Social media roasts Noem over unique style choices

"Kristi Noem seems to think that serving as a Cabinet secretary is akin to attending a Halloween party," one user on social media said in response to Noem appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" with a cowboy hat. "These costumes are just getting ridiculous."

But some users on social media believed her choice of attire on television Sunday was questionable.

"Cosplay Kristi is at it again on Meet the Press," quipped journalist Aaron Rupar in response to Noem's appearance on the program.

"Fascists are always so obsessed with aesthetics [sic] I don't get it," wrote one user.

"So cringe," wrote another.

"We are not a serious country," one user on X added.

"Across America people - in places like Kristi's ranch - those hats aren't costumes as you know them. People actually wear them every day for work and whenever they are outdoors," one X user said.

"She's from South Dakota, owns farmland and runs a ranch," added another. "Stands to reason she would have a cowboy hat."

"She posts pics on her farm all the time. She can't wear one of her hats? Y'all are so weird," added another user.

Noem's office did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.

Reached for comment, DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital Noem spent her first week on the job with "border agents at the southern and northern borders as well as on an ICE enforcement operation targeting high target criminals."

"Secretary Noem is proud to wear the uniform of the DHS agents who protect Americans and our homeland," Mclaughlin added. "I've yet to hear screeching when a man puts on a hat or protective vest. Critics are embarrassing themselves revealing that they are more concerned about what the Secretary of DHS wears than they are that Mayorkas allowed 15 million immigrants into this country in just four years."