Republican presidential candidate responded to a controversial viral video on Friday by calling it a "disgrace" and the filmmaker "stupid, to be honest."
The video, which depicts two Latino children using vulgar language to ridicule Trump's views on immigration, begins with a young boy, identified as "Ricardo," saying "F--- you, racist f---," before flipping Trump a middle finger. He and a little girl, "Rosa," go on to mock the GOP front-runner's attack on Hispanics who speak "Mexican."
"F--- you, [you] racist f---," Ricardo says. "If you don't like the Constitution and what it stands for, then get the f--- out of my country." It ends with the kids ready to bash a Trump-like piñata before an adult woman comes on screen and says Trump isn't filled with anything sweet, "just racist bulls---."
Hispanic advocacy group Deport Racism released the video in hopes NBC would pull the plug on Trump's scheduled "Saturday Night Live" appearance this weekend. They join a slew of other pro-immigration groups - like America's Voice and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus - who openly called for the network to renege; various organizations gathered outside NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters on Wednesday to hand-deliver over half a million signatures.
Deport Racism is offering $5,000 to SNL cast members and audience members if they state the group's name or "Trump is a Racist" during Saturday's live telecast.
"To have young kids using that kind of language is a disgrace... and people are actually going wild about it and they're saying 'we're now going to support Trump," he said during an interview on FOX Business Network's Maria Bartiromo on Friday. "Anybody that would do an ad like that is stupid to be honest. They're stupid people who would do an ad like that."
Trump said Deport Racism's ad backfired and that he was going to win the Hispanic vote because "they know I'm going to bring back jobs."
Cuban-American senator and the Republican Party's third-place presidential candidate Marco Rubio was more critical of the video, denouncing parents of the children who participated.
"First of all, it's counterproductive. Who do these groups think they're impressing by doing this?" Rubio asked "Fox and Friends" hosts Elizabeth Hasslebeck and Steve Doocy.
"They're not bringing anybody to their side. They're turning people off. People are looking at it and say, these people are grotesque. I mean these are little children. What kind of parent allows their children to go on a video like that and use that kind of profanity and what kind of parents allow a kid to do that?"
Watch Deport Racism's YouTube video below.
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