Easily offended leftists cried racism over a top Trump administration official’s Halloween post poking fun at a black rapper and social media influencer who was recently charged with food stamp fraud.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins marked the holiday with the Saturday X post featuring an image of “Shawty Dred,” who was indicted earlier this month for allegedly stealing more than $4 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits intended to help poor people buy food for their families.
The secretary’s post showed a mock Halloween costume of the rapper, whose real name is Mercedes Reshard New, flipping the bird while standing next to piles of money, displaying a burning bill that he had lit on fire.
“Some costumes come with a price tag. This one comes with a prison sentence. To anyone stealing from American taxpayers: The tricks are over. The treats are running out. Happy Halloween!” Rollins wrote.
Some costumes come with a price tag. This one comes with a prison sentence.
To anyone stealing from American taxpayers:
The tricks are over. The treats are running out.
Happy Halloween! 🎃 https://t.co/V8kCH8is6u
— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) October 31, 2026
The packaging for the gag costume reads “Flexes wealth and questionable fashion choices,” “steals MILLIONS from American Taxpayers,” “Goes to Jail.”
Being the humorless ghouls that they are, leftists exploded in knee-jerk outrage without an inkling of the context behind Rollins’ trick-or-treat message.
Just insane white supremacy, out in the open brazen racism, from Trump cabinet members.
But hey, let’s return to our regularly scheduled programming on Hasan Piker and the left.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 31, 2026
I had no idea Secretary of Racism was a cabinet position
— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway3d) October 31, 2026
If only they were as committed to actual governance as they are to being racist.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) November 1, 2026
Is there a single decent human in Trump’s cabinet?
If there were, he or she would denounce this racism.
But there isn’t.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 1, 2026
Not in anyway racist if you ignore the obvious racism
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@AdamKinzinger) November 1, 2026
But as the old saying goes: fools rush in. And Rollins added the missing context with a follow-up post linking to the DOJ press release announcing the indictment of the accused SNAP fraudster.
To the Left: Please do your homework.
👇🤦🏻♀️
https://t.co/RXJAUALYDp— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) November 1, 2026
“New allegedly stole over $4 million meant for poor families who need help putting food on the table,” U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg said. “My office is fully committed to rooting out abuses of the SNAP program and holding accountable criminal con artists and scammers who appallingly seek to profit by stealing taxpayer money meant to feed vulnerable Americans.”
“For years, New has flaunted his extravagant lifestyle on social media. Posts to his Instagram account, richlifeshawtydred, which has more than two million followers, depict him flying on private jets, posing with ultra-luxury Rolls-Royce and Maybach vehicles, handling massive stacks of cash, and denouncing other people as ‘broke motherf****s,'” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia said in a statement.
Leftists have just one sour note, and they keep playing it over and over again. All trick and no treat.
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