Trump picks Kristi Noem to serve as his Homeland Security secretary

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Published 1:00 AM EST, Tue November 12, 2024


CNN — President-elect Donald Trump has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to two people familiar with the selection.

Noem will be tapped to take over the agency as two key immigration hardliners — Stephen Miller and Tom Homan — are slated to serve in senior roles, signaling Trump is serious about his promise to crack down on his immigration pledges. With his selection of Noem, Trump is ensuring a loyalist will head an agency he prioritizes and that is key to his domestic agenda.

The department saw an immense amount of turmoil the last time Trump was in office. Then, DHS had five different leaders, only two of whom were Senate-confirmed. The agency has a $60 billion budget and hundreds of thousands of employees.

Noem, who previously was a South Dakota representative, will now be tasked with overseeing a sprawling agency that oversees everything from US Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the US Secret Service.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary/index.html

[Ocelot II]

1. I guess puppy murdering proves she's cruel enough for the job.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Prerequisite. ...

So now we find out that she was just padding her resume.

[underpants]

20. BUT!....

She didn’t eat it.

As far as we know.

[Bluetus]

43. Because the Gov of SD has so much experience with the southern border

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which is Trump's most important concern.

[DENVERPOPS]

90. the infamous, despicable governor

of maybe the lowest population state in the union has not one glimmer of the job he has given her...... But she has proved to be a subservient Trumphumping woman, which makes her the perfect "New" Republican......

[Marcuse]

61. Employees found insufficiently loyal or useful to the President will be terminated regardless of civil service status.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Sure won't be many {insert racist epithet} curs creeping around while Elmer Noem is wabbit hunting! . . nt

[madaboutharry]

4. We are truly fucked.

Kristi Noem is a bona fide dumbbell.

I am now seriously terrified. Before becoming Governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem was first elected to Congress on the qualification of having won a beauty contest and being crowned South Dakota's Snow Queen. I kid you not. Look it up.

I am certain that the woman hasn't read a book since middle school. Not only is she an incredibly stupid person and a dog murderer, she is also corrupt. You can look that up too.

+ 1,000,000 more crying emojis.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Now the Snow Queen controls ICE. . . . .nt

[underpants]

12. That was my first reaction too

See elleng’s post below detailing the breadth of power and responsibilities of DHS. As I stated there, she could just be a rubber stamp for Miller and Homan to do whatever the hell they want.

[hatrack]

26. This. Precisely this.

.

[Devilsun]

73. She allegedly help come up with SD anti-drugvslogan: Meth, we're on it!!! 🤔

[RandySF]

6. Hide your pets.

[elleng]

7. Couldn't handle her pup, but

'no prob' w HomeLand Security, enacted in response to the September 11 attacks. With more than 240,000 employees,[1] DHS is the third-largest Cabinet department, after the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.[4] Homeland security policy is coordinated at the White House by the Homeland Security Council. Other agencies with significant homeland security responsibilities include the departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy.

List of incorporated agencies
Original agency Original department New agency or office after transfer
U.S. Customs Service Treasury U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Immigration and Naturalization Service Justice U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Federal Protective Service General Services Administration Management Directorate
Transportation Security Administration Transportation Transportation Security Administration
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Treasury Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
(part) Agriculture U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Federal Emergency Management Agency none Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Strategic National Stockpile Health and Human Services Originally assigned to FEMA, Returned to HHS, July 2004
National Disaster Medical System Health and Human Services Originally assigned to FEMA, Returned to HHS, August 2006
Nuclear Incident Response Team Energy Responsibilities distributed within FEMA
Domestic Emergency Support Team Justice Responsibilities distributed within FEMA
Center for Domestic Preparedness Justice (FBI) Responsibilities distributed within FEMA
CBRN Countermeasures Programs Energy Science & Technology Directorate
Environmental Measurements Laboratory Energy Science & Technology Directorate
National Biological Warfare
Defense Analysis Center Defense Science & Technology Directorate
Plum Island Animal Disease Center Agriculture Science & Technology Directorate
Federal Computer Incident Response Center General Services Administration US-CERT, Office of Cybersecurity and Communications
National Programs and Preparedness Directorate (now CISA)
National Communications System Defense Office of Cybersecurity and Communications
National Programs and Predaredness Directorate
National Infrastructure Protection Center Justice (FBI) Office of Operations Coordination
Office of Infrastructure Protection
Energy Security and Assurance Program Energy Office of Infrastructure Protection
U.S. Coast Guard Transportation U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Secret Service Treasury U.S. Secret Service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security

OBVIOUSLY impossible to administer adequately.

