Donald Trump didn't show up for the Miss USA competition

On Sunday, Olivia Jordan of Oklahoma was crowned Miss USA, but Donald Trump wasn't there to watch it happen.

The beauty pageant's co-owner announced Saturday he wouldn't be in attendance because he's out on the campaign trail, Reuters reports. The Miss USA pageant became mired in controversy after Trump stated during his presidential campaign kick-off last month that immigrants from Mexico are "rapists" who bring drugs and crime to the U.S. Hosts Thomas Roberts of MSNBC and Cheryl Burke of Dancing With the Stars both dropped out, as did several judges and guests. NBC also announced it would not air the program, and it was picked up by the cable channel Reelz.

The pageant was broadcast live from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Jordan, a 26-year-old actress, won the competition after answering a question about race in the United States. "We still need to talk about race relations in the country, we have not solved this issue," she said. "We really need to work on being an accepting society."

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