Noem fell for GOP senator’s 'trap' — and now Trump is furious

Kristi Noem might have stepped into a "trap" during her recent Senate hearing as reports suggest Donald Trump is looking to fire her, but according to some on social media, her prospective replacement could be far "worse."

On Thursday, the conservative National Review reported that Trump was "furious" with Noem over her handling of questions about a taxpayer-funded ad campaign while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, and echoed other reports that the president is potentially planning to fire her. Noem was pressed by GOP Sen. John Kennedy as to whether or not Trump approved the $220 million campaign, to which the Homeland Security secretary said that he had.

"It’s just hard for me to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, ‘Mr. President, here’s some ads I