DHS Secretary Kristi Noem out, Trump says

[ruet]

Source: Axios

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is leaving the department and being replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Trump said Thursday.

Why it matters: Noem's exit leaves Trump's mass deportation agenda without its most prominent face amid a public backlash.

Catch up quick: Noem drew bipartisan fury after accusing Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti and mother Renee Nicole Good of being domestic terrorists after both were shot and killed by federal agents in January.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/05/kristi-noem-trump-ice-dhs

[NCDem47]

1. Oh geez

More cowboy cosplay.

[ruet]

3. Markwayne Mullin?

Won't he lose (be forced to give up) his senate seat?

EDIT: These are the dumbest MFers ever.

[Walleye]

7. Yes, I was just wondering when his term is up

[ruet]

8. Very soon, apparently. -NT-

[Puppyjive]

17. Oklahomans only vote for repubs.

It doesn't matter how bad it gets, they will vote repub every time. I believe all counties went to Trump except one. I have one friend from Oklahoma who gets it. She is a lonestar. She doesn't talk to her family very much. My fellow military bros and sisters from there are all pro Trump except those who got educated. I think they fell for the religious bullshit. When I served, I kept religion at a distance.

[ruet]

21. ...

[HighFired49]

33. I object! to your post, and to Markwayne

Be careful when you are painting with a broad brush. There are lots of us Dems. in Oklahoma, including all of my friends and family, and we don't appreciate being hit with your generalizations. Unfortunately, we are outnumbered about 2:1. Anyway, no hard feelings. Have a good day, Pup.

[Puppyjive]

68. I spent 9 years there

I know there are some dems in Oklahoma, but not very many. I feel for you. It's hard to progress in a state that is so red. Good luck to you!

[TNNurse]

69. As a lifelong liberal Democrat who is from the deep south,

I understand your complaint about the generalization. I have bitched about it on here and other places for years.

[LSparkle]

35. Isn't Jennifer Welch from IHIP from OKC?

There may be more “stealth progressives” out there. Nonetheless, he’ll probably be replaced by a Rethug.

[BaronChocula]

90. Yes

She moved to NY last year with her partner-in-crime slated to do the same early this year. But she is fresh out of OK.

[MoseShrute]

70. Hey!

This “okie” NEVER votes red.

[Puppyjive]

73. Good for you.

I was apolitical when I lived there. Wasn't into politics, but I remember some of my coworkers were big fans of Rush Limbaugh. I just happen to now get into debates with most of my friends from Oklahoma over politics. Some of them I have unfriended. I have a very dear friend from Oklahoma and Oklahoma runs deep in my life. I just don't understand the politics there, because Oklahomans are truly some of the kindest people I know

[MoseShrute]

99. I hear you

I worked for the federal government and I was shocked at the number of folks there who were anti-government. Seemed like the height of hypocrisy to me. There is a weird combination of hyper christianity and lack of education here. Divorce or adultery is ok as long as you go to church every Sunday and profess your love for SkyDaddy. I read a great book years ago about how during the Great Depression Oklahoma was the 6th poorest state in the nation. In the mid 1990s Oklahoma was still the 6th poorest state. If I recall correctly the book was Dancing With the Ghost of Tom Joad.

[rpannier]

100. All counties voted Tump

https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/oklahoma/

[evolves]

31. Yeah, but the governor

is a repuke, so will just appoint another knuckle dragger

[ruet]

43. I just read up on that.

What a sham. The appointee must be from the same party as vacancer... vacancier? ...vacansist?

[erronis]

79. Vacator, but I prefer Vacuist.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vacator

Damn, I'm good. I didn't know there was a word 'vacuist'. It seems fitting: Someone who believes that there is a vacuum between their ears.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vacuist

[Seinan Sensei]

97. What's between her ears can be described as "vacuous"

[BonnieJW]

87. Wow, from dumb to dumber

Then when he effs up, it will go to dumbest

[BumRushDaShow]

2. That will leave a vacancy for (R)s in the Senate

although governors can appoint a temp replacement until a special election.

[underpants]

49. Good call. 16-20 minutes later.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221073438

[muriel_volestrangler]

50. Looks like whoever is appointed will be there till Jan 2027, after the scheduled election

This is from when Mullin was rumoured as a Sec of Agriculture appointment in late 2024, but it looks like it still applies:

When a U.S. Senate vacancy occurs, Title 51, Section 10 requires the governor to appoint someone to fill the remainder of the term, and within 30 days it instructs the governor to call a special election under certain circumstances. The appointee must sign “an oath affirming that the person will not file as a candidate for the office when it next appears on the ballot.” However, the provision about calling a special election for a vacant U.S. Senate seat is subject to Title 26, Section 12-101, which states that “if the vacant office is already scheduled to be filled for a full term at the next available regularly scheduled election, then no special election shall be called.”

