Trump Floats Firing Kristi Noem in Fuming Call With GOP Allies After Bruising Hearings: Report

[BumRushDaShow]

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Source: MEDIAite

Mar 5th, 2026, 7:37 am


President Donald Trump privately asked Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill whether he should fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after bruising congressional hearings, multiple GOP figures who spoke with the president told Punchbowl News on Thursday.

The conversations reportedly came after Noem testified before Senate and House Judiciary panels this week, where she faced hostile questioning over the administration’s immigration crackdown and a controversial government-funded advertising campaign.

Trump was allegedly angered in particular by Noem’s exchange with Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), who pressed her on whether the president had personally approved a $220 million advertising effort that prominently featured the DHS secretary. Kennedy repeatedly questioned whether Trump had personally approved the campaign.

Kennedy then warned the campaign risked putting Trump “in a terribly awkward spot.” He also grilled Noem on why the advertising contract went to a firm run by the husband of her former DHS spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-floats-firing-kristi-noem-in-fuming-call-with-gop-allies-after-bruising-hearings-report/

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Link to Punchbowl News REPORT - Trump mulls Noem firing

[Prairie Gates]

1. Trump realizes that Noem and Lewandowski skimmed the $220 million without giving him a taste

He's like Big Paulie catching on that he's getting cut out on the Pittsburgh connection.

[Bluetus]

7. "Puffery ads and fraudulent contracts" are my job !

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. It's money tsf could have stolen himself!

That's an unforgivable offense.

[Prairie Gates]

22. Unforgiveable!

[NoSheep]

23. I didn't think I could be amused today but...

[Chasstev365]

2. If she is no longer working in the government, can Blue ICE States sue her?

[riversedge]

3. 'WH decides Noem too untrainable and........

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Wicked Blue]

4. Oh please do!

She makes me vomit.

[FakeNoose]

5. She was hired as a distraction IMHO

Chump only hired Kristi Noem intending to eventually fire her. Meanwhile she provides cover for him, as long as she lasts.

[Nasruddin]

6. Not likely

The Gnome already publicly said what she did was at His Excellency's request, eg after the Minneapolis rampage:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/noem-says-everything-ve-done-225051871.html]
She's hinting pretty clearly that she has the receipts and will talk, if anything comes back on her.

This would make for a very entertaining campaign season.

So, I think the Gnome gets whatever she wants at least until late Nov 2026.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. That meant taking her word for it that she had the dirt, and would talk

She's just as much a stranger to truth as The Rapist.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. And it just happened

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143627170

She was already on the short shit-list to go bye bye and she drew the short straw.

[riversedge]

8. Other Republicans have warned Trump that it would be a bad idea to fire Noem in the middle of the now 19-day DHS shutdow

...........Other Republicans have warned Trump that it would be a bad idea to fire Noem in the middle of the now 19-day DHS shutdown, arguing it would embolden Democrats and strengthen their negotiating position as they demand an ICE overhaul.

https://punchbowl.news/article/border/immigration/is-noem-done/

[popsdenver]

12. It should be painfully obvious by now

That Trump doesn't give a shit, and is extremely impulsive, and thinks no further than the end of his nose......
He takes great joy in creating chaos everywhere around him 24/7/365......and never has to suffer or be held responsible......

[mwmisses4289]

16. He will probably do it any way, since he knows more and is smarter that everybody else.

Besides she's broken at least two cardinal rules of this admin:
1. Don't do anything to take attention away from t
and
2. Don't do anything to make t look bad.
I will be surprised if she makes through next week.

[chowder66]

9. He has to ask them. MEDIA! FOCUS ON THE REPUBLICANS (who support the ass).

He's upset about being tied to money mismanagement but not her goons kidnapping, abuse or murdering human beings.

How very Trump of him.

[popsdenver]

13. He is just pissed

that SHE is attracting all of the attention that HE feels he should getting, and is not giving any kind of mandated financial kick back to him (Or his Spawn, including SIL Jared)

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. He should fire the person who hired her, too!

Oh wait....

[progressoid]

14. Brilliant Strategery. Start a war and then fire your Homeland Security Secretary.

[sakabatou]

15. It's one giant shitshow

[SamuelTheThird]

17. He'll probably fire her

In his addled head, it will be a distraction from the war

[AmandaRuth]

18. rumors are running wild on the facebooks that she

has indeed been fired. see ya..

[BumRushDaShow]

21. No longer a rumor

a done deal!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143627170

[PatSeg]

24. Buh-bye Kristi

[Omaha Steve]

25. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

DUPE of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143627085

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