Pilot Barbie Kristi Noem Gives Trump's Favorite Photographer a Tour of Gitmo [View all]

Source: The Daily Beast

Pilot Barbie Kristi Noem Gives Trump’s Favorite Photographer a Tour of Gitmo

The Trump administration plans to open tent camps in preparation for moving up to 30,000 deportees to the controversial detention camp.

Sean Craig
Published Feb. 9 2025 3:06PM EST

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gave the photojournalist President Donald Trump praised as the “no. 1 photographer in the world” a close-up of the administration’s plans for the controversial Guantánamo Bay detention camp.

The New York Times' Doug Mills was invited to photograph Noem and Guantánamo Bay personnel on Friday at the U.S. Navy compound as men described as Venezuelan gang members were brought to the facility.

His glossy images highlighted Mills' signature talent for capturing intimate moments within administrations, including one shot of a glammed-up Noem, with curled hair and a Department of Homeland Security baseball cap, seated in the cockpit of a deportation flight.

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The Times reported that U.S Armed Forces and homeland security staff are in the process of erecting a tent city to house potentially thousands of migrants at the base, which also hosts a military prison.

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