Kristi Noem is mocked over latest 'border costume' as DHS Secretary doubles down on Mexico and Canada tariffs

Social media ripped into Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for 'cosplaying' successful a cowboy chapeau during an interrogation from the confederate borderline connected Sunday.

Noem, who resigned arsenic Governor of South Dakota erstwhile she was confirmed past month, is simply a husbandman and a rancher. She has often been seen donning her cowboy chapeau and boots.

But societal media users were swift to teardrop into Donald Trump's caller DHS caput arsenic she doubled-down connected his tariffs committedness and repeated the president's thought to usage Guantanamo Bay to clasp amerciable migrant deportees during an interrogation with NBC News.

'What is this cosplay she has goin on? Kristi Noem hasn't met a chapeau she won't appropriate,' connected idiosyncratic wrote connected X.

Another shared the sentiment that Noem was conscionable playing formal up, penning connected X: 'Kristi noem and her cosplay outfits are wholly ridiculous. The hair, Botox, fake eyelashes and cowboy chapeau don't marque her effective.'

'This full medication is simply a fake reality tv show,' they added.

Noem's hardline migration stances and aboriginal actions, arsenic good arsenic her glammed-up look portion conducting these raids, has made a splash connected societal media – adjacent earning her the nicknames 'ICE Barbie' and 'American Badass.' 

Trump started a commercialized warfare astatine the extremity of his 2nd week backmost successful bureau by imposing tariffs connected China, Canada and Mexico successful effect to the fentanyl crisis. The medication claims these countries are liable for creating and exacerbating accumulation and trafficking of the deadly cause into the U.S.

Noem, 53, said that the 3 nations volition 'feel the pain' of tariffs arsenic she doubled-down connected Trump's imposition of economical sanctions, during an interrogation with NBC's Meet the Press connected Sunday.

Trump announced connected Saturday helium is utilizing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to enactment a 25 percent tariff connected imports from Mexico and Canada and a 10 percent further taxation connected Chinese imports.

He said the actions are 'because of the large menace of amerciable aliens and deadly drugs sidesplitting our Citizens, including fentanyl.'

'We request to support Americans, and it is my work arsenic President to guarantee the information of all,' helium posted to Truth Social. 'I made a committedness connected my Campaign to halt the flood of amerciable aliens and drugs from pouring crossed our Borders, and Americans overwhelmingly voted successful favour of it.'

Noem, arsenic caput of DHS, is helping with the information of the federation and specifically successful addressing the confederate borderline crisis.

She is presently astatine the borderline with enforcement forces to summation much operational consciousness of the ongoing crisis.

Noem was raised with her siblings connected a household ranch and workplace successful agrarian Hamlin County, South Dakota.

Amid rumors she was being considered arsenic a moving mate for Trump successful 2024, Noem released her 2nd memoir No Going Back, an excerpt of which ignited nationwide contention erstwhile she elaborate shooting and sidesplitting a household workplace canine she claims was convulsive and untrainable.

During an interrogation with Meet the Press big Kristen Welker, Noem joined virtually from the confederate borderline and donned a large, achromatic cowboy hat.

She did not regularisation retired the imaginable that the U.S. could usage Guantanamo Bay successful Cuba to clasp children who were brought into oregon crossed themselves illegally into the U.S.

'Could women, children, and families beryllium held there, astatine Guantanamo?' Welker asked.

'You know, if you look astatine what we are doing contiguous of targeting the worst of the worst, we've been precise wide connected that. The precedence of this president is to spell aft transgression aliens that are making our streets much dangerous,' she insisted.

Asked to regularisation retired utilizing the Naval Base situation wherever terrorists were held and faced enhanced interrogation to location children migrants, Noem said: 'We're going to usage the facilities that we have.'

'I deliberation you're good alert we person different detention facilities, different places successful the country,' the erstwhile politician added. 'So we volition utilize what we person according to what's due for the individuals that we person gone retired connected these targeted operations with section instrumentality enforcement and task forces.'

The imaginable usage of alleged Gitmo for migrants comes arsenic the caller medication grapples with wherever to location and clasp amerciable and undocumented migrants arsenic it puts into spot wide deportation plans.