--- title: Little Miss Flint Criticizes Donald Trump For Broken Promise description: Amariyanna Copeny, 9, called out Trump during a protest in front of the White House on Thursday canonical: https://time.com/4741203/little-miss-flint-criticize-donald-trump-promise-water/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-14T22:03:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:25:54.341Z article:section: Politics og:title: 'Little Miss Flint' Says President Trump Broke Promise to Fix Water Crisis og:description: "He was not so very nice to me at all" og:url: https://time.com/4741203/little-miss-flint-criticize-donald-trump-promise-water/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte518542701612a24/6988c2f37cdbac1c04d57e7f/little-miss-flint-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Children And Youth Hold "Stand Up To Trump" Rally At The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Little Miss Flint' Says President Trump Broke Promise to Fix Water Crisis twitter:description: "He was not so very nice to me at all" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte518542701612a24/6988c2f37cdbac1c04d57e7f/little-miss-flint-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 9-Year-Old 'Little Miss Flint' Says President Trump 'Failed to Keep' Promise to Fix Water Crisis by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Apr 14, 2017 10:03 PM UTC  Amariyanna Copeny, also known as Little Miss Flint, speaks during the "Stand Up to Trump" rally outside the White House April 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. Amariyanna Copeny, also known as Little Miss Flint, speaks during the "Stand Up to Trump" rally outside the White House April 13, 2017 in Washington, DC.Aaron P. Bernstein—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Apr 14, 2017 10:03 PM UTC The little girl who made headlines last year after writing a letter that[ convinced President Obama to visit her hometown of Flint, Mich.](http://time.com/4310492/8-year-old-flint-girl-letter-obama/) while it was undergoing a contaminated [water crisis](http://time.com/4441471/flint-water-lead-poisoning-costs/) criticized President Trump for breaking his promise to address the same issue. Amariyanna Copeny, 9, who goes by Mari, called out Trump during a protest in front of the White House on Thursday, according to [video from the Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-little-miss-flint-speech%5Fus%5F58f06aa0e4b0da2ff85fbba0). “President Trump also came to Flint. I met him,” Copeny said after commending Obama for visiting Flint. “\[Trump\] was not so very nice to me at all.” Copeny, also known as [“Little Miss Flint”](http://time.com/4320022/barack-obama-mari-copeny-flint-michigan/) after winning a beauty pageant, said Trump didn’t let her ask any questions during his visit. She then criticized the President for not [addressing the water crisis in Flint](http://time.com/4495133/donald-trump-flint-nervous-interruption/) since taking office. “On the campaign trail, he promised he would fix Flint,” she said. “Unfortunately, this was one promise that he failed to keep, just like his promise to make America great again.” Flint faced a drinking water emergency after city officials belatedly confirmed in 2015 that the water supply was contaminated with lead and had poisoned local children. In January 2017, officials announced that the water supply no longer exceeded the federal lead limit, but it is still not considered safe to drink. In March, the Environmental Protection Agency [awarded Michigan $100 million ](https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-awards-100-million-michigan-flint-water-infrastructure-upgrades)to upgrade Flint’s water infrastructure, using [funds Congress approved under Obama](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/epa-100-million-flint/), according to CNN. > [](https://twitter.com/mmcauliff/status/852590659605319681) The promise Trump has kept, according to Copeny, is the one to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. “Trump is tearing families apart with his policies on immigration, and us kids are here to tell him, ‘no more,'” she said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4741203/little-miss-flint-criticize-donald-trump-promise-water/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4741203/little-miss-flint-criticize-donald-trump-promise-water/"},"headline":"9-Year-Old 'Little Miss Flint' Says President Trump 'Failed to Keep' Promise to Fix Water Crisis","datePublished":"2017-04-14T22:03:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:25:54.341Z","description":"\"He was not so very nice to me at all\"","url":"https://time.com/4741203/little-miss-flint-criticize-donald-trump-promise-water/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte518542701612a24/6988c2f37cdbac1c04d57e7f/little-miss-flint-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte518542701612a24/6988c2f37cdbac1c04d57e7f/little-miss-flint-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Children And Youth Hold \"Stand Up To Trump\" Rally At The White House","caption":"Children And Youth Hold \"Stand Up To Trump\" Rally At The White House","creditText":"Aaron P. 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