Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado returned to the U.S. cultural zeitgeist in a major and controversial manner in 2016. On September 23, 2016, during the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton named dropped Machado. Recounting how her adversary Donald Trump subjected Machado to workouts in front of a press corp., called her names such as “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” during her beauty queen reign. Trump of course denied making the statements, yet nonsensically doubled down on the matter subsequent to the debate, characterizing Machado as impossible to deal with and accusing Clinton of failing to investigate Machado’s past. Like it or not, Machado was now caught in the cross hairs of presidential politics.