Ms. Nevada has been stripped of her crown. She says it's because she supports Trump.

[CatWoman]

Katie Williams no longer wears the crown of Ms. Nevada.

The 29-year-old Las Vegas woman claims she's a victim of censorship, and being unfairly targeted over her support for President Donald Trump.

But pageant organizers insist it's Williams' failure to separate political activism from her pageant persona — not her specific support of Trump — that cost her the Silver State sash.

So when more than three dozen women vie for the crown of Ms. America at The Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, this Saturday, Williams will not be on board. Nevada will not be represented at the pageant, which has run since 1997.

"I just don't understand how you can censor someone with conservative values when I'm not even really saying anything that's bad," Williams said in a video Facebook posting over the weekend, announcing that she had been booted from the competition.

Williams, who won the Ms. Nevada 2019 crown this past April, declined further comment to NBC News on Wednesday, standing by her online comments. She's a fitness instructor and was deployed with the Army National Guard to Afghanistan in 2008-09, according to her spokesman.

A statement on Ms. America's website claimed that Williams was told to keep her political commentary limited to personal social media pages. And if she wanted to talk politics, she should create a separate one for pageant-related postings.

"Katie Williams is distorting the facts," according to a Ms. America statement. "ALL the pageant asked of Ms. Williams, in writing, is to keep separate social media accounts."

The pageant added: "She has her Personal Facebook page to voice her political views. However, the Ms. Nevada Facebook Page should be devoid of political content."

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[CatWoman]

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Williams insists that's exactly what she did, claiming she followed pageant instructions to create a second Facebook account for Ms. Nevada material that was apart from her personal one.

A pageant official "continued to screen shot my page, my personal page, and email me about how she was disappointed and she didn't agree with it and that I needed to speak with her on the phone," Williams said in her Facebook posting.

But Ms. America CEO Susan Jeske said while Williams did create a second pageant-related Facebook account, the contestant's Trump-filled page still had plenty of images and mentions of the Ms. America competition

"If you're putting pageant stuff on your personal page, then that's a pageant page. You're combing it," Jeske, winner of the first Ms. America pageant in 1997, told NBC News on Wednesday.

On Williams personal Facebook page, the now-former contestant wears a "Trump 2020" baseball cap in her profile picture. Williams' top post on Wednesday afternoon was a picture of her smiling while wearing the Ms. Nevada sash and crown.

[Amimnoch]

2. You know what? I don't even care if that is the reason.

Good enough for me. No fucks to give on anything bad that happens to them. The day they start caring about the people they are constantly causing harm to.. I’ll reevaluate.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Rump is a traitor, any support of him is treason.

[Snake Plissken]

4. They get multiple warnings when they violate the terms of their contract before they are fired

This is just the latest one who knew she had no chance of winning so the only way to get her name out there was to get herself fired and play the victim, hoping Trump will use her as a prop to extend her 15 minutes of cable news fame.

[GusBob]

6. Trump will grab her for sure

She will love every minute

[Snake Plissken]

8. That is what she is counting on, to cash in on his cult of rubes as the latest beauty queen victim

grifters know a good opportunity to fleece some rubes when the see one, and there never has been a more concentrated group of rubes in history than Trump's cult.

[struggle4progress]

5. She might still have a shot at Miss Wall in "Pyramus and Thisbe"

And maybe the Miss Concentration Camp Guard contest would love to hear her sing about babies in cages

[UTUSN]

7. Well, *that's* a good reason for losing a title!1

[doc03]

9. Sounds like a good reason to me

[lpbk2713]

10. You are at fault.

You should have known and adhered to the rules going in.
Being a Trumpster does not put you above the rules and regs.

[She_Totally_Gets_It]

11. I never understood this: Why do people think you have to be Republican if you're conservative?

There are plenty of conservative, "pro-choice" Democrats that exist and have always existed.

Trump is anything BUT conservative, anyway.

[Cha]

12. So she's a whiny victim like trump.

[Buzz cook]

13. Just waiting for the sex tape

That does seem to be the MO for conservative beauty queens.

[UniteFightBack]

14. Clearly, comprehension is not her strong suit. nt