Because Mullin’s Senate seat is already up for consideration in 2026, whomever Stitt appoints would serve until that election concludes.

Whether an appointee’s prescribed “oath” declining a 2026 candidacy complies with the U.S. Constitution, however, is another question being studied and debated in Oklahoma political circles.

https://nondoc.com/2024/11/12/markwayne-mullin-cabinet-rumor-spurs-speculation/

In 1963, an Oklahoma senator died, the governor resigned, got himself appointed, but lost his primary the next year.

https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/E000055

[Scruffy1]

112. Reminds me of Wendel Anderson, governor of Minnesota.

Resigned, and had his Lt. Governor appoint him to the senate. End of career.

[nitpicked]

4. Link to CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/trump-kristi-noem-markwayne-mullin-dhs.html

[Traildogbob]

5. So now is prosecution for all

The criminal shit going to happen? She get to keep all the guns and outfits. Murder Chargers?

[sheshe2]

46. Is she taking her boy toy and 'blankie' with her?

[Traildogbob]

85. How dare you

Try to take this hearing into the gutter with those lies and propaganda.

I think she should be charged with all the theft and fraud and have to pay back the waste
The multi million dollar no bid contract to a friend, only a business for 8 weeks prior, should Land her in a detention center for years, no phone call, no attorney, and no trial until we can get around to it.

[sheshe2]

89. That works for me.

[Grokenstein]

6. Enjoy public life, puppy killer.

And enjoy your turn in the hot seat, Mullin. Have fun trying to run PR for the noo murikan gestapo.

[underpants]

9. 👋

[Brother Buzz]

10. Markwayne Mullin Is big trouble

And possibly a more prolific liar.

Expect more of the same from DHS

[Retrograde]

51. I expect worse

given what I’ve seen of Markwayne lately

[Brother Buzz]

59. Yes, he will haul the marmalade shartcannon's water

With more efficiency.

[tonekat]

78. Mullins is a Retrograde Hillbilly

Not much of an improvement over Noem.

[Brother Buzz]

86. Same ol' same ol' with far fewer dramatics

The marmalade shartcannon would deem that an improvement.

[flvegan]

11. She and Lewandowski will have to cheat on their spouses like normal people now. n/t

[0rganism]

12. Bonkers behavior. Just bonkers. The entire administration needs to be locked in a safe space with padded walls.

Completely nutso. Dangerous to themselves and others. Unsupervised children playing with loaded guns, matches, and oily rags.

To be clear, firing Noem isn't the crazy part. Hiring her in the first place is. Replacing her with Moron Mullin is extra crazy. Decreasing your party's majority in the senate to do so is super duper extra crazy.

[popsdenver]

22. I am continuing to suspect

that their election corruption has been perfected, and they could care less what happens to the House/Senate..........

The thing is: The Republican Senators, Republican House Members, and the Republican Supreme Court justices are so dumb, they don't realize that in a Dictatorship/Tyranny, there are no Judicial or Legislative Branches......LOL

[Fiendish Thingy]

28. If that was true, Noem wouldn't have been fired

If they had “perfected” their election corruption, there would be absolutely no need to fire Noem, because they wouldn’t be worried about how their ICE crimes might affect their chances in November.

[popsdenver]

36. Maybe so

But we know that he wants ALL attention, ALL the time, as well as ALL of the Media coverage to be directed to him, and she was not helping him, per se, but "all in" for only herself.....

[Fiendish Thingy]

45. Nothing can stop the Blue Tsunami in November

Firing Noem won’t help, especially if Mullin becomes an efficient and effective domestic terrorist and gets closer to meeting Miller’s quotas.

[returnee]

113. A Blue tsunami will be totally dependent...

…on a free fair election and vote count. To presume this is guaranteed is extremely and dangerously naive. Every Dem should have this as top line of their agenda, because we have the votes but votes can be suppressed and counts can be manipulated.

[Fiendish Thingy]

118. We certainly must be vigilant for ratfuckery and shenanigans

But in a year where 2024 Trump +20 districts are swinging 15-30+ points towards Dems, voter suppression, gerrymandering and other ham handed efforts will not be sufficient to “rig” the election in their favor.

This administration is an evil clown car of incompetent goat rodeo rejects, not the cadre of organized, efficient Nazis some imagine them to be.

because we have the votes but votes can be suppressed and counts can be manipulated.

