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Eugene

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Sun Apr 20, 2025, 08:58 AM Apr 20

Even White House Officials Are Laughing at ICE Barbie's Cosplays [View all]

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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