--- title: Miss Texas Criticizes Donald Trump Over Charlotteville description: While Miss North Dakota took the Miss America crown, Miss Texas also made a political statement about white supremacy and terrorism. canonical: https://time.com/4935917/miss-texas-trump/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-11T16:54:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:09.106Z og:title: Miss Texas Did Not Hold Back About President Trump's Response to Charlottesville og:description: "It was very obvious that it was a terrorist attack." og:url: https://time.com/4935917/miss-texas-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt099140339817d8dd/6988dd3dcf40a8dcfec4954e/margana-wood-miss-texas.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2018 Miss America Competition - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Miss Texas Did Not Hold Back About President Trump's Response to Charlottesville twitter:description: "It was very obvious that it was a terrorist attack." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt099140339817d8dd/6988dd3dcf40a8dcfec4954e/margana-wood-miss-texas.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Miss Texas Did Not Hold Back About President Trump's Response to Charlottesville  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 11, 2017 4:54 PM UTC  ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - SEPTEMBER 10: Miss Texas 2017 Margana Wood participates in Question challenge during the 2018 Miss America Competition Show at Boardwalk Hall Arena on September 10, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Photo by Donald Kravitz/Getty Images for Dick Clark Productions) ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - SEPTEMBER 10: Miss Texas 2017 Margana Wood participates in Question challenge during the 2018 Miss America Competition Show at Boardwalk Hall Arena on September 10, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Photo by Donald Kravitz/Getty Images for Dick Clark Productions)Donald Kravitz—Getty Images for Dick Clark Productions  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 11, 2017 4:54 PM UTC On Sunday night, Miss North Dakota Cara Mund [took the crown](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/11/entertainment/miss-america-2018/index.html) as 2018’s Miss America pageant queen. But one of the runners-up, Miss Texas Margana Wood, may have stolen the show. During a question and answer section of the televised pageant, PEOPLE’s Jess Cagle asked Wood about recent [white supremacist activity](http://time.com/4917524/joe-biden-trump-charlottesville-response/) in the U.S. “Last month a demonstration of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK in Charlottesville Virginia turned violent and a counterprotester was killed. The president said there was shared blame with quote, very fine people on both sides. Were there? Tell me yes or no and explain,” Cagle asked. “I think that the white supremacist issue, it was very obvious that it was a terrorist attack. And I think that President Donald Trump should’ve made a statement earlier addressing the fact, and in making sure all Americans feel safe in this country. That is the number one issue right now,” Wood stated firmly. She’s been getting quite a bit of support online for her unequivocal response, too. > [](https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/907083544303869952) > [](https://twitter.com/UnrealPotus45/status/907145817160646662) > [](https://twitter.com/epollaert/status/907096241070211072) > [](https://twitter.com/TheTellurian/status/907085261279985664) > [](https://twitter.com/maggiesmom1%5Fmom/status/907087137182543872) Meanwhile, Mund was asked about Trump’s move away from the [Paris Climate Agreement](http://time.com/4858221/donald-trump-emmanuel-macron-paris-climate-agreement/). Mund, who has political ambitions, also disagreed with Trump’s choice. “There is evidence that climate change is existing,” she said. “So whether you believe it or not, we need to be at that table, and I think it’s just a bad decision on behalf of the United States.” > [](https://twitter.com/MissAmerica/status/907074031916007425) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4935917/miss-texas-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4935917/miss-texas-trump/"},"headline":"Miss Texas Did Not Hold Back About President Trump's Response to Charlottesville","datePublished":"2017-09-11T16:54:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:09.106Z","description":"While Miss North Dakota took the Miss America crown, Miss Texas also made a political statement about white supremacy and terrorism.","url":"https://time.com/4935917/miss-texas-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Texas","viral","North Dakota","Donald Trump","miss america","Charlottesville"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt099140339817d8dd/6988dd3dcf40a8dcfec4954e/margana-wood-miss-texas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt099140339817d8dd/6988dd3dcf40a8dcfec4954e/margana-wood-miss-texas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2018 Miss America Competition - Show","caption":"2018 Miss America Competition - Show","creditText":"Donald Kravitz—Getty Images for Dick Clark Productions","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4935917/miss-texas-trump/","name":"Miss Texas Did Not Hold Back About President Trump's Response to Charlottesville"}}]}] ```