in Mexico, where Televisa has broadcast the billionaire real-estate investor’s Miss Universe pageant.

“[Trump’s] comments were an insult to our culture; I won’t sponsor anything produced by Donald Trump,” Sanchez said. “Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump”.

On Monday, when Trump spoke to a sold-out crowd of 350 people at the City Club in Chicago, a crowd of protesters, many of them Latinos, demonstrated outside, Chicago media reported.

He also pledged to build a “great wall” on the American border with Mexico and insisted it would be paid for by Mexicans. He also took a sideswipe at NBC’s decision to demote, but not fire news anchor Brian Williams for telling false stories about some of the reporting he was involved in.

Hispanic and migrant advocacy groups slammed Trump, while Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton called his remarks inflammatory. Similarly, a petition urging the same thing on the Change.org website had gathered more than 218,000 signatures.

Public outrage and pressure followed, then the decisions by Univision and NBC. Their chants included “No more hate!” “It is racism”, she said.

Although this issue will undoubtedly affect the financial status of Trump considering his investments in the network, it remains to be seen whether it will even make a dent on his massive net worth.