Actor John Leguizamo called out Univision on “The Daily Show” for interviewing former President Donald Trump.
John Leguizamo explodes on Univision for platforming Trump, compares interview to excrement https://t.co/eJax2P9L1v
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 24, 2023
The actor, who has been critical of Trump for years, compared the interview to excrement.
From Fox News:
“I don’t know what is more shocking,” Leguizamo said, “that Univision gave Trump a softball interview or that Trump let a Latin guy into his house?”
“How did that happen? Did he think he was there to mow the lawn?” the left-wing actor joked.
Journalist Enrique Acevedo sat down with Trump for a wide-ranging interview from Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, and some liberals have expressed outrage that the Spanish-language network offered a platform to the former president. Others have insisted liberal anchor Jorge Ramos should have conducted the interview because he would have pushed back harder on Trump’s comments.
Leguizamo specifically named Acevedo in his monologue, also claiming that Univision has let the Latino community down.
“For decades, Univision has been the channel that Latinos have trusted for news, whether it’s news about the world, or news about a sexy lady miner willing to go up against the most powerful woman in town — for amor,” Leguizamo joked, showing a picture of a movie.
The actor said that while there is “nothing wrong with Univision interviewing Trump,” the problem was that the outlet missed an opportunity to “confront” him.
“I thought it would be a dope opportunity to confront him on his hardline anti-Latino policies,” Leguizamo said. “But instead of an interview worthy of Univision, we saw this caca mierda,” a crude term roughly translating to excrement.
Leguizamo also mocked the questions that Trump was asked during his Univision interview. “Mr. Trump, why are you so beloved by the Latino community?'” he said, making fun of Acevedo’s questions to Trump.
“And just to be clear, we Latinos are not a monolith,” he continued. “There are some of us that do support Trump. In my family we refer to him as ‘the uncle who doesn’t get invited to Thanksgiving.’ But that’s just my house.”
Leguizamo concluded that “Univision has a responsibility to fully report what a second Trump presidency could mean” for Latinos in the U.S. “And the truth is that that s— is mad scary,” he said.
The actor previously criticized Univision for cancelling ad-buys for the Biden campaign while running Trump ads.
Actor John Leguizamo isn’t happy that Univision has cancelled any ad-buys from the Biden campaign and will only run Trump ads.
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