CHICAGO — It is not often that rhetoric from a political candidate finds its way into the sporting arena, but the recent remarks about immigration by the presidential candidate Donald Trump have caused the P.G.A. of America to remove a tournament from one of the golf courses he operates and prompted ESPN and Nascar to remove award events from Trump’s properties.
And when Mexico’s national soccer team opened the Concacaf Gold Cup against Cuba here Thursday, Trump’s assertion that Mexicans coming to the United States were drug traffickers, rapists and other criminals — “some, I assume, are good people,” he allowed — did not go unnoticed.