It was U.S. border brokers themselves who got here up with the right nickname for his or her boss, Kristi Noem, the head of the Department of Homeland Security who is now the first member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet to be fired. They referred to as her “ICE Barbie” and the identify has turn into ubiquitous.
A few years in the past, Noem, the South Dakota cowgirl, was driving excessive. She had been a member of Congress. She was governor of her residence state. She was talked about critically as a attainable working mate for Trump in his third run for the White Home. She even had a newly revealed autobiography.
That ebook is the place her troubles started, because of a passage during which Noem described capturing a household canine as a result of the unruly mutt was “untrainable” and “lower than nugatory.” Now, the president has come to the identical conclusion about her. As a comfort, Trump has shuffled Noem off to a made-up job in a powerless nook of his administration. Politically talking, she is perhaps happier if Trump had shot her like a canine.
Now, there’s no extra enjoyable for ICE Barbie. No extra cosplaying in cowboy hats and tactical gear. No extra thousands and thousands of taxpayer {dollars} to spend on TV adverts that includes her considerable hair and her face in full make-up. No extra fancy jets with bedrooms frightening tabloid rumors about her relationship with “senior adviser” Corey Lewandowski. No probability she’s going to ever fulfill her aspiration to be elected president (though, given the weird state of American politics, am I talking too quickly?).
To let you know the reality, it’s a tragic day for us political cartoonists who had, in ICE Barbie, a wonderful goal for our satire. Fortunately for us (however not the nation), Trump has different bizarre dolls in his cupboard of horrors.
Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi might not put on as many colourful outfits as Noem, however she’s accumulating simply as many scandals as she turns the Justice Division into Trump’s non-public regulation agency and dissembles about her dealing with of the Epstein Information. Let’s name her “Cowl-Up Barbie.”
Bondi is scheduled for a return look on Capitol Hill, not only for yet another spherical of buying and selling insults with lawmakers, however to be deposed by legal professionals who really know what they’re doing (in contrast to so lots of the incompetent attorneys on the prime of Trump’s Justice Division). If that doesn’t go nicely, Bondi may very well be the following cupboard member to all of the sudden discover herself unemployed.
That might nonetheless go away us the scariest doll within the Trump toy store, the president’s closest adviser, Steven Miller. Miller is the architect of all the pieces from the draconian crackdown on immigrants to the belligerent risk to seize Greenland; a minor league Machiavelli, a repellant Rasputin, an anti-democratic ideologue who has made it clear he believes there’s however one rule for the president to observe: would possibly makes proper.
Miller is the administration’s most worthy goal for political cartoonists, not less than these of us who assume democracy and the rule of regulation are price preserving. So, to observe the Barbie trope, let’s simply name him “Mein Kampf Ken.”
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