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Eugene

(67,313 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:06 PM Sep 2025

ICE Barbie Furiously Ordered Trump's Border Czar to Stop Going on TV

Source: The Daily Beast

ICE Barbie Furiously Ordered Trump’s Border Czar to Stop Going on TV

Will Neal
Mon, September 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM EDT
2 min read

Two of Donald Trump’s most vicious anti-immigration bulldogs have reportedly been at each other’s throats to such an extent that the president himself wondered if he’d need to step in.

In a sweeping exposé on Kristi Noem’s rise from humble Farm Service Agency employee South Dakota governor to homeland security secretary, New York magazine reports that Noem’s bitter spat with border czar Tom Homan ultimately boils down to her seemingly insatiable appetite for publicity.

Since assuming her post earlier this year, Noem has indeed embarked on an intense campaign for ever greater public exposure, earning the nickname “ICE Barbie” for cosplaying during TV appearances as an immigration enforcement agent, a firefighter, a pilot, and various other DHS employees.

It was her crusade for more airtime, a former DHS official told the magazine, that apparently put her on a collision course with Homan, himself a huge fan of media appearances.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-barbie-furiously-ordered-trump-143250469.html

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ICE Barbie Furiously Ordered Trump's Border Czar to Stop Going on TV (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2025 OP
Stop going on tv? markodochartaigh Sep 2025 #1
"(Noem's) seemingly insatiable appetite for publicity." Grins Sep 2025 #2
Homan ham face ? kimbutgar Sep 2025 #3
"I invested a lot of time and money in this plastic surgery..." WestMichRad Sep 2025 #4
Ehhh... you order the 2nd least expensive surgeon. mr715 Sep 2025 #7
... WestMichRad Sep 2025 #9
. dalton99a Sep 2025 #5
And yet, she already's on a lot of ads showing how little empathy she has sakabatou Sep 2025 #6
They better not split up. It takes the two of those cruel bullies to, combined, allegorical oracle Sep 2025 #8

markodochartaigh

(5,545 posts)
1. Stop going on tv?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:18 PM
Sep 2025

If he can't do his commercials how will he keep getting his ad money bribes.

WestMichRad

(3,392 posts)
4. "I invested a lot of time and money in this plastic surgery..."
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:03 PM
Sep 2025

“… so I get first dibs on camera time!”

(Insert emoticon of child having tantrum.)

allegorical oracle

(6,592 posts)
8. They better not split up. It takes the two of those cruel bullies to, combined,
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:23 PM
Sep 2025

have an IQ of 70.

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