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Daily Mail
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Trump's 'Swamp Barbie' Brooke Rollins gets her hands dirty with jaw-dropping python capture
President Trump's cabinet members have looked to catch internet virality in the last few months, getting out of DC and into the field and in some cases, the marshlands. Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance have both worked out with members of the military, and Secretary Noem has ridden along on ICE raids. The latest addition to the administration seeking social media infamy is Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who shared a stunning photo Monday morning of her participation in a python hunt in the Florida Everglades. 'LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!' Rollins wrote quoting billionaire pop star Taylor Swift 's song of the same name, posted with a snake emoji. Rollins, 53, posted the set of pics from the Sunshine State from the hunt, which reportedly took place Sunday night. 'Last night I joined a python hunt in the Florida Everglades! Got hands-on with Florida's invasive species problem. Learned how to wrangle those slithery giants like a pro, joined a heart-pounding hunt under the swamp's moonlight, & saw up close how these pythons disrupt the ecosystem,' Rollins added in her post. 'Who's ready to join the hunt?, she also asked her followers, prompting them to engage with the post. X users obliged with comments and the response was decidedly mixed. One user who posts on X under the handle @starrygirl737 wrote, 'This sounds like an awesome experience!' Another user, @cFishFL, who appears to be a native Floridian wrote, 'Let us hunt year round for pythons in Everglades National Park!' Yet, another X user @galexy70 responded less favorably to the secretary, commenting 'Yay! More cosplay!' Rollins served as chief for domestic policy during Trump's first administration and was among the names mentioned in the running for chief of staff. Instead, she was confirmed overwhelmingly by the Senate to lead the Department of Agriculture in a 72-28 vote in February. Rollins is a conservative legal activist and public policy analyst who most recently served as president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-aligned think tank that developed policy and cultivated a network of personnel for the second Trump administration. By Monday afternoon, Rollins was back to posting more conventional political fare on her feed, announcing an allocation of $675 million in agricultural hurricane relief in Felda, Florida and touting the state's influential sugarcane industry.
The Independent
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
ICE Barbie' gets a challenger: AG Secretary Brooke Rollins takes to X to show off snake-hunting adventure
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has a challenger in Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who took to X to show off a snake-hunting adventure in true ICE Barbie fashion. Rollins shared photos from a python hunt in the Florida Everglades that she participated in on Sunday, with the caption, 'Look what you made me do!' an apparent reference to Taylor Swift 's Reputation album. 'Got hands-on with Florida's invasive species problem. Learned how to wrangle those slithery giants like a pro, joined a heart-pounding hunt under the swamp's moonlight, & saw up close how these pythons disrupt the Ecosystem,' Rollins wrote on X on Monday. In one of the photos, Rollins had a python draped around her neck as she held its head in one hand and its tail with the other. She donned a camo 'Make America Great Again' hat for the adventure. The photo-op is reminiscent of Noem's past social media posts. Noem obtained the nickname 'ICE Barbie' for posting photos of herself glammed up and decked out in tactical vests at immigration enforcement raids amid President Donald Trump 's mass deportation operation. The Homeland Security secretary has also had her fair share of hunting photo-ops. She posted photos with a dead bear in 2023 from a hunt in Saskatchewan, Canada, and a dead moose in 2024 from a hunt in Yukon, Canada, the Daily Beast reported, noting that neither animal is invasive to those regions. Noem has been criticized for her photo-ops, which some see as glamorizing a very serious job. In April, Noem shared a video of her wielding a gun incorrectly while she wore a tactical vest between two ICE officers. Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly responded to the video on her show: 'Just stop trying to glamorize the mission and put yourself in the middle of it as you cosplay ICE agent, which you're not.' Meghan McCain also slammed the video, saying on her YouTube show, 'I don't think that it is productive to have a full face of hair and makeup and hair you're doing things like that.' She added: 'If I were giving her some advice, I would be like, 'How about pulling our hair back in a baseball cap and not doing a photo-op?''
