Carrie Prejean fails to understand religion, geopolitics, and virtually everything else
In 2009, the Miss USA runner-up was about to be stripped of her Miss California title. Carrie Prejean violated pageant rules by participating in a sex tape. Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump, an avid golfer, gifted Prejean a mulligan.
Miss Prejean wasted her second chance, skipping mandatory pageant activities. She was terminated for cause, losing her crown.
After public humiliation, Prejean married NFL quarterback Kyle Boller, started a family, and wisely went relatively quiet. Despite being bullied more than anyone outside of Monica Lewinsky, Prejean remained dignified. In person, she was warm and gracious. My own experiences can attest to her kind, caring nature. Her father Wil was an exceptionally good man, a stable rock. His daughter could have achieved her happy ending.
Sadly, she reentered the spotlight and squandered an opportunity to do good. President Trump named her to his 2026 commission on antisemitism. She showed up to a hearing wearing a “Palestine” flag pin. She grilled a witness about a mythical Gaza “genocide” that has been thoroughly debunked. Trump, who’s eldest daughter Ivanka is Orthodox Jewish, had heard enough. Despite a personal distaste for firing people, Trump added Prejean to the exclusive Omarosa Manigault club of people he fired at least twice.
This time, Prejean did not go gently into that good night. The same social media that made her a bullying victim helped her become a bully. She unleashed online tirades against Israel and Zionists.
She is out of mulligans. Understanding why a 38-year-old spouts off on topics she knows nothing about is pointless. What matters is swiftly rebutting her combination of idiocy, ignorance and ugliness.
Prejean does not understand Judaism or Zionism. Ant-Zionism is 100% Jew-hatred, to the consternation of those using anti-Zionism as a convenient fig leaf. Zionism is the right of Jews to live in the Jewish state of Israel. Zionism is the heart of Jewish existence. Anti-Zionism defines a hostility toward Jewish existence.
Prejean does not understand the Middle East or Arab-Israeli conflict. “Palestine” is fictional. “Palestinians” are displaced Egyptian and Jordanian Arabs. These Arabs have no unique language, culture, currency, history or archeology. Before 1964, they never existed. “Gaza” and the “West Bank” are part of Judea and Samaria. Historical evidence shows Jews lived there over 3,000 years ago. Jews currently in Israel are direct descendants of original Jewish lineage.
Prejean’s attacks on Jews directly stems from her April, 2026 conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism. Sadly, Prejean fails to even understand her own newfound faith. Just as Islamists pervert Islam, her virulent fringe strain of Catholicism perverts Catholicism. Pope John Paul II epitomized doctrinaire Catholicism. He officially condemned antisemitism as a sin, calling Jews “elder brothers.” Pope Leo XIV stated that the Church “does not tolerate anti-Semitism and fights against it, on the basis of the Gospel itself.”
Pontiffs aside, nobody is more Catholic than Catholic League President Bill Donohue. Mr. Donohue has fought anti-Catholic bigotry for over 30 years. Anyone unfairly attacking Catholics faces his swift wrath. His comments regarding Prejean were unequivocal. “She does not run a Catholic organization, has no Catholic credentials as an author or instructor, and indeed represents no one but herself. For her to say, without qualification, that ‘Catholics do not embrace Zionism,’ is presumptuous and arrogant.”
True Catholics understand Nostra Aetete (In our time). This seminal 1965 declaration from the Second Vatican Council transformed the Catholic Church’s relationship with non-Christian religions, emphasizing unity, love, and mutual respect.
If Prejean’s Catholicism is sincere, she has two stark choices. She can spiral down into rage, hate and madness. Conversely, she can stop wasting chances her former boss gave her and truly change. She should start by sitting down with Ivanka and just listening. Ivanka is bright and poised. She can educate Prejean about Judaism, Zionism, history, geopolitics, and even help Prejean become a better Philosemitic Catholic.