[underpants]

11. It's an incredibly powerful cabinet position

She’s no where near qualified to lead it unless her role is to let Miller and Homan do whatever they want. Chilling.

[elleng]

15. It's a RIDICULOUS cabinet position, NO ONE can handle it adequately.

[underpants]

19. Yes it was a poor reaction to 9/11

It was meant to better coordinate communication between agencies but it also shredded existing hierarchies and SOP. Yes there’s a territorial aspect but a better solution would have been a centralized communications operation.

One of the biggest effects I’ve read about is Secret Service. That was under Treasury (the old Wild Wild West TV show) and SS agents were the rock stars and were treated as such in Treasury. If you were a State Trooper let’s say and SS recruited you, you signed up. Long hours, tons of time away from home but it was quite an honor. After DHS, recruitment suffered as it was just another small little part of this gigantic whole.

[elleng]

21. Right.

Thanks for the analysis.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. They literally had to cobble together a Department

by cannibalizing agencies from a number of Departments to do so, including Treasury, USDA, and DOT (the latter to get what would be TSA). Reworking Customs alone was just bizarre by suddenly combining it with what was then INS. The result ended up far surpassing the-then oft-ridiculed HHS, as having the most employees.

When I was still working for the feds when this happened, I was in a building that had agencies from 12 different Departments and had acquaintances with some of the employees from those other agencies (including those my agency worked with on occasion), some of whom ended up sucked into DHS.

[elleng]

70. Yes, they did;

I too, as a fed, observed it with wonder.

[jfz9580m]

37. Wow yeah-that is a lot of responsibility.nt

[JohnnyRingo]

41. Yes, she'll be in over her head, but she's pretty.

Trump like to employ ̶s̶m̶a̶r̶t̶,̶ ̶e̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶e̶n̶t̶, attractive women.

[Think. Again.]

8. I guess our only hope for the next 4 years are low-key, behind-the-scenes, true patriots...

...who will be willing to risk protecting us from from some very dangerous authority figures.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Puppy Blaster is experienced in the disappearing department.

The beating will continue until morale improves.

This whole cabinet is a farce, like satire of a sadist government that ran on humanitarian principles.

[Simeon Salus]

10. This cabinet will be filled with airheads too stupid to interrupt the boss when he's screwing up

No 5-stars in this cabinet.

[The Madcap]

32. It's really sad

When Marco Rubio is the genius in the room.

[Initech]

79. It's the cabinet of, by, and for Fox News hosts.

Hellllllllllllllllo ratings!

[Simeon Salus]

81. Wingnut welfare.

They rotate into the entertainment channel and then run for office with better media experience.

If you REALLY SCREW UP like Ollie North or Jeanine Pirro they throw small bundles of money your way and put you on TV occasionally. If you avoid crashing the NRA, then you'll eventually get a job on The Five.

Exiles end up at Heritage and AEI, rotating through state machines. Or hired as consultants by friendly businesses.

It's a real thing.

[Initech]

84. Fox News isn't so much a news network as it is a multi-level marketing firm.

Really - if you appear on their shows enough and say exactly what they want to hear and don't screw up, you get promoted. Do it enough times and you get a job for life. Screw up even once and they send you back to the dredges. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[Akakoji]

13. FEMA. And the US Secret Service.

Not to mention Immigration and Border Security. God help us all.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

17. Don't forget the Coast Guard!

Possibly the most active of our armed services with a broad and important portfolio of duties.

[Bengus81]

45. How long till all protection from the secret service are gone for Clinton,Obama and Biden?

They will all be reassigned to protect the Fuehrer.

