Donald Trump on Thursday said Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin will replace Kristi Noem as Department of Homeland Security secretary.
Trump made the announcement on social media Thursday afternoon saying he was "pleased to announce that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), effective March 31, 2026."
The sources said the president was upset with a particular moment during the hearing when Republican Sen. John Kennedy questioned Noem about a taxpayer-funded $220 million ad campaign. Noem repeatedly suggested the president was aware of the campaign and signed off on it.
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ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 65 pts · 177d
Not fired, she's getting promoted to Team America Western Hemisphere Police.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 27 pts · 177d
I don't know if this irony or not anymore
cattywampas@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 177d
Yes fired, she was removed from her position and assigned to another. It's sugar-coated but it's still fired.
sbbq@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 177d
That's not what fired means. If you still have a job, you haven't been fired. Demoted, reassigned, sure. Fired would mean she doesn't have a job with the company anymore.
brianinohio@piefed.social · 3 pts · 177d
Not in Trump's world. He "re-assigns" rather than fire because firing implies he made a mistake in hiring. He learned this in his first term when his constant firing drew attention.
deacon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 177d
Edit: I deleted a lot of this that made it obvious I did not read all of the comment I was responding to. But,
My guess is that there are/will be two levels of removal:
Moving to another job because you’re a Good Soldier and will Keep Your Mouth Shut about the countless things they aren’t telling us, or
The window method popularized by our President’s real constituent
totesmygoat@piefed.ca · 56 pts · 177d
Wow. I just looked up Markwayne. An unqualified moron. He'll fit right in. I'm sure his experience as a college dropout and plumbing business is the perfect life skills to bring to the DHS. Well... It is a shit show.
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 177d
Don't forget his storied MMA career!
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 177d
The irony of a Native American running DHS is not lost on me.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 177d
That motherfucker far removed from being a Native American. I have non existing grandkids who will have more native American blood then he does.
mephiska@fedia.io · -1 pts · 177d
It said he has his associates degree! That's hardly a dropout....And he's an "entrepreneur who has started multiple businesses." Perfect guy to lead the DHS.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 177d
Associates degree was still after dropping out according to the wiki.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 177d
Don’t they need to go through a confirmation process, too?
Ppl that execute their own dogs shouldn’t be in charge of anyone that can execute humans.
Canconda@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 177d
That's why she's being put in charge of PETA.
stephen@lazysoci.al · 24 pts · 177d
JaymesRS@piefed.world · 13 pts · 177d
We get 2 first names for the price of one!
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 177d
That's because they had to distinguish him from his brother-uncle.
MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 177d
To be clear, inbred poster boy, Markwayne Mullin, will almost certainly be worse than Noem. Mullin tried to physically fight someone during an official proceeding until Bernie Sanders yelled at him to sit down and behave like a member of Congress.
Mullin tried ripping the "Black People Are Not Apes" sign out of Al Green's hand during the State of the Union.
There are pictures of Mullin cowering in fear during Jan 6, after helping incite it. There are pictures of Mullin standing on a box behind a podium to match the height of his debate opponent.
He is an inbred and a coward with a chip on his shoulder. Expect more Constitutional violations.
Found this elsewhere by another user, but wanted to share.
marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 177d
Got asked about a shady-ass contract, says Trump knew all about it, gets an immediate denial by Trump and gets replaced within a couple days. If there’s a more obvious way to telegraph that the contract was indeed shady as shit, I can’t think of it. Senate better not let this go.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 177d
Now do Bondi
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 176d
And there it is. Killing Americans, violating the Constitution, lying, stealing, being a literal Nazi, none of that matters. To Trump, the only thing you can do wrong is prioritize anything over him.
Noem should be in jail and Mullin is just a PR switch, but I find this detail most telling about where the lines remain for Trump.
mp3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 177d
Awww she just lost her flying boudoir. :'(
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 177d
Release the Epstein Files
brianinohio@piefed.social · 4 pts · 177d
About time. Not like Mullin is gonna be any better though.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 177d
A bottle of Viagra mislabeled as Vicodin would do a better job, probably.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 177d
Fired because of stuff she's been doing, or stuff she hasn't been doing?
Oh, that makes sense. Fired for a petty reason by the hurt snowflake in charge.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 3 pts · 177d
These idiots who race with each other to prove they are the best ass lickers don't realize how expandible they are in such an opportunistic and fascist regime.
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 177d
Mullin is such a piece of shit, I don't think it's an upgrade.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 177d
What in the banjo-plucking sibling-fucking hee-hawing fuck is that appointment?! May as just appoint Cletus the slack-jawed yokel to the role and be done with it.