Mexican F1 Driver Sergio Perez Just Told A Sponsor To GTFO After Trump Joke
Force India driver Sergio Perez wasn’t terribly pleased with sunglasses manufacturer Hawkers this week, after its Mexican Twitter profile Tweeted out a Donald Trump-related joke.
The Tweet - which is shown below but has since been deleted from the account - suggested that Mexicans should buy the company’s sunglasses to hide their tears once President Elect Trump takes power and builds his infamous (and stupidly implausible) proposed border wall.
Naturally, that didn’t go down so well with Perez, who then publicly dropped Hawkers as a sponsor. Ouch.
Hemos borrado los Tweets ofensivos para no ofender a nadie más. De nuevo, #losentimosdecorazonMéxico;— hawkersmx
The company has since issued numerous apologies from the account, although Perez does not seem to have commented further on the matter.
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Comments
The irony? He ditched them for being bad hombres…
Honestly, what a stupid thing for a company to say in any language.
Well done Hawkers MX… .Well done!!!
Sponsor is spelt wrong
well HAWKERS MX should wear their sunglasses to hide their tears after being publicly shamed
What a stone cold savage. Mad respect
Although I think people should be less easily offended if someone jokes about their country this joke was just disgusting and Hawkers deserves to be publicly shamed.
Thecrazyman Abel Bryan Aquino esta gente se pasaron demasiado loco
When a comming soon US president want to increase to 35% the taxes to the car we send there for sale, we get fear/anger here at México, an more if like 3/4 of the cars we manafacure here are sold on the US. Well, at least we will be forced to keep the best quality cars instead of the “cheaps” (See Versa 2016 vs Tsuru 2015; both are build here at México)
Since when is saying hombre a bad thing. I didnt realize speaking a foreign language could be construed as racist. If i were ti say bad hombre in a equivalent french or german translation would that be racist too?