While many states have enacted voter suppression measures, the SAVE act appears to be stalled in the senate. The undetected manipulation of vote counts is virtually impossible - it did not happen in 2024 (no it didn’t), and the attempts in previous elections were detected and the perpetrators dealt with harshly- just ask Tina Peters.

While they may sow chaos and destruction, outside of the executive branch they have very little actual, physical control.

Incidents debunking the myth of Trump’s omnipotence continue to pile up daily. Conspiracy theories about physically impossible scenarios - that is what is truly, dangerously naive.

[returnee]

119. Again, an extremely and dangerously...

…naive position to take given all that TSF is blatantly stating he wants to do and the people he has willing to help and desperate state he is in and the power that he has and what he has been able to get away with already.

[Fiendish Thingy]

120. Desperation does not mean he creates the reality he seeks

As I have said, outside of the executive branch, he has very little actual, physical control over anything, whether it is vote totals in hundreds of elections across the country, or on the ground in the nations he is destroying.

Desperation means his administration will continue to flail incompetently, ineffectively, and most importantly, obviously for all to see.

Just because Trump imagines something, and speaks it, does not mean it will become reality- when have seen that numerous times.

Just because someone can imagine a dystopian doomsday scenario and type it on the internet does not make that scenario plausible, possible or probable.

Sorry to hear that you continue to accept the myth of Trump’s omnipotence.

[dpibel]

91. What an odd assumption

There are quite a few other things that might have led to Noem's demise other than her potential effect on the midterms.

You know: taking attention away from the big boy, offending Stephen Miller, not being blonde.

Your notion that the only thing driving decisions is the elections is, frankly, silly.

[0rganism]

62. I sometimes think so too; however if they did perfect election corruption, it would be the first thing they did well

So far I have scant evidence to believe these assclowns are even halfway competent, and I have to grudgingly set my misgivings aside long enough to regard the possibility of their success at anything as an exceptional circumstance requiring exceptional corroboration. Granted, there certainly would be a lot of moving parts out of sight to the general public, but I can't just suppose they have their shit together without some indication of prior success.

They want to be a real big boy dictatorship so bad it hurts, and even with all their current advantages they're surprisingly ineffective at establishing one.

More likely most involved, especially Wiles, realize they're playing to an audience of one, and that one wants to see better poll numbers. The choice of Mullin is a mountain of mystery, but without strong evidence, I doubt it's a stroke of genius or a flex.

[Coldwater]

13. The reason trump hired Noem in the first place

was only after he read her bio, which included her willingness to kill her 14-month-old puppy Cricket, which he saw as an asset to become Homeland Security Secretary

[Chemical Bill]

32. I don't believe it!

Trump, read? He had someone from Faux News read him a summary.

[0rganism]

72. I think the willingness to murder was a bonus, the real reason...

South Dakota Snow Queen, 1990

[moonshinegnomie]

14. may her next job be making license plates in prison

[Attilatheblond]

25. Nope. She becomes a "special envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemispher

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-to-become-special-envoy-replaced-by-sen-markwayne-mullin/ar-AA1XBKbK]

Thinking that means he wants her out of the country so as to avoid process servers.

[stollen]

76. I wonder what it pays

and how much she'll be able to embezzle from taxpayers in this stint.

[lonely bird]

95. As my buddy said...

Kristi Noem, Agent of Shield. Great. (Where is my sarcasm button)

[popsdenver]

44. At this stage...........

Good luck with that thought..........

100+ Reagan appointees were indicted on Federal Charges, when he left office, the first day HWBush took office, he pardoned every single one of them.......HW's remaining four years, he was playing CYA for the un-fathomable number of things that were done in the Reagan administration, (since almost ALL were orchestrated by HW and his CABAL), and it gave him time, and cover to "disappear" all the evidence............

[Sanity Claws]

15. Republicans in Senate go down one.

The repub OK governor will appoint another Repub but how long will it take? It would be nice if the governor has problems finding someone.

[oasis]

16. Bye bye Barbi!

[PassingFair]

18. I'm sure that the "bipartisan" fury...

Was just a trailer for her firing.

[Ellipsis]

19. Out but not really... The "Shield of the Americas"

AI

The "Shield of the Americas"- is a U.S.-led security initiative and summit, proposed for March 2026 in Miami, focusing on strengthening regional coordination among select Latin American and Caribbean nations. It addresses organized crime, narcotics trafficking, and regional stability, while counteracting Chinas influence in the Western Hemisphere

It functions as a smaller, invitation-based, "like-minded" alliance designed to advance regional security and, as described by supporters, uphold a "Neo-Monroe Doctrine" to prevent foreign adversaries from establishing footholds in the region.

