Trump Campaign Reportedly Cancels Interview After Hearing Journalist Speak Spanish

By his own account, ochre taco bowler Donald Trump “loves Hispanics.” When it comes to the language that unites them, however, the Republican nominee’s representatives are apparently far less affectionate.

Citing an unnamed source, BuzzFeed News reports that the Trump campaign called off a planned interview with an Argentine journalist after overhearing him speak Spanish:

Marcos Stupenengo, a freelance correspondent working for TV Azteca, got an interview with Donald Trump — initially. He had no trouble when he asked to come to Trump Tower in New York on Monday to interview the bombastic presumptive Republican nominee.

But as he waited to conduct the interview, Stupenengo received a call, and began speaking in Spanish. That’s when the Trump campaign informed him they had no interest in taking part in an interview with him, according to a source with knowledge of the incident.

According to BuzzFeed’s source, a Spanish-speaking Secret Service agent assigned to Trump then told Stupenengo he was sorry and “didn’t know what was happening.”

The Trump campaign and Stupenengo did not immediately respond to Gawker’s requests for comment.

If accurate, the incident wouldn’t be the Trump campaign’s first dust up with a journalist representing Spanish-language television. During a confrontation with Univision’s Jorge Ramos last August, Trump told the news anchor, “Go back to Univision.”