Donald Trump: Losing ESPN and NASCAR—No Big Deal!

Master entrepreneur that he is, the presidential candidate is busy making lemonade.

Business mogul/TV personality Donald Trump attends the Success by Trump fragrance launch at Macy's Herald Square on April 18, 2012 in New York City.
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By Kathy Kiely

July 7, 2015 at 9:41 PM UTC

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Hours after news the Republican presidential candidate acknowledged that the PGA is pulling a tournament from one of his golf courses, he lambasted two other ex-customers for cancelling their events. In a press release bearing his corporate Trump Organization logo, Trump blasted ESPN for backing out of a separate golf event originally set for a Trump property, and NASCAR for cancelling a banquet. The language was hardly corporate.

Written in the first person, the statement included notes of exasperation—“Give me a break!”—and a promise to re-book the “magnificent” spaces the two sporting groups, concerned about bad publicity over Trump's comments on immigrants, had bailed on. “I get two fees instead of one,” said Trump.