[24601]

52. Lifetime protection for former presidents and their spouses and minor children is provided by law. Protection of others

is discretionary. I would not expect former VPs to receive a detail without a specific threat.

Nixon remains the only former president who gave up his protection.

[rickford66]

54. I thought Jackie Kennedy gave up her protection at some point.

[24601]

59. I believe that her protection ended upon her remarriage. Her kids kept theirs until age 16.

[24601]

63. Public Law No: 112-257

"Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012 - Amends the federal criminal code to eliminate certain limitations on the length of Secret Service protection for former Presidents and their spouses and children. Authorizes the Secret Service to protect: (1) former Presidents and their spouses for their lifetimes, except that protection of a spouse shall terminate in the event of remarriage; and (2) children of a former President who are under age 16."

https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/6620

[multigraincracker]

14. Please fasten your seat belts.

Turbulence ahead possible.

[ribrepin]

16. Hail, Hail, the Gang's All

[Irish_Dem]

18. Billions of dollars in discretionary funding.

Kristi Noem just won the lottery.

All that plastic surgery and whatever else she had to do for Trump paid off bigly.

[genxlib]

23. All politics and capabilities aside

Someone from South Dakota won't know squat about 99% of what they do?

Borders, Coast Guard, Secret Service, Customs, TSA, Emergency Management?

There are a dozen people in his orbit that have intersected these issues more in their career. They would all be horrible but at least you could say the resume adds up.

Sounds like a rubber stamper to me.

[GenThePerservering]

24. She won't last. nt

[Vinca]

25. OMG - lock your dogs up.

[True Dough]

27. "They're shooting the dogs! They're shooting the cats!"

What a lame administration this is going to be!

[True Dough]

28. "They're shooting the dogs! They're shooting the cats!"

What a lame administration this is going to be!

[Lovie777]

29. Good bye national and homeland security.....

Can’t wait for military parades to begin.

[ancianita]

55. And hello Putin, Kremlin, FSB and GRU.

Through Starlink.

[kerouac2]

30. We need to put out psa's every week

Psa style ads on select channels to reach target audiences that include large numbers of ignorant voters. Air them during sports events I guess. Only way Americans will learn about what trump is doing and does in their name.

[The Madcap]

31. The incompetence continues.

But at least South Dakota will be done with her.

So far, these picks are going to really harm these agencies via incompetence. They won't have to end them via executive or legislative action. Sheer stupidity will do it.

[Prairie Gates]

33. The pool is remarkably shallow - few qualified people will work with him

Then the patronage kicks in. Noem managed to pretend that Trump wasn't having an episode during his "playlist" town hall and has generally been a craven loyalist, so she fits the bill.

The really notable thing about his picks so far is their lack of qualifications mixed with the extreme (corrupt) patronage. Truly a kakistocracy.

[Old Crank]

34. Another DEI hire

by woke trump.

[Woodwizard]

35. The next 4 years.

Are going to be one long hold my beer moment.

[Evolve Dammit]

66. Yep. We are on our own more than ever.

[Historic NY]

36. Just for context

3 counties in the Mid-Hudson Valley have more population than her entire state of nothingless.

[C_U_L8R]

38. What could go wrong?

Everything. It's the freakin Peter Principle on ketamine.

[travelingthrulife]

39. The fool who probably knows less about border issues than my dog.

We are in hell.

[JohnnyRingo]

40. I can see why he picked her, she's a attractive woman.

She also almost graduated from college, but finished later online.

Two notable paragraphs from her Wiki:

At a 2023 NRA forum in Indiana, Noem said that her two-year-old granddaughter had a shotgun, a rifle, and a "little pony named Sparkles".

On November 18, 2019, Noem released a meth awareness campaign named "Meth. We're on It". The campaign was widely mocked and Noem was criticized for spending $449,000 of public funds while hiring an out-of-state advertising agency from Minnesota to lead the project. She defended the campaign as successful in raising awareness.

Yes, I can see why she was chosen.

