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Firing Kristi Noem: So long to a secretary who made a mockery of our government

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07.03.2026

President Trump had good cause yesterday to fire Kristi Noem from being homeland security secretary, giving her the ax via social media post, with Trump announcing that she was being replaced by Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, apparently without bothering to inform her first.

That followed her disastrous congressional testimony just the prior day, in which Noem had gotten rare bipartisan flak for her mismanagement, including misspending hundreds of millions of dollars, allowing her agents to repeatedly violate laws and the constitution and allegedly having an affair with top DHS official Corey Lewandowski. She is apparently now special envoy for some Monroe Doctrine fakery that Trump is cooking up.

It is surely a terrible loss for her to no longer have access to the video crews she loved having........

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