Children’s YouTube star "Ms.Rachel" has waded into a political controversy after pushing back against President Donald Trump for sharing a viral video showing several children wearing hijabs at a Minnesota kindergarten graduation."Ms.
Rachel," whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, took to Instagram to express support for the kindergarteners wearing hijabs."I saw some of you wore a hijab to your graduation," she wrote on Tuesday."I am glad you wore something meaningful and special to you and your family.
I think hijabs are beautiful.Different kids wear different things that are a part of their cultures and religions, such as hijabs, kippahs, or necklaces with a cross.
Some kids don’t wear anything that is from their religion or are not religious."The post also appeared to take an indirect jab at the president, without mentioning him by name, writing, "No one’s hurtful words can take away our worth and our value! Just because someone says something does not mean it’s true!"CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT OWNER HITS PARENTS OF BRATTY KIDS WITH HEFTY FINES FOR TRASHING HIS BUSINESSMs.Rachel is pictured during an appearance on the "TODAY" show on Tuesday, Sept.
24, 2024.(Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)Accurso, who rose to fame creating educational videos for children, has more than 20.5 million subscribers on YouTube, along with nearly 9.3 million TikTok followers and over 5 million on Instagram.Her reaction came after Trump reshared a graduation video on Truth Social.
The clip was previously shared by the X account End Wokeness, which claimed it showed a school in St.Paul, Minnesota, and captioned it, "Every girl is in a hijab … in kindergarten."Trump did not add a caption of his own when he reposted the clip, which shows several young children in head coverings wearing blue graduation regalia reading "kindergarten graduation." Over a dozen of the children featured are wearing hijabs or head coverings, which are traditionally worn by Muslim women.MS RA...