Miss America Contestant Crashes and Burns With Blatant, Trump-Bashing Answer
So the first swimsuit-less Miss America pageant is definitely underway, and the inherent promise that we were going to be seeing a battle of intellectual and rhetorical heavyweights hasn’t quite panned out.
In fairness, as Fox News points out, the interview questions were limited to 20 seconds, which is virtually nothing. This is what’s replaced the swimsuit section, which is supposed to be an improvement. I give up.
Anyhow, the big headlines from the interview portion went to Miss West Virginia, who thought that the biggest issue facing the nation was not, say, North Korean denuclearization or entitlements or terrorism, but instead the president.
“Donald Trump is the biggest issue our country faces. Unfortunately he has caused a lot of division in our country,” Madeline Collins told the pageant during her time onstage in Atlantic City.
Collins didn’t win the interview portion — which, to be fair, went to Miss Massachusetts Gabriela Taveras for a not-exactly-world-beating response on how Americans should act abroad.
Taveras, according to Fox, said it’s important to let citizens of other countries know that “we as Americans are supporting them and that we are there to help them.” Okay.
Needless to say, though, Miss West Virginia got a lot of liberal praise on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/LEONARDSIMPSON/status/1038501315180154880
https://twitter.com/Dwightsrealnews/status/1038606066920054784
https://twitter.com/RightIsRightLV/status/1038564553724850176
Of course, it should probably seem a bit curious that the same people are also praising Democrats who are sowing this exact division.
And Collins’ comment got plenty of backlash, too.
Nothing bold about being in denial. Put the blame where it belongs. At the lefts feet. So much for a career for this dolt.
— Georgia Deplorable since 2015 (@Schnowzerz) September 9, 2018
Disgraceful comment! She doesn't deserve the crown. Unamerican comment, she has insulted a large percentage of the American People.
— Dr. Miguel Elias (@drmiguelelias) September 8, 2018
As it so happened, Miss West Virginia’s remarks came on the same day that Barack Obama gave his big speech at the University of Illinois in which he claimed that Republicans were stoking “divisions” in America.
Marco Rubio had a little history lesson for the president:
Pres. Obama is right. It is wrong for a President to use divisive language, such as:
1. Call all opponents of same-sex marriage bigots
2. Call the Pro-Life movement a "War on Women"
3. Call all immigration enforcement advocates racists
4. Call the GOP the enemy of Hispanics— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 8, 2018
Barack Obama on people left behind by new economy: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter,they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 8, 2018
Barack Obama spent eight years dividing the country.
Democrats have been dividing it continuously since the Iraq War. That’s about 15 years of hyperpartisanship, brought to you exclusively by the party that Donald Trump isn’t a part of.
All of a sudden, Trump is elected and division is a major problem?
Collins, to be fair, was given only 20 seconds, but she couldn’t really bring up facts or reflect on our recent history.
This was just her opinion, and she’s certainly entitled to it. Maybe she should have looked at the real root of division before she took the stage, instead.
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