Noem wins the prize for first to hear “You’re Fired”. Is Bondi next?
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In the time it took to write this post. Trump Fired Noem.
Truth Social: I am 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 current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida. I thank Kristi for her service at “Homeland.”
Serving 10 years in the United States House of Representatives, and 3 in the Senate, Markwayne has done a tremendous job representing the wonderful People of Oklahoma, where I won all 77 out of 77 Counties — in 2016, 2020, and 2024! A MAGA Warrior, and former undefeated professional MMA fighter, Markwayne truly gets along well with people, and knows the Wisdom and Courage required to Advance our America First Agenda. As the only Native American in the Senate, Markwayne is a fantastic advocate for our incredible Tribal Communities. Markwayne will work tirelessly to Keep our Border Secure, Stop Migrant Crime, Murderers, and other Criminals from illegally entering our Country, End the Scourge of Illegal Drugs and, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. Markwayne will make a spectacular Secretary of Homeland Security. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Previously Posted Details
Trump Looking for Alternatives to Noem
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Is Preparing to Fire Kristi Noem
The president has already been asking aides and congressional Republicans for names of potential replacements, the advisers said.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said, “Secretary Noem serves at the pleasure of the President.” The White House didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The final straw for Trump was Noem’s combative hearing Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which showed bipartisan frustration with Noem’s leadership, the advisers said.
Noem’s decision to allot $200 million for an ad campaign, featuring herself urging those living illegally in the U.S. to self-deport, had already rankled the president for months for its self-promotional style.
At the hearing, Noem told senators that the president had signed off on the ad campaign—an assertion that upset Trump, who told senators and advisers he had not signed off on such a campaign.
Key Moments From Kristi Noem’s Congressional Testimony
Also consider Key Moments From Kristi Noem’s Congressional Testimony
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, where she fielded questions about deportation quotas, her spending on TV ads and the Trump administration’s immigration operations in Minneapolis.
Republican Senator calls for Noem’s resignation
North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis said Homeland Security had been “a disaster” under Noem’s leadership, characterized by imprecise immigration enforcement in the pursuit of arbitrary deportation targets.
“We just want numbers. We want 1,000 a day, 6,000 a day, 9,000 a day because numbers matter, right?,” the senator said. “No, they don’t matter. Quality matters, not quantity, quality.”
Tillis held up a letter from the DHS Office of Inspector General outlining 10 instances in which investigators said they were misled or blocked from pursuing investigations under Noem’s leadership.
“That is stonewalling, that’s a failure of leadership and that is why I’ve called for your resignation,” he said.
Tillis threatened to slow the confirmation of judicial nominations in the Senate unless he received answers to outstanding questions about Homeland Security’s immigration crackdown in Charlotte, N.C., and threatened a procedural boycott of votes on bills if the answers weren’t forthcoming within two weeks.
Earlier, Noem had denied that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had deportation quotas. However, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told Fox News host Sean Hannity last year that ICE had a goal of 3,000 arrests a day.
Tillis said Noem’s leadership had produced a department culture in which innocent Americans were detained and two were fatally shot by federal immigration agents.
“We’re beginning to get the American people to think deporting people is wrong,” he said. “It’s the exact opposite. The way we’re going about deporting them is wrong.”
Tillis also chastised Noem for shooting her dog, Cricket, which Noem has said is proof of her ability to make tough decisions. Tillis said it was a bad decision made in the heat of the moment, “not unlike what happened up in Minneapolis.”
Noem defends spend on TV ads that put her front and center.
Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy accused Noem of putting President Trump in a “terribly awkward spot” when Homeland Security spent $220 million on a TV-ad campaign that featured her prominently warning immigrants in the U.S. illegally—in English—to “leave now.”
The Wall Street Journal has previously reported the ads rankled many inside the administration because they thought the campaign was more focused on Noem than the administration’s message and signaled her own presidential aspirations.
Noem told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Trump asked her several times to run the ads, which are still airing, and denied she improperly funneled most of the ad spend to a company run by the husband of her former spokeswoman.
Blind Man Released by ICE in the Cold Freezes to Death
Sixteen-year-old Sebastian, an asylum-seeker from Ecuador, was driving in Minneapolis when immigration agents pulled him over in early January. He managed to call his father before they confiscated his phone. Then he disappeared. Instead of processing him locally, federal agents moved him from holding area to holding area, kept him overnight in a HOTEL under guard, and then flew him to Michigan. He was placed in a federally contracted Christian youth shelter, and given 5 vaccines. All while his family had no idea where he was.
How Many Are Dead?
For Profit ICE
These liars can’t keep their lies straight.
