Donald Trump Ousts Prejean

[FOTD]

OK. What you pimps gonna do to da Donald now?


http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=13&articleid=20090610_13_0_LOSANG501925

[cannon_fodder]

So did he wait until after the limelight was dimmed to fire her, or has she really failed to do Miss California required crap since then?

[Conan71]

I think she failed to bring required equipment with her for a meeting with the Donald.

[Hoss]

I think she failed to bring required equipment with her for a meeting with the Donald.

Niiiiiice!

[Townsend]

I think she failed to bring required equipment with her for a meeting with the Donald.

Mounds of good karma

[joiei]

I found this about the firing.   

Trump and other pageant leaders said Prejean was being sacked not because of the remarks but because she hadn't been holding up her end of the agreement she signed when she entered the pageant.

"This was a decision based solely on contract violations, including Ms. Prejean's unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization," the California pageant's executive director, Keith Lewis, said in a statement.

He had complained at a news conference last month that Prejean was skipping Miss California USA events while speaking out against gay marriage at unsanctioned appearances.

So it looks like she was too busy interviewing for her new job as Fox News Anchor to preform her contractural duties as Miss California. 

What Mr Trump has to say about Carrie now 

"Carrie is a beautiful young woman and I wish her well as she pursues her other interests," Trump said.

Prejean spokeswoman Melany Ethridge declined to comment, saying she hadn't been able to reach the former beauty queen since the announcement of her ouster.

Some further comments on the firing 

When Trump initially decided to keep Prejean on, Lewis' co-executive director, former Miss USA Shanna Moakler resigned in protest.

"My faith has been restored in the Miss Universe Organization and with Donald Trump," Moakler said in a statement after Wednesday's announcement. She didn't say whether she planned to return to the organization.

All of my quotes are from an AP piece by John Rogers.

[Conan71]

I thought the OP said "Trump Outs Prejean"...LOL

[dbacks fan]

I think she failed to bring required equipment with her for a meeting with the Donald.

Nice Monica's!!!!!!!   

[joiei]

Carrie has fired back.  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525807,00.html

According to her attorney and Fox News

The 22-year-old was not informed of her termination until it hit the press on Wednesday morning and was very shocked over the decision. According to insiders, Prejean had developed a strong relationship with Donald Trump and had been in regular contact with him since the press conference in May thus was surprised he gave the green light to have coveted crown taken away

Apparently other employers have had a bit of trouble with the Queen of California 

However Pop Tarts has learned that this isn't the first time Prejean has been given the flick. Her former agent, Francine Champagne at Visions Model Management Los Angeles, released Carrie from her contract just over a year ago under claims she was "problematic."

"It gets a little sticky and there are so many things that I would rather not discuss but there are certain specifications that we have to be a model and she was not keeping her commitment," Champagne told Tarts. "I just felt like she was a little nutty and I'd rather not represent someone with that mind frame and I just think she is a problem, and I did not feel that she was of the utmost professionalism and she did not follow through on her side of the bargain so therefore we decided to cut our losses and let her go."

Champagne also said that Prejean failed to act her age.

"She's definitely a handful, she needs a lot of attention, she is a little bit bossy, her mother gets involved whereas she's an adult, and she doesn't need her mom to be calling us. At this point in time, we're a professional agency that deals with professionals and if they are under 18, absolutely we deal with the parents, but once they're 18 or over, we should be dealing directly with talent, not with their parents," Champagne added. "She definitely had the potential to work well, she's a very beautiful girl, but her personality and her uptightness gets in the way and it's definitely a personality conflict with this business and her. She will not really bode well in this industry because she is too controlling and uptight and bossy. There are a lot of issues there with her and she's not really an easy person to get along with."

Carrie did not respond to a request for comment.

Other reactions to the news

Former Miss USA turned reality starlet turned Miss California Co-Executive Director Shanna Moakler promptly resigned from her position after Donald Trump announced that Carrie Prejean could stay on as Miss California, stating that she could no longer "move forward supporting and promoting the Miss Universe Organization" when she no longer believed in it or the contracts she signed.

However Moakler was quick to Twitter her change of heart on Wednesday following the news that Prejean was dethroned.

"My faith has been restored in MUO and with Donald Trump. I truly believed eventually what I intimately knew, would come to fruition," she twittered. "At 16 and 19 I signed these same contracts, as well as thousands of other woman, we ALL lived up to them, none of us had them amended. This is fair."

Reaction from the National Organization of Marriage

"Hollywood hates Carrie. First they abuse her, then they try to get her to recant, then they threw mud, and now they are doing what they wanted to do from day one: Get rid of Carrie," said Brian Brown, Executive Director for NOM. "This cover story about a contract dispute doesn't pass the smell test. Americans aren't fooled that easily. God knows, and we know, the truth about Carrie: She's a young woman of great beauty who chose truth over the glittering tiara that Hollywood offers. Of course they will try to punish her, but we know she will be fine in the end, because her values are in the right place."

Now we get to wait for the next segment of the Carrie Prejean reality show. 

[Townsend]

Those bastards...She's been Palinized with extreme prejudice.

Gosh, I hope she wins office somewhere.  She seems like the kind of person we need to run something or t'other.

It'd be super cool if her mom was helping out too.

[joiei]

Maybe she should run for Governer of California.

[Conan71]

Are her 15 minutes over yet?

[joiei]

Are her 15 minutes over yet?

The sooner the better. 

[Gaspar]

Those bastards...She's been Palinized with extreme prejudice.

Gosh, I hope she wins office somewhere.  She seems like the kind of person we need to run something or t'other.

It'd be super cool if her mom was helping out too.

. . . and mom.

Sorry that was bad and disrespectful, but damn funny.