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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 10:02 AM Mar 2018

Trump vetoed Miss Universe contestants for being "too ethnic" or "too dark-skinned"



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trump-vetoed-miss-universe-contestants-ethnic-dark-skinned-report/

Now a new report published by Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones’ David Corn claims that Trump would also veto certain contestants if he deemed them to be “too ethnic.”

Specifically, one former Miss Universe staffer tells them that Trump would personally “make changes” to the list of finalists “if there were too many women of color” on it.

Another former Miss Universe staffer similarly tells them that Trump would weed out candidates who were too “dark-skinned.”

“He often thought a woman was too ethnic or too dark-skinned,” the staffer explains. “He had a particular type of woman he thought was a winner. Others were too ethnic. He liked a type. There was Olivia Culpo, Dayanara Torres [the 1993 winner], and, no surprise, East European women.”
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Trump vetoed Miss Universe contestants for being "too ethnic" or "too dark-skinned" (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2018 OP
In other words IluvPitties Mar 2018 #1
Oh...breaking news that these were always fixed... HipChick Mar 2018 #2
His base will love that he did this NewJeffCT Mar 2018 #3
The least racist person we know. SummerSnow Mar 2018 #4
Also from the OP GusBob Mar 2018 #5

IluvPitties

(3,181 posts)
1. In other words
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 10:13 AM
Mar 2018

White Hispanic women like Dayanara and Eastern European, with a person of color thrown in here and there.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
5. Also from the OP
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 10:49 AM
Mar 2018

He would kick out the ones who spurned his advances

also in the link is a story how Trump&co all went to a raunchy club in Vegas that had pee-acts on stage

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