Of course there is a quota. And this administration does not give a damn how many US citizens are arrested or even killed in the process.
Unfortunately, none of that matters. Trump does not give a damn about the Constitution or what happens to any of these people.
Noem is doing as Trump and Steve Miller want. When Republicans finally complain, Noem is the scapegoat.
Senator Tillis is correct “Noem’s leadership had produced a department culture in which innocent Americans were detained and two were fatally shot by federal immigration agents.”
It’s much worse than that as the videos above show.
I repeat, No, ICE Is Nothing Like the Gestapo, Except When It Is
Some readers objected to my use of the word Gestapo to describe ICE. Let’s investigate.
ICE Tells New Recruits to Violate the Constitution. Time to Impeach Noem
On February 25, 2026, I commented ICE Tells New Recruits to Violate the Constitution. Time to Impeach Noem
I’ve seen enough. Impeach Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem.
Well, it looks like Democrats won’t have that opportunity. Trump will fire her first. But for the wrong reason.
Is Bondi next?
There have been 200,000 to 1.9M illegal immigrant self-deportations in 2025. Quotas, that contributed to unremitting DHS arrests, have been the greatest form of advertisement to self-deport.
Grip, Grip, Grip.
Should be placed with Impeach, Convict and Repair.
I don’t think this really means much. She’s just been reassigned to some undefined position.
What really changes in Minnesota? Not much is my guess
Police officers/departments sometimes work outside the boundaries of the law. They should face the consequences, but that does not mean law enforcement should not enforce the laws. ICE has a purpose and has for decades. Clean it up and fire those that believe laws don’t apply to them. Massive hiring with little to no oversight has led to extreme quality issues.
Immigration raids are not new and were actually common back in the 1980s where I live.
Those that have circumvented the law at border entry have committed a crime, as defined by law. In a humane manner, they should be deported but not treated as dogs. The US encouraged people to enter the US by any means and I would have done the same for my family if I was desperate.
The Biden admin opened up the flood gates at the already porous border, most likely his administration’s effort to tackle massive inflationary effects of reckless spending. Immigration networks were built by tax payer money that was flowing to non-profit orgs throughout the world. As a nation, the US has always supported legal immigration, but not illegal immigration. My great grandfather’s brother was denied entry into the US in the early 1900s because he was missing an eye and was deemed not to provide any benefit to the US workforce. Times have certainly changed.
Trump’s heavy handedness has already cost him the Latino vote as evidenced by elections in Texas, even in rural counties. As a result, dems are now poised to take power and the border will be wide open again. I suspect they’ll let 10 million in right away as revenge on the GOP and there will be nothing you can do about it. NOTHING!
<<Massive hiring with little to no oversight has led to extreme quality issues.>>
— Correct, same with police forces in many counties. Ironically, it’s the same problem with truck drivers recently, as evidenced by yet another non-criminal migrant driving an 80-ton semi the wrong way on the highway for miles. It’s on video.
Oh, look, just found another one, more recent: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/02/05/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-semi-truck-driver-who-killed-4-injured-others-indiana
I found accidentally while searching for the Indian who killed 4 more a couple of months ago.
Obviously nobody should tolerate inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants by the official authorities, yet nobody screams about the innocent victims.
— I could also talk about nurses and electricians with fake certificates, which are never checked (they are only translated). Meanwhile, certified Americans are left out. Europeans will tell you that in “rapid service quality deterioration” you have seen nothing yet. The elites will not be affected much, except those who still drive, or those who fly commercial (DEI pilots) or those whose houses are repaired by Mr. Shortcut Albanian or Mr. Patchwork African.
— Lets talk also about the thousands who died trapped in vans or abandoned in the desert or shot in the head, by the so-called “coyotes” in the last 20-25 years. Or the tens of thousands of missing children during that era. ICE was nowhere to be found back then. It seems everybody has forgotten those victims, because the issue is not the immigrants, it’s partisan politics and moral grandstanding. Of the cheapest kind.
Introducing Markwayne:
But Trump thought Noem was too self-promotional.
Ha Ha. You can’t make this stuff up.
His parents couldn’t decide between Mark and Wayne? Theme song from Deliverance plays …
First what in the hell is the shield of the americas.
Second. Repubs in congress are getting heat for trumps ice. Trump throws her under the bus. Like ive said before everyone in trumps orbit loses at some point.
Banished to Siberia, basically.
Oh if only. Looks like it might be something going after drug cartels or something. Thats what the google says anyway
You assert that there is a quota but the only evidence you showed was a statement that had the word goal. There is a big difference between a quota and a goal.
Bondi is next almost for sure
She has the Epstein files, hopefully he pisses her off enough to get her to release them. Unredacted in their entirety.
