By Katherine Tinsley
12:46am PDT, Apr 11, 2025
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"Just stop trying to glamorize the mission and put yourself in the middle of it as you cosplay
ICE agent, which you're not," Megyn Kelly said on a Wednesday, April 9, episode of "The Megyn Kelly Show."
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I think they diminish ICE, DHS, CPB, she's not an agent," Kelly continued about Kristi Noem, who is often seen with her hair and makeup done while witnessing deportations. "She is an administrative policy person appointed by Trump because she was very loyal to him."
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Megyn Kelly later said Kristi Noem "looks like I look right now, but she's out in the field with her gun."
The Fox News alum urged Noem to avoid pushing the "ICE Barbie" image and to "stop with the glam."
"No one wants you there," she continued. "First of all, nobody ever wants the extra lady who doesn't actually belong. They just don't."
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Megyn Kelly noted: "It's like she's looking for an opportunity to have that happen."
"I have had it up to here with all of this," Kelly said. "Why doesn't somebody save her from herself?"
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Despite her disappointment in Kristi Noem's antics, Megyn Kelly believes the Secretary of Homeland Security is a good fit for her role.
"She's doing a great job, her actual performance as DHS Secretary, in my view, anyway, has been amazing," Kelly admitted.
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Kristi Noem is often criticized on social media due to her decision to publicize ICE's raids.
"I'm so tired of Kristi Noem's whole cosplaying schtick. It's so cringe," one user wrote on X.
"Kristi Noem is basically a living, breathing Barbie doll collection: ICE Barbie, NYPD Barbie, Border Security Barbie, Hunter Barbie, Cowgirl Barbie…and the American taxpayer is footing the bill for her weird costume cosplay fetish," another added. "Get some therapy, lady."
