{"id":2537,"date":"2026-06-30T09:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:39:30","slug":"ice-barbies-successor-grabs-his-pacifier-as-maga-turns-on-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2537","title":{"rendered":"ICE Barbie\u2019s Successor Grabs His \u2018Pacifier\u2019 as MAGA Turns on Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Markwayne Mullin grabbed his pink stress ball for the second time in a week in a video where he desperately tried to placate his furious MAGA base.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2535\">Trump Goons\u2019 Secret Signal Chats Exposed After Humiliating Scandal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mullin, 48, took over the Department of Homeland Security in March after Trump fired Kristi Noem, vowing to keep his sprawling agency out of the headlines. That promise is not aging well. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The former MMA fighter and boss of his family plumbing business lit the fuse Sunday on CNN\u2019s <i>State of the Union<\/i>, when host Jake Tapper pressed him on whether the roughly 350,000 people holding Temporary Protected Status would be deported from the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mullin\u2019s answer\u2014that they could apply for permanent residence or a visa, or take a plane ticket home plus a stipend\u2014enraged the right, so he grabbed his comfort toy and hit the record button.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, which he posted on his official social media accounts, the DHS chief can be seen clasping the pink ball between the fingers of his right hand as he spelled out the choice facing TPS holders. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTemporary meant temporary,\u201d he says, before laying out two roads: self-deport for a $2,600 stipend and a plane ticket, or \u201cwe\u2019ll come find you.\u201d His pitch was, \u201cIf you think you\u2019re going to just wait out the Trump administration, it\u2019s not going to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The backdrop to all this is the Supreme Court, which on June 25 handed Trump a thumping victory. By a 6-3 vote along ideological lines in <i>Mullin v. Doe<\/i>, the justices cleared the way for the administration to end TPS for nationals of Haiti and Syria. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito ruled that the law shields the homeland security secretary\u2019s call from court review.<\/p>\n<p>The decision strips protections from around 330,000 people, the majority of them Haitian. Their work permits are set to lapse on July 1. Critics say they could be sent back to a country the State Department itself warns Americans not to visit, where more than 2,300 people have been killed in gang attacks this year.<\/p>\n<p>One of the lawyers who fought the case did not mince his words. \u201cMany, many people are going to die violent, needless deaths,\u201d attorney Geoffrey Pipoly told CNN. In a blistering dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the evidence of racial motive was \u201cplain to see in the president\u2019s own statements,\u201d as NPR reported.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2533\">Trump, 80, Dreams Up Tackiest White House Desecration Yet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A win this big could have bought Mullin some goodwill on his own side\u2014but his comments on it had the opposite effect. When he told Tapper that TPS holders had \u201ca couple choices\u201d\u2014including applying for permanent residence or a visa\u2014the base took it to mean an offer of amnesty. <\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Beast reported Monday, Fox News veteran Laura Ingraham fired first, telling her millions of followers that permanent status is \u201cnot what the base wants.\u201d Florida Republican Anthony Sabatini branded it an \u201cabsolute betrayal of the Republican base.\u201d Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino warned: \u201cDeliver the promise or lose the House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cue Mullin\u2019s desperate damage control. \u201cLet me be ABUNDANTLY clear,\u201d Mullin posted on X hours after the CNN sit-down. \u201cTemporary Protected Status is just that: TEMPORARY.\u201d He accused Democrats of trying to make TPS \u201ca <i>de facto<\/i> amnesty program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then came the video\u2014and the pink ball, an accessory Mullin has been spotted with before in another high-pressure moment. As the Beast reported last Friday, he was filmed squeezing the same toy during a fiery House Appropriations hearing a day earlier, in which he snapped at 83-year-old Democrat Rosa DeLauro: \u201cDon\u2019t be a hypocrite.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mullin has said he has carried the ball since middle school and once called it his \u201cpacifier,\u201d USA Today reported. DHS has described it as a \u201cfidget tool\u201d that gets his \u201cmotor\u201d going. <\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast asked the Department of Homeland Security why Mullin appeared unable to cope with stressful public appearances without his pacifier. They did not immediately reply.<\/p>\n<p>According to anger-management specialists cited by the Beast, stress balls work best when \u201cirritation is beginning, not when anger becomes intense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2532\">Trump Goon Accused of Vile Comments in Angry Phone Call<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mullin may need a bigger ball.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markwayne Mullin grabbed his pink stress ball for the second time in a week in a video where he desperately tried to placate his furious MAGA base. 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