Trump sticks with Mexico 'rape' slur

Donald Trump isn't backing down.

Univision dumped him. Then NBCUniversal did too. And now more than 700,000 people are calling for Macy's to do the same.

Amid the backlash over his comments about Mexican immigrants who he said are "bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists," the billionaire and TV reality star is doubling down.

"Mexico is killing US on trade," Trump tweeted on Tuesday morning. "They're killing us at the border and they're killing us on jobs and trade. FIGHT!"

The Republican presidential candidate added that he loves "the Mexican people, but Mexico is not our friend" and that the US must beef up its border security and stop illegal immigration.

Mexico isn't taking the comments lightly either, with the country's pageant director Lupita Jones announcing later on Tuesday that Mexico will pull out of the Miss Universe pageant because of what she called Trump's "racist comments."

The comments were no different from those Trump has made in the nearly two weeks since he launched his presidential campaign and first made the controversial remarks.

He's stuck to his rhetoric -- with the addition that he loves Mexicans and Latinos -- and continued to insist that undocumented immigrants pouring into the US from Mexico are neither that country's "best" nor their "brightest" -- and that many are criminals, though not citing any specific statistics to back up that assertion.