Days after bosses at Spanish-language network Univision pulled their coverage of Trump's Miss USA pageant and co-hosts Cristian de la Fuente and Roselyn Sanchez quit the show, critics have launched a Change.org petition calling for NBC chiefs to axe Miss USA, the Miss Universe pageant and The Apprentice.

The author of the petition, Guillermo Castaneda Jr., writes, "A few days ago, one of your TV reality show stars by the name of Donald Trump, decided to announce his candidacy for the largest public position in the United States, the presidency. He called Latinos, not only Mexicans, rapists, drug users and criminals.

"I am not a rapist, I have never taken drugs, and the worst thing I have ever done is going fast on the freeway from time to time. I am not worth $4.1 billion, but my people spend way more than that on your advertisers. We have a voice and we decide the future of this country.

"Please cancel Miss USA, Miss Universe and The Apprentice. You are supporting a hateful and narcissistic individual without any kind of values, both personal and business wise

"Not only that, but you are supporting a growing trend of bigotry and division in this country. Mr. Trump does not need to apologize anymore... He needs to be shown that his behavior belongs in the past before the civil rights movement."

More than 180,000 people had signed his petition as WENN went to press.

Trump upset Latinos and Americans alike when he said, "The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best... They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

"It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America."