Mickey McElya
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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So after Machado won the Miss Universe pageant, she put on some weight, was not the size as she was representing Miss Universe, was not the size she had been during competition, which raises a lot of issues around weight.
trying to prepare one's body for a competition and then what happens when you're not spending all of your time preparing and the health issues that are connected there.
And
It became a central focus for Donald Trump and his organization.
They wanted her to lose weight.
They bought exercise equipment and forced her to use it in front of photographers.
He was on her constantly and then started talking about how she was – and this came up in 2016 – that she was a problem.
She was resistant.
So it's interesting how in that story— And you're saying it pretty respectfully, but he did not say it that respectfully.
I mean, he used—
I mean, like really terrible language to describe her.
He used terrible language to describe her.
He also used language that was charactering her as a Latina, that suggested that domestic work was what she should be doing.
So fundamentally sort of both suggesting that domestic work is minimal work
not valuable and somehow ugly, but also suggesting that she wasn't fit to be Miss Universe and that she wasn't a fit representative.
And his treatment was humiliating.
It was a public systematic humiliation and one that he, of course, was never apologetic for and doubled down on in 2016 when it came up.
Let's take a short break.
Our guest today is historian Mickey McElyea.
We'll be right back after a short break.
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