“Diversity and inclusion are core values at ESPN”, the sports network said in a written statement.
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The sports authority chose to abandon Mr. Trump because proceeds from its classic actually go towards the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund which donates money to medical research funds specifically for minorities…
Donald Trump at the Freedom Summit, a forum for GOP Presidential hopefuls in Greenville, South Carolina on May 9, 2015.
ESPN’s announcement comes just days after Los Angeles Galaxy yanked its planned charity golf tournament at Trump National Golf Club in reaction to Trump’s campaign kickoff speech.
A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Outside of a few retweets on Twitter, Trump hasn’t issued a formal response to ESPN’s decision.
Trump’s Miss US telecast has been dropped from Univision and will now broadcast on Reelz on July 12.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best”, Trump said of illegal immigration in the US. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems… they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime”. Trump has sued Univision for $500 million.
Mr. Trump ranked second in a recent national poll, and he has registered among the top Republican candidates in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire-though surveys also show many voters in his own party have an unfavorable view of him. All my life I have been told this: “If you are successful, you don’t run for office…I didn’t know it was going to be quite this severe, but I really knew it was going to be bad”. But he hasn’t asked for a mulligan either.
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Many have criticized Trump, including one resident of Mexico who built a piñata depicting Trump in Reynosa.
