Donald Trump News Roundup: Miss USA Ratings, Nazi Twitter Campaign, National Poll Lead & Iran Deal
Donald Trump may be rich and famous, but even his name can't save a pageant.
In fact, in this case, it seems that his attachment is the very reason for the Miss USA decline in viewership.
In Sunday's airing of the annual beauty pageant, CNN reported that Miss USA only managed to bring in about 925,000 viewers - a far cry from last year's 5.5 million on NBC, according to the numbers released by Nielsen ratings measurement company.
This is the first time that Miss USA was broadcasted in a network other than NBC since 2003, but after Trump, who owns half the Miss USA Organization made racist remarks about Mexican immigrants during his presidential announcement speech in June, Univision dropped the pageant in protest, followed closely by NBC.
Network Reelz saved the pageant by stepping in to air the event. While the numbers may be a record low to Miss USA, CNN said that it may be among the highest for Reelz as a somewhat obscure cable channel.
The pageant was only second to the network's highest premiere - the 2011 mini-series "The Kennedys."
In other Trump news, the face of the new Republican frontrunner for the President of the United States just made a major faux pas in a photo that he tweeted to his 3.2 million followers: the soldiers photoshopped into a red stripe in his campaign poster showed not members of the US Armed Forces, but that of the Nazis.
The photo used, as it turned out, is a stock image available online of re-enactors, as uncovered by The Guardian, and not of actual SS Soldiers. In respones, the Trump campaign deleted the tweet and blamed the incident on "a young intern."
Trump's campaign spokesperson said, "A young intern created and posted the image and did not see the very faded figures within the flag of the stock photo. The intern apologized and immediately deleted the tweet."
Before the Nazi photo, nationwide survey showed that he's still leading in the Republican field, with 15 competitors and owning 17% support. He is closely followed by Florida governor Jeb Bush with 14%. However, these numbers could change depending on how people will view his Nazi slip-up.
As for the deal that President Obama made with Iran, Trump told NBC News, "I don't understand the president. He dealt from desperation, and he shouldn't have been desperate."
He later added, ""You know the Iranians are going to cheat. They're great negotiators and you know they're going to cheat."