Not going to happen assuming she wants to live.
trump just jumped in a war in the middle east and is sending troops to Ecuador to try to remove the Epstein coverup from the media. He will do anything.
Speaking of Trump, latest headline is Trump says he must be involved in selecting Iran’s new leader, calls Khamenei’s son ‘unacceptable’.
I’ll reiterate my usual observation: at least the United States doesn’t interfere in democratic elections like Russia does.
clown show continue
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A MAGA Warrior, and former undefeated professional MMA fighter, Markwayne truly gets along well with people,
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I assume Noem couldn’t join ICE raids and punch people personally. So now we will have real fighter at the helm. ICE gestapo morale through the roof , Markwayne going to give some choke-hold training to team
Next should be Rubio. Listen to his current TV pronouncements. He’s as insane as his Trumpness. After that the Hedge-something-or-other guy. He’s crazier than mad king Ludwig II of Bavaria.
What’s with the “fired” proclamation?
Trump posted she “served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results”.
She can’t be a scapegoat if no wrongdoing is admitted or mentioned.
This merely qualifies as rearranging the deck chairs.
Good, but not sure about that replacement & i guess T will have to find Corey L another back-door director job.
Those blow job lips could only take her career so far.
I find her to be a grotesque lizard-person looking freak. I don’t understand the mental illness that drives MAGA women to do themselves up like a bad parody of trans women. No accounting for taste I guess.
Same thing as heavy metal in the 80’s
LMFAO ty that was the best!
Corey Lewandowski to ‘leave with’ Kristi Noem amid affair rumors He can have her! LOL
Courtesy of Punchbowl News, here is the exchange:
$220 million….is that a lot?
(But seriously, WTF?)
Does anyone talk about the 3,500 hundred people that had their lives saved by deporting violent criminals; 21% decrease in murder nationwide. Did anyone notice the murder rate is down? I bet it was cheaper to advertise to get out the thirty million illegals that Biden let in ($7 per illegal that Biden let in) than capture the illegals and send them out of the country. Should we talk about how Obama put Kids in Cages and then blamed the first Trump administration. For every sad story, is the flip side of policies and procedures to protect from drug trafficking, children trafficking, indentured servitude(slavery), extortion, and other crimes. Citizens have rights and everyone else has privileges.
The government is building ICE detention facilities for $240,000 per bed. Imagine if they used that money to help people struggling to buy their first home. Or any other good cause. Do you find that sum a wasteful amount? Just to house them. That doesn’t include ICE staff payroll, transportation, time value, etc.
Maybe if the leftist do gooders had not encouraged illegals into your county then there wouldn’t need to be so many facilities needed to clean up tge mess? And maybe they need to streamline the deportation process such that anyone determined to have no legal right to remain is express deported, do not pass go do not collect $200.
For those who step forward for self deportation give them a free ticket and a $1000 at the airport. No need for accomodation.
Thrown under the bus ahead of the midterms. Someone’s got to take the fall. Won’t be enough though.
1) My bet is that Trump indeed signed off on the ad campaign, but the underlings are supposed to commit seppuku when things go awry.
2) I also bet there are/were quotas. there almost always are metrics for achievement.
3) Rather than an all black and white scenario, was the kid indeed an “asylum petitioner” rather than someone who was an illegal entrant?
4) The blind man’s story and the person who needed dental attention indeed portray ICE as cruel and heartless, even though there are citizens who die every day under similar conditions.
5) She’ll now have the needed time for increased botox and collagen treatments.
6) She’ll get a high paying gig on one of the “news” networks mud wrestling with Brennan.
Re #4 – true.
Apparently some folks are unfamiliar with the US prison system.
Wow, CNBC talking heads worried about $100 oil. Tired of winning yet?
Oh, we’ll be blowing past $100.
MAGA just keeps on winning!!!
Oil $80 — Boom!
Staff being fired — Boom!
Just need Dow back above 50,000
(Bondi next please!)
Three star Mishelin award granted for celebratory reasons. I think Mish’s blog, albeit however big or small, made a difference with this matter.
Thank you Mish.
well, she’s gone. my preference would be Hegseth next even over Bondi. no way he ever fires the fascist Miller though.
Miller can only hide on a military base until Trump is out of office, 1052 days from today.
Miller tells Trump what to do more than the reverse
So let it be written (by Mish), so let it be done. I hope someone takes advantage of that c***’s new-found lack of Secret Service protection and gives her the doggie treatment.
Good riddance to bad rubbish; should be cleaning up after the dogs in a shelter. Get rid of Blondie Barbie, too, but follow-up on her shielding Epstein 15 years ago.