Kristi Noem trolled brutally for asking fans to choose her official portrait while Texas kids drown in flood
This outraged social media users as they accused her of horsing around on Instagram amid a disaster in Texas.
Kristi Noem slammed online
Known as 'ICE Barbie' for her role in the federal government, Kristi Noem was slammed online after asking her Instagram followers for help choosing her official portrait while Texas children drowned in intense and deadly flash flooding over the weekend. 'Which one do you like for the official Governor's portrait to hang in the South Dakota State Capitol?' she posted on Instagram Monday. 'Thank you David Uhl!'
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Each portrait showed different variations of Noem on horseback, wearing a Western-style get-up complete with a cowboy hat.The first image features Noem, dressed in a collared white shirt and matching white pants, looking pensively to the side as she poses on horseback.
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The second shows Noem dramatically riding in full stride in white fringe pants and a gray zip hoodie with a furry hood, her silver earring blown by the breeze. The third captures Noem with her hands crossed atop her dark jeans as her gaze focuses on something off to the side. Each image captures her long locks flowing under a beige cowboy hat.
Many on social media took this as an opportunity to criticize the head of the Department of Homeland Security for posting on Instagram amid the deadly floods that have devastated parts of Texas. Noem visited the disaster-struck state over the weekend. The DHS oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which helps in disaster response.
At the time she posted the photo, dozens had died as a result of the floods; that number has since climbed to more than 100 people.
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"I'm not kidding; amid deporting children and doing nothing to help Texas, Kristi Noem asked her Instagram followers to help choose her Official South Dakota Governor's Portrait," an X user wrote, attaching a picture of the choices Noem presented to her followers.
'70+ dead, many of [them] children…and others still missing AND THIS IS WHAT THE PUPPY SHOOTER IS POSTING RIGHT NOW?' one user asked.
Yet another suggested: 'Maybe the one with the flood, and you doing nothing about it.' Noem has been criticized for 'glamorizing' a very serious job.
"The options all look like covers of romance novels with a heroine named Moron Marlboro," the X user continued. But the comments on the Instagram post itself were much more scathing.
"Maybe the one with the flood, and you doing nothing about it, and maybe a kid floating by?" one angry Instagram user penned. They were referring to the flash flooding in Texas that killed over 100 individuals, including dozens of children, including several at a summer camp that was destroyed by the immense amounts of water that raced through the region over the Fourth of July weekend.
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Texas flooding
Massive flash floods hit Texas over the July 4 weekend in which dozens of young girls from Camp Mystic are still reportedly unaccounted for, and dozens have been confirmed dead. At least 10 inches of rain fell in some areas of the Southwestern state, which is more than those regions typically get over the course of an entire summer.
Harrowing videos from inside the camp showed the children singing campfire and worship songs as they rode emergency vehicles and buses during a hasty, last-minute evacuation. Many can be heard crying.
During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon, Noem spoke to reporters and briefed the president on her response to the crisis, detailing her visit to Texas. She spoke about the families she met, but said her only course of action was to hug those affected by the tragedy and provide a shoulder for them to cry on as they mourned the loss of their daughters and daughters' friends.
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She also faced criticism for stating that the federal government doesn't manage or work to mitigate the disasters, that it's entirely up to the states to handle them. "We, as a federal government, don't manage these disasters — the state does," she could be heard saying in the livestream of the event.
"We come in and support them," she added. "And that's exactly what we did here in this situation — FEMA went to an enhanced level, immediately, but as soon as you signed the major disaster declaration, we were able to get them resources and dollars right away, just like you envisioned through state block grants to help them with cleanup." She was addressing President Donald Trump as she spoke.
"FEMA has been deployed, and we're cutting through the paperwork of the old FEMA, streamlining it much like your vision of how FEMA should operate, and it's been a much better response to help these families get through this terrible situation," she said.
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But the response, many said, was too little, too late, and others slammed the Trump administration's gutting of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which many say is underfunded and understaffed, which made it difficult to step in and assist with the Texas flooding over the weekend. Trump nevertheless claimed that the death rate in Texas would be much higher had he and the federal government not "stepped in."
"This is ridiculous," one wrote. Another slammed her border policies and called out her "vanity." They wrote, "México president sent aid and troops to help the red state of Texas. While you are asking for opinions to satiate your vanity."
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