Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem seems to have worn a gold Rolex watch value almost $60,000 throughout her go to to an infamous hellhole jail in El Salvador on Wednesday.
The flashy bling — which Noem noticed sporting as she filmed a video in entrance of a cell filled with inmates at the Terrorism Confinement Heart (CECOT) — was recognized as a gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona in a viral publish on X.
A brand new Cosmograph Daytona sells on-line for $59,500, in accordance with on-line listings.
She was sporting the identical watch in her assembly with Colombia’s international minister on Thursday.
The Division of Homeland Safety didn’t reply instantly to requests for remark.
“President Trump and I have a clear message to criminal illegal aliens: LEAVE NOW,” she wrote within the publish shared on X on Wednesday. “If you do not leave, we will hunt you down, arrest you, and you could end up in this El Salvadoran prison.”
Within the video, Noem, 53, had a warning for undocumented migrants.
“If you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you could face,” she stated. “This facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people.”
The jail lies some 47 miles southeast of El Salvador’s capital metropolis, San Salvador, and has been a flagship a part of the nation’s President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on violent drug cartels.
Noem’s selection of knickknack sparked controversy on-line with many questioning how she may afford such a bit of designer put on on a authorities wage.
“Don’t hear Elon Musk looking into Kristi Noem’s finances when she’s wearing a $60,000 watch on a $156,000 salary,” one X consumer wrote.
Noem’s most lately reported web value was $2.3 million in 2017, in accordance with the analysis group OpenSecrets.org which tracks cash in US politics.
Noem grew up on a ten,000-acre farm that was value greater than $2 million when her father died in 1994 in a farming accident, in accordance with public data.
“Who is running her account. You need to be fired. You’re making her look like an idiot,” one other X consumer who described themselves as a Republican wrote. “Wearing a $50k watch parading in front of gangbangers. Ridiculous.”
