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Eugene

(64,557 posts)
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 08:58 AM Sunday

Even White House Officials Are Laughing at ICE Barbie's Cosplays

Even White House Officials Are Laughing at ICE Barbie’s Cosplays (The Daily Beast)

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has earned a reputation as a coquette for unusual publicity stunts that involve dolling up and posing in front of immigration detainees. Now, even the White House can’t help laughing.

“ICE Barbie,” as she’s come to be known, has become a source of amusement inside the White House, where officials have been “mockingly” circulating clips of her TV appearances, according to the Wall Street Journal.

It’s easy to see why.

Dolled up in full glam, Noem has rotated through an array of outfits—military fatigues, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jackets, and cowboy hats for horseback rides with ICE agents—for stunts that include posing for pics in the cockpit of a Coast Guard plane and for ATV rides in the Arizona desert. She even filmed a propaganda video at a mega prison in El Salvador wearing a $60,000 watch and pointed a gun at an ICE officer’s head in a clip posted to X, prompting backlash and concern.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/even-white-house-officials-laughing-161505027.html
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Tribetime

(6,510 posts)
1. I would like her chained up to a tree with a dog collar around her neck
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 09:15 AM
Sunday

While a Bull Mastiff avenges the loss of the puppy she slaughtered

Baitball Blogger

(49,863 posts)
4. Mocking them is the only weapon we have that might actually penetrate
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 10:17 AM
Sunday

through their layers of ignorance. Hit them where it hurts: Their vanity.

MorbidButterflyTat

(2,855 posts)
11. "WE" aren't mocking her
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 12:26 PM
Sunday

According to the OP, it's her own BFF "WH officials" :

“'ICE Barbie,' as she’s come to be known, has become a source of amusement inside the White House, where officials have been “mockingly” circulating clips of her TV appearances..."

Mocking them does absolutely nothing.

Silent Type

(9,046 posts)
5. Months ago I wondered if we would have won had VP Harris dressed in fatigues -- with a pistol strapped to her side and
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 11:00 AM
Sunday

a knife in her teeth -- as she crawled into a tunnel at the border to check for immigrants.

Midnight Writer

(23,748 posts)
6. I, for one, am looking forward to watching the Noem/Lewandowski reality TV show,
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 11:02 AM
Sunday

"Cruella and Jasper and Their Animal Friends".

MagickMuffin

(17,578 posts)
8. Ice Ice Barbie
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 12:02 PM
Sunday


Hey Where did vanilla ice go?

He could make a fortune with an updated version Ice Ice Barbie!


MorbidButterflyTat

(2,855 posts)
9. "...a coquette for unusual publicity stunts..."
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 12:18 PM
Sunday

Yeah, really. It's a laugh riot for "WH officials".

Ha, ha.

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