Mexican-born actress Salma Hayek is so mad at Donald Trump that she cannot even utter his name

BY Ethan Sacks       

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Thursday, July 30, 2015, 6:01 PM

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Salma Hayek recently accepted an award for a "Decade of Hotness" — and she's certainly fired up about an anti-Mexican GOP candidate whose name she could not even say.

He’s the candidate that must remain nameless.
Salma Hayek wouldn’t even say the word “Trump” when asked how she felt after the GOP candidate assailed Mexican immigrants as “rapists” flowing across the border.
“Because I know him a little bit, is it’s a mistake to respond because he will use this to promote himself,” Hayek told the News about the presidential front-runner. “The Mexican community may be upset that I wasn’t saying something…but I refuse to utter his name and allow him to use me for self-promotion.”
Expectations were high because Hayek is the highest-profile star of Mexican descent in Hollywood and known as an advocate against discrimination against immigrants.

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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said some things about Mexican immigrants that enraged Salma Hayek — not that she would utter his name in response.

But Hayek refused to follow the script. Besides, she sees a silver lining in how Trump’s comments underscored the prejudice immigrants face.
“We have not, as Americans, grasped the level, the size, of the problem of discrimination in this country,” she says. “We have been living a lie pretending we’re a country that no longer discriminates.”
Hayek made what seemed like a deft reference to Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe pageant and his “Apprentice” job on NBC. “I will say this: America is not a beauty pageant. America is not a reality show,” she says. “The reality of America and the world is tougher.”

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