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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump 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
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IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)1. In other words
White Hispanic women like Dayanara and Eastern European, with a person of color thrown in here and there.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)2. Oh...breaking news that these were always fixed...
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)3. His base will love that he did this
sadly
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)4. The least racist person we know.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)5. Also from the OP
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