Donald Trump Didn’t Think Business Backlash Against Illegal Immigrants Would Be “Severe”

Donald Trump has slammed illegal immigrants in the United States for the last few weeks and he has faced a lot of backlash for it. Sponsors and networks alike have pulled away from "The Donald" and his comments lost him millions upon millions of dollars. Despite what some call disparaging remarks, Trump claims he didn't realize the repercussions of running for President with this platform would be "quite this severe."

"I knew it was going to be bad because I was told this. All my life I have been told this: If you are successful, you don't run for office," Trump told Fox News.

"I didn't know it was going to be quite this severe, but I really knew it was going to be bad."

The backlash stems from comments such as this one:

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," Trump said last month during his Presidential announcement. "They're sending people that have lots of problems ... they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

After that Trump lost NBC, Macy's, Univision and the mattress company Serta. They felt his comments were unfair toward the Latino community in the United States.

Trump has since fought back. After losing Univision, he sued the company for $500 million. With the announcement of his lawsuit, Trump, of course, had a statement.

"It seems like I'm sort of the whipping post because I bring it up. And I don't understand whether you are liberal or whether you are conservative or whether you are Republican, Democrat – why wouldn't you talk about a problem?" Trump said. "The crime is raging. It's violent, and people don't want to even talk about it. If you talk about it, you are a racist. I don't understand it."