"Go 'Head": Trump Gives Nod for Security to Eject Latino Journalist

With eye contact and a short “Go ‘head” to a swift-moving member of his security team, Republican presidential candidate and billionaire media personality Donald Trump appeared to authorize the physical ejection of Univision’s anchor Jorge Ramos from a press event on Tuesday evening.

Captured by numerous cameras at the event in Iowa, the display of disdain for Ramos and his line of questioning focused on Trump’s controversial policy ideas surrounding immigration first saw the real estate mogul tell Ramos to “sit down” and “Go back to Univision” before the security team member moved across the stage closely behind the candidate to remove the well-known journalist from the room.

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Subsequently—and despite what witnesses to the episode can judge for themselves based on the video—Trump said it was not his decision to kick out Ramos.

As the Huffington Post reports:

Ramos was let back in to the event minutes later and took the opportunity to ask a number of questions. Watch the exchange:

Meanwhile, Trump continues to paralyze the punditry class by confounding traditional understandings of what a candidate for the nation’s highest office is able to get away with. While polls find that Trump continues to lead the large field of Republican candidates, others note that television executives are elated by the ratings bonanza that Trump is providing to both cable news and the major networks.

For progressive critics of Trump, however, the spectacle of Trump’s campaign speaks to an ever darker side of America’s contemporary political landscape. In an essay for Common Dreams on Tuesday, Christian Christensen, a professor of journalism at Stockholm University in Sweden, said that Trump’s candidacy is nothing more than political “junk food” for a global audience that is exuberant to see the hubris and crassness of the American stereotype so wonderfully exemplified in the billionaire real estate mogul who became a reality TV star before ultimately running for president.

Comparing the substantive and populist-driven campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders—which he wishes was “afforded the international media oxygen given to people like Trump”—Christensen writes: