Trump entered through a side entrance of Maggiano’s Banquets, 111 W. Grand Ave., as about 100 protesters outside chanted, “Hate speech is not presidential!” The jeers were in response to comments Trump made about Mexicans, calling many undocumented immigrants “rapists,” in his speech declaring himself a Republican presidential candidate.
“I love Mexico,” Trump insisted Monday, “but every time I talk about it they accuse me of being a racist.”
Trump cited a Huffington Post story pulled from Fusion suggesting that 80 percent of Mexican women and girls crossing the U.S. border are raped along the way, adding, “There is no apology, because what I said is right.”