Right here’s simply hoping she doesn’t have a home made Cruella de Vil costume.
Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem, who has earned nicknames like “Cosplay Kristi” and “ICE Barbie,” appeared earlier than the Home Homeland Safety Committee Wednesday and was known as out by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) about staging numerous photographs of herself at ICE raids and different DHS missions in numerous, way-too-on-the-nose outfits.
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“Whatever got you here, Secretary Noem, I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify about why President Trump is seeking more taxpayer dollars, and what you plan to do with that money if you get it,” Thompson mentioned.
The congressman’s deliciously petty confrontation tickled many on X, previously Twitter.
“ZING!” one person wrote.
“BA DA BING! 🎯🎯🎯🎯” wrote one other.
“More of this, please,” echoed a 3rd person.
Since changing into DHS secretary, Noem has determined to combine her love of theatrics with terror by posting threatening photographs and movies of herself wearing numerous costumes you’d possible see a bit of boy put on on Halloween.
In January, Noem posted a video of herself to social media in her finest police officer getup, full with a bulletproof vest, to share a message of unity with the American individuals.
“If you are in New York City this morning, we are getting the dirtbags off these streets,” she says within the video.
In February, Noem busted out her favourite cowboy outfit and sat upon a horse to tell the nation that she was in Del Rio, Texas, to take a look at what assets border brokers wanted to cease “criminal actors that come across this border.”
Previously she’s additionally worn firefighter, Coast Guard and Border Patrol uniforms.
“She is not a customs and border control agent, but she had them make her a uniform, I guess?” MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joked throughout a phase making enjoyable of Noem’s numerous outfits in April.
And though mocking Noem’s ~lewks~ is perhaps imply, it’s nothing compared to her overtly flouting a Supreme Courtroom order or serving to to facilitate a mass deportation of migrants with out due course of — which she has a dressing up for as effectively.
