Though Donald Trump
may no longer own the Miss USA beauty pageant, he can rest easy knowing
that his former venture is following his own political message. As Vanity Fair reports,
the newly crowned Miss USA Kara McCullough more or less echoed the
President's health care talking points during Sunday night's
competition.The
final question of the night's interview portion was whether or not the
contestants consider health care to be a privilege or a right.
McCullough, who works at the United States Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, responded that she "definitely" viewed it a privilege,
before segueing into a seemingly unrelated talking point about job
creation.“I’m
definitely going to say it’s a privilege. As a government employee, I
am granted health care," McCullough said. "And I see firsthand that for
one to have health care, you need to have jobs. So therefore we need to
continue to cultivate this environment that we’re given the opportunity
to have health care, as well as jobs, to all the American citizens
worldwide.”Representing
the District of Columbia—and heralded as "one of the most intelligent
contestants in recent memory"—McCullough also shared her thoughts on
feminism during the course of the competition. She expressed her belief
that women are "just as equal as men when it comes to opportunity in
the workplace" and that she's seen firsthand how women can affect
leadership in "medical sciences as well as in office environments." When
asked if she identifies as a feminist during an earlier question,
McCullough replied that the term feminism is too polarizing and she prefers to describe herself through a lens of "equalism."“As a woman scientist in the government, I’d like to transpose the word feminism to equalism,” she said. “I try not to consider myself this die-hard, like, 'I don’t really care about men.' ”(For reference, Merriam-Webster defines feminism as "the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes" not "the theory of not caring about men.")Unsurprisingly, the new Miss USA won not only the pageant but also a bevy of new conservative and alt-right supporters
thanks to her comments (left-leaning pageant watchers were less than
enthused by her answers). The President has offered no public remarks on
this year's winner—and, let's be real, there's little chance he
will—but one thing is safe to assume: Even if he supports what the new
Miss USA has to say, he'd be utterly dejected to learn that its ratings were down 27 percent since last year.
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