Miss Texas ‘does not hold back’ when asked about President Trump and white supremacy

Margana Wood praised for criticising Trump's reaction to Charlottesville attack last month

Miss Texas
'Miss Texas' Margana Wood speaks in the Q&A portion of the 2018 Miss America contest
(Image credit: Donald Kravitz/Getty)

It is a tired cliche that beauty pageants are not known for their contestants’ razor-sharp analyses of the world’s political problems.

But this weekend during the Miss America beauty pageant, Miss Texas Margana Wood was asked to evaluate President Trump’s response to the white supremacist march in Charlottesville last month and she “did not hold back”, says Buzzfeed News.

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