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Trump Calls Columbian Miss Universe ‘Hypocrite’ for Keeping Crown Despite Criticism

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Paulina Vega, Miss Colombia 2014 is crowned the winner on stage at the conclusion of The 63rd Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Pageant, broadcast live from the FIU Arena in Doral-Miami, Florida on January 25, 2015 at 8:00 PM ET on NBC. HO/Miss Universe Organization L.P., LLLP

*The reigning Miss Universe has refused to give up her crown despite joining the tide of condemnation following pageant owner Donald Trump’s remarks on Mexican immigrants – a decision that prompted the mogul to call her a “hypocrite.”

Paulina Vega, representing Columbia, dismissed Trump’s accusation and said she would continue doing the organization’s social work.

“The fact that I am not giving up my crown doesn’t mean that I am changing my stance about everything I said,” she said in her native country during an interview Monday with radio station La W. “It doesn’t make any sense that Donald Trump calls me a hypocrite because I’m not giving up my crown.”

Paulina Vega
Paulina Vega

In his June presidential campaign announcement, Trump said that some Mexican immigrants to the U.S. bring drugs and crime, and some are rapists.

On Sunday, a few days after Vega called his remarks “unjust and hurtful,” Trump tweeted: “Miss Universe, Paulina Vega, criticized me for telling the truth about illegal immigration, but then said she would keep the crown — Hypocrite.”

“As a Colombian and as Miss Universe, I want to show my support and validate the sentiments of the Latin community,” Vega had said on her Instagram account last week.

Vega, 22, won the 2014 Miss Universe pageant last January in Miami.

Pressure on her to quit has increased over the past several days, with Colombia retiring its bid to host the event and Mexico announcing that it won’t be sending any candidate to the competition.

Univision also cut its ties with Trump and all of his enterprises, and Colombian superstar Shakira, in reference to the tycoon’s comments, tweeted that “no one living in this century should stand behind so much ignorance.”

Vega, born in Barranquilla, stressed to the radio station that the Miss Universe pageant existed long before Trump acquired it and that “it will continue to exist if he stops being its owner someday.”

“I have kept doing my job as Miss Universe all these days. The work continues as always despite all this craziness going on,” she said.

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