'Cowboy lady' Kristi Noem ridiculed on MSNBC for 'performative dress-up' NBC interview

On Sunday morning all three co-hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend" expressed a combination of befuddlement and amusement after watching a clip of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem inexplicably wearing a cowboy hat for an earlier NBC interview.

After sharing the clip of the former South Dakota governor speaking with host Kristin Welker, less was said about what she told the NBC host and more was said about how she repeatedly keeps costuming herself for TV interviews.

Co-host Symone Sanders Townsend jumped in right after Michael Steele smirked and quipped, "Cowboy lady."

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"The secretary of Homeland Security continues to don these outfits to, like, dress up and make it look like we're being tough on the border," she began. "It's the bomber jackets and the hats. For me, it's that now she's down at the border, I guess this week, so now it's the cowboy hats and the tan."

"This is me when I go to the ski resort, I got all the outfits, but I'm not getting on the slopes. Just because we put it on does not mean that you are doing the work," she joked before later adding, "It's just not. This is performative art. And, you know, and it's bad, the hat wasn't even good."

Turning serious, co-host Steele added, "This performative dress-up, you know, fun and games with Kristi Noem has real consequences for people. and that's the thing that we need to be made aware of, that this performative act has real consequences, as we've already begun to see at the FBI in raids in New York, etcetera."

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