Trump Lets Miss California Keep Her Crown

In a statement, Donald Trump said:

"We reviewed the pictures very carefully," he said, according to USA Today. "We are in the 21st century ... Carrie's a model, she's very successful. ... Some were beautiful, some were risqué ... We've determined the pictures taken were acceptable, fine, and in many cases they were very lovely pictures."

However, Trump seemed to completely ignore the other issue, which was Prejean participating in events without the permission of the Miss California Organization. These events were all anti-same-sex marriage events, and seemed to all pop up after her famous exchange with Perez Hilton at the Miss USA pageant. This led many to say she was being opportunistic, as most second-place finishers drop off the face of the earth.

In reference to this, Trump added:

"We had a little bit of a dilemma with Carrie, who is here, lovely, and gave a very, very honest answer when asked a very tough question (about gay marriage) at the recent pageant.

"It's the same answer the president of the U.S. gave, the same answer many people gave. It was probably a fair question because its asked of many people. If her beauty wasn't so great, nobody really would have cared. But that's not the way it worked out."