MONDAY, JUNE 29 This week of vaccination sanity, Girl Scout glory, and the unfortunate overlap of boners and American flags kicked off with Donald Trump, the yam-toned racist and ambulatory hair experiment who two weeks ago spiced up his presidential-campaign announcement by denouncing Mexican immigrants as drugged-up rapists and has been getting his ass kicked around the globe ever since. Today’s Trump-thumpers: NBCUniversal, which announced its severing of all business ties to Trump (including canceling planned broadcasts of the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants and removing Trump as host of Celebrity Apprentice), and Grupo Televisa SAB, the vast and powerful Spanish-language media company that also dumped plans to air Trump’s pageants and shows. (“In addition, the company, which owns the Mexican pageant that feeds into Miss Universe, said it would not be sending a Miss Mexico contestant this year,” reported CNN.) The rest of the week will see Trump lose business deals with Macy’s and NASCAR, while the man himself will steadfastly refuse to retract his “Mexicans are rapists” comments. “All I’m doing is telling the truth,” Trump will tell CNN’s Don Lemon on Wednesday, citing a Fusion report on sexual-assault statistics for Central American immigrants crossing Mexico.
After Lemon pointed out that the news reports had nothing to do with Mexican criminals coming across the border, the would-be GOP presidential hopeful was reduced to barking…
