...It has only taken on a "racism" context due to Trump's repeated ridiculous comments about illegal immigrants and Mexicans, and the fact that it was a reporter from a Spanish-language channel...
One has to perceive the comments as 'ridiculous' before one can consider condemning them.
Vast numbers of your fellow countrymen are perceiving this differently; an inevitable and predictable reaction to decades of government intransigence and failure to protect the interests of American Citizens in this context, and the sudden appearance of someone willing to articulate that anger and frustration, propose radical corrective measures (that should have been in place eons ago, long before this problem became damned-near un-manageable) and not sweat the brickbats and PC Squad harping about the verbiage.
It's convenient for the Left to try to spin the Trump Phenomenon as the resurgence of racism and prejudice in this country, but a good, hard, long look in the mirror, and an objective analysis of the anger and frustration long-held by so many Americans, will reveal, instead, something far less sinister and more in need of remedy than the Left can publicly admit.
...Aside from that, it's simply another example of Trump's fragile ego.
Maybe. I dunno. There's no denying that he's got an ego the size of Texas, but, as to its fragility, he looks a little more Teflon-Don -ish than that.
Then again, I don't have a credible grounding in psychology, so, I really can't say.
I'm not a Trump fan, although I'm
greatly enjoying the resurgence of Anti-Illegals sentiment in the country, and hope the guy holds on for a long time, before he has to bow-out or before he shoots himself in the foot or before the Pubs drum him out of the service. He would probably be a nightmare as President but he does good service in the interim.