A friend sent me this link. I had actually seen a reference to this story in my meanderings on the web, but had gotten distracted and it went right down the old memory hole.
Anyway, it seems there is probable cause to believe that Willard had his skin (temporarily) darkened for his appearance on Univision, a television network with a largely Hispanic audience.
53% of my brain can’t believe he would have done it, but 47% of my brain is not at all sure. It is completely consistent with the contempt in which he holds ordinary people, a contempt which is no doubt more pronounced if they have skin colors close to that he was perhaps trying to duplicate.
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