[Harker]

48. I suppose, "Meth. It's what's for dinner!" was considered. n/t

[dweller]

50. If ever a slogan

Should be revived for this misadmin …

METH - WE’RE ON IT

is perfect


✌🏻

[lark]

42. In this country, all dogs are now very afraid.

Of course tsf would pick the worst of the worst, the most hate filled person (after him and Nazi Miller) he could find. Where is her national security experience - she has zero.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

69. Butt she is a non-stop ass kisser and toady.

In Trump World, that is qualification #1. I agree with other posters in that we are royally fucked here.

[NBachers]

46. Merry circus calliope music during the internment camp round-ups.

[IronLionZion]

47. Cruella DeVille

[NYC Liberal]

49. How long will she last?

Look at his last term and what happened with all the people who worked with him day to day. All but the most loyal of sycophants ended up running away or getting pushed out eventually.

It’s one thing to be a MAGA cheerleader on the campaign trail, a whole other to actually work (and I use that term loosely) with him.

[OLDMDDEM]

51. Her first order during the next disaster is to shoot the abandoned/homeless pets.

[D. Spaulding]

53. Someone should have told Trump she had plastic surgery

Which is what some of his people supposedly told him about Loomer to quell his interest in her.
But wow, Noem is a horrible pick

[joanbarnes]

56. Watch out Dogs everywhere!

A Governor opening?

[Marcuse]

58. Employees found insufficiently loyal and useful to the President will be terminated regardless of civil service status.

[TBF]

60. They were so concerned about Peanut the Squirrel -

and now they elevate this serial animal killer?

[Grins]

62. Her expertise being....? NM

[paleotn]

64. The parade of unqualified wankers continues.

[Texin]

65. He's picking psychopaths and dipshits to surround him.

[Evolve Dammit]

68. Drumpf hates dogs. Puppy killing was the big feature in that resume. What an unqualified bimbo. Palin-esque. n/t

[LT Barclay]

71. First they came for the puppies...

[bluestarone]

72. So will SD get a new Governor?

How does that work?

[jmowreader]

75. What usually happens is the lieutenant governor is elevated to governor

The current lieutenant governor is Larry Rhoden. He's a rancher who's got a significant legislative track record: four and a half terms in the SD House, a term and a half in the SD Senate. The half-terms are explained as such: during his second Senate term he ran for the US Senate but lost the primary, and he had to leave the SD Senate to run for the US Senate - where he lost his primary election. His fifth term in the House was interrupted by him running for lieutenant governor, a race he won.

He's apparently a decent-enough gentleman, although he's got a track record of breaking gavels. The second gavel he broke was one he made himself - he is a talented woodworker.

I think he'll make things better in South Dakota as governor, largely because after Kristi Noem there isn't much of a way he could make anything worse.

[Duncan Grant]

74. Is she willing to commit atrocities? Mmmm, maybe. Just a few.

The Covid Queen of South Dakota

[LudwigPastorius]

76. Well, at least the country will be safe from lovable, rambunctious puppies.

[Jacson6]

77. The dogs are protesting her selection!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DWq44mEu3ic?t=10&feature=share

[Turbineguy]

78. No stray dogs!

[ificandream]

80. He will be the Depolorable President.

[Dogdirt]

82. Kristi Noem to serve as his Homeland Security secretary

A dog killer and gun nut! God help us!!!

[louis-t]

83. Only picked because they're hardliners.

Not because they have ANY experience. Kristi Noem is known for her clashes with Native Americans. Everyone, let's sit back and watch the dismantling and selling off of our country.

[Karasu]

85. Oh, joy.

I feel so much safer knowing we're going to be protected from all those dangerous puppies out there.

[Xipe Totec]

86. The Minister of Love nt

[Montauk6]

87. IN SOUTH DAKOTA.... THEY'RE SHOOTING THE DOGS!

[RANDYWILDMAN]

88. Her prize for hosting the town hall

let's just stay here and dance....badly...nothing WEIRD about it

[bdamomma]

89. she

will do a lot of damage. That is his goal.

[DonCoquixote]

91. well well flordia

I guess she will manage fema well...(sarcasm) I cannot take pleasure in that because they will take the liberals and throw them on the bonfire

[WokeAintWhatIAm]

92. They're shooting the dogs, they're shooting the cats

These birds better be careful about migration...