Kristi Noem is set to act as the Special Envoy for this initiative, according to reports in March 2026.

[Blue Owl]

20. Problem is, the idiot that installed Noem is still in

tRump can rearrange the deck chairs all he wants but his titanic is still going DOWN

[twodogsbarking]

23. She should have bleached her hair.

[Attilatheblond]

26. Score!

[calimary]

82. But hey, she'll have SO MUCH MORE TIME to prioritize her makeup and hair.

Her looks. That’s all she’s ever cared about. You can tell just by looking at her. I’ve known women like her since high school. It was never about what was in the package. Only how decoratively it was wrapped.

[twodogsbarking]

110. and she ain't wrapped too tight

[Blues Heron]

24. Back to your gravel pit Ice Barbie, your killing days are over

Let Justice be served and karma begin

[angrychair]

40. Still working in government apparently

She actually was given another job as "special envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere" ugh

[Blues Heron]

52. Bummer. At least she won't be in charge of Ice etc.

[erronis]

98. I think she was in charge of "ice skating" --- ICE crimming and getting away with it.

[popsdenver]

27. Of all the times to not have

an experienced knowledgeable person heading the Homeland Security....this is it........

I am justifiably worried about another 9/11 or worse. Every Terrorist organization in the Mid East is gonna come looking for revenge in the U.S............

If Mullin is going to adopt and use any of "her" Jets, I would recommend a HAZMAT crew sterilize everything inside the planes.........

[Kali]

48. they don't need to waste time/resources on that

repukes do all the work for them

[AZ8theist]

29. One wonders who Mullin is cheating with....

...apparently a job requirement.

[Coldwater]

30. Her 14-month-old puppy cricket who she shot can now finally RIP

[sinkingfeeling]

34. The brainless Senator?

[bluestarone]

37. This feels good because i'm thinking TSF wouldn't do if he didn't have too.

Love seeing that TSF had no choice here.

[Tim S]

38. Does this mean Lewandowski has to sleep with Mullin now?

[SusieCreamcheese]

42. That's a good one Tim! nt

[rurallib]

58. from top to bottom to save his job

[stollen]

80. Depends on how good Mullen looks in a hat

1) You can leave your hat on. 💋

2) You can take your hat off. 👎

[SusieCreamcheese]

39. Mullin is a moron.

I just saw this guy Mullin in an interview about the "war" in Iran and he couldn't put together a coherent sentence. I was thinking, "what an idiot", and then I read about this shit! Does he have to go before the Senate for confirmation? That will be a real circus.
The puppy killer wasn't fired, she was moved to a made-up position in order for fatso to save face.
What's going to become of Loverboy Lewendowski?

[regnaD kciN]

55. He's a senator from Oklahoma, which is saying the same thing...

[NNadir]

41. This is very bad news...

...at least if you're a dog in south Dakota.

It's pretty good news if you're a human being somewhere else. The replacement, predictably, sounds like an asshole.

[BidenRocks]

47. No more pResidential protection?

Charge her and deport her to CECOT!
A fitting end for the misery she wrought!

[Vogon_Glory]

111. I suspect that Noem's safe from prosecution while she's in the US, BUT

she’s going to have to be very choosy about which countries she visits if she decides to go abroad. I can imagine her visiting some civilized country or other and getting arrested for her crimes against the innocent. She doesn’t even have to be a tourist: she could just be changing planes.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

53. What about her boyfriend..?

[blue_jay]

54. Great, he's one of the few people my other half actually pointed out spontaneously to me

how terrible they thought he was. Probably/ possibly worse than the Kringy one

[mac56]

56. Dog gone.

[CapnSteve]

57. Does this mean that Markwayne has to start porking Corey Lewandowski?

...I think Corey is a feature of the lux airplane....

Hey Trump: Epstein Epstein Epstein! Tick tock...

[Escape]

60. My sister lives in Bartlesville...

..and she says "markwayne" is Oklahoman for "dumbshit".

[Martin Eden]

61. The sexual escapades upset Donald

She refused to perform the same things with him that she did with Corey Lewandowski.

He only hired her because of her botox lips.

[QueerDuck]

63. Did she grab a free pardon from the mint-dish on her way out?

[appmanga]

64. Had her in Kalshi as the first to go...

...but it had to happen a month ago. Hang the money, this still makes me happy.

