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Ricky Martin to Donald Trump: “You’re fired!”

You can add Ricky Martin to the quickly growing list of those who have dumped Donald Trump.

Martin is outraged by Trump’s comments two weeks ago that immigrants from Mexico are ‘bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists.’

So much so that the openly gay singer is moving the annual Ricky Martin Foundation charity golf event away from Trump’s International Golf Club Rio Grande in Martin’s native Puerto Rico.

A new location has not yet been announced.

Helga García, a spokesperson for Martin, said in a statement: ‘This decision corresponds to the commitment of solidarity from our founding president to human rights and the Latino community.’

Martin had taken to Twitter last week to say he thinks Trump’s heart is filled with ‘hate and ignorance.’

Trump made his controversial remarks when he announced that he is a candidate for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

Since then, NBC-Universal has cut business ties with Trump including the airing of his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants and removing him as the force behind the reality competition The Apprentice.

Macy’s department store chain, which carried a line of Trump menswear, also dumped the real estate mogul.

Trump has refused to apologize for his comments and he has been surging in several national polls of Republican candidates.

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  1. July 6th, 2015 at 8:29 am
    K. Martinez says:

    Good for you, Mr. Martin. Solidarity works wonders. And good for the companies dumping Trump. The Republicans just like to shit on everybody. From blacks, Latinos and people of non-Christian faith, to immigrants, LGBT and woman and on down the line. Who’s left? Old white conservatives and religious nut jobs. Party of inclusion it ain’t. I hope for the day when that mentality dies out completely.

  2. Bravo for Ricky Martin!! — His action in moving his charity golf tournament off a Donald Trump course was definitely one far more of conscience than politics. Moreover, it was an appropriate response to Trump’s initial statements — which he has time and again refused to walk back or apologize for — which went far beyond the issue of border security and immigration — both legal and illegal — into the realm of outright bigotry on the bombastic presidential candidate’s part. The killer line was when Trump said he supposed some of them (meaning Latino immigrants) were good people. That is the same mantra so often repeated by the anti-segregationists during the Civil Rights Movement. Now, Martin & others are showing Trump that one’s words have consequences.

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