[ECL213]

65. OH, JFC...

Out of the dumbfuck and into the dumberfuck.

[NBachers]

66. So now Warkmayne's driving the Clown Car.

[Scalded Nun]

67. ...and there ends her mile-high fuckfest.

[Mysterian]

71. Replaced by an even more stupid imbecile

Mullins is dumber than a box of rocks. Noem was in-between a box of rocks and slime mold on the intelligence scale.

[LiberalArkie]

74. It will give Trump a chance to blame it all on Noem and back away from it all and he hopes to not loose all the midterm?

[Bobstandard]

75. Jimmy Kimmel just did a whole segment on how dumb Markwayne is

The videos don’t lie but they are funny. Or were until this news.

[Rhiagel]

102. Watched that. The Idiot kept getting Iraq and Iran mixed up.

He should fit right in with the other nitwits in TSF's administration.

[WestMichRad]

77. There really is a bottom line for TSF sycophants?!

Who knew?

[BluesRunTheGame]

81. Merkin Muffley?

[Playingmantis]

83. I hope, but doubt, that she lashes out like MTG has done

Good riddance

[patphil]

84. Unfortunately there are a lot of equally bad right wing politicians to replace ones who gets dumped for being so evil.

Mullin isn't going to be much of an improvement. He might be a bit more discrete, but will be just as bad when it comes to not fixing what's broken in the ICE and CBP organizations.
The prison camps are here to stay, as will be the expansion of these camps that has been going on since Trump was elected. You might see some improvement in conditions in the camps, and perhaps better medical care, but otherwise it'll be the same old same old.
We're still going to see Trump's brown shirts kidnap people off the streets, and engage in violence against US citizens who protest what they're doing.
Policy isn't going to change. State terrorism will just have a new face.

[cloudbase]

88. Don't forget to take your blanket!

Oh, and change those sheets on the plane. Thanks.

[Mr. Sparkle]

92. Surprising choice, every time i have seen him he was shit on camera

not a usual trump pick.

[HighFired49]

117. "every time i have seen him he was shit on camera"

Ahhh, then you've seen him at his best.

[ConstanceCee]

93. What Happens to Her New Airplanes?

[mdbl]

94. She's NOT out if she is still sucking on the government teet and Donald Rump's ........

[LetMyPeopleVote]

96. Kristi Noem may have learned of her firing from Truth Social: report

trump did not tell her that she was fired except on social media

It's unclear how now former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem discovered she was fired, and reports Thursday indicate she could have found out about it on Truth Social.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-05T20:31:08.555Z

https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-fired

It's unclear how now former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem discovered she was fired, and reports Thursday indicate she could have found out about it on Truth Social.

CNN senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes reported that Noem was speaking at the Sergeant Benevolent Association Major Cities Conference in Nashville just as President Donald Trump had announced via his Truth Social platform that he would replace her with MAGA ally and former MMA fighter Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and demote her to "Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas." A White House official said she was apparently aware as she was speaking that she had lost her position.

"Now I do not know the order of events in terms of whether or not she learned before or he actually posted this, or during the time that he was posting this, that I'm still trying to get to the bottom of," Holmes said. "But she is aware that he has put this out there now, the other thing to note here is that she's been asked a number of questions, and nobody has asked her about it, so clearly there's probably several people in that audience who don't know that this announcement just happened roughly an hour ago or less."

[Upthevibe]

101. Kick. N/T

[orangecrush]

103. There has to be something heavy going on behind the scenes

I really wonder what happened.

[hamsterjill]

104. I wonder if she will go all MTG-like?

Just thinking...

EDITED TO ADD: Nah, I see now that Trump gave good, ole puppy killer herself a consolation prize. So she won't be spilling anything. She'll take what he gives her and be grateful.

Too bad.

[Historic NY]

105. Replacing dumb with an imbecile jackwagon

how long is that going to work.

[mwb970]

106. What a relief. Noem is even harder to look at than trump.

[Hassler]

107. One thing Pedo-in-Chief is good at

Is humiliating people who work for him. Imagine being replaced by moron Mar kwayne Mullin. Gnome had a good gig playing governor in South Dakota and now she's a joke with a loser husband and loverboy looking for his next Hope Hicks

[generalbetrayus]

108. Dogs and goats in South Dakota are scared.

[Skittles]

109. trash out, garbage in

"meet the new boss, same as the old boss"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

114. The new job will give Noem more opportunities for cosplay

Link to tweet

[Ray Bruns]

115. The five stages of White House employment

[COL Mustard]

116. "Steam" has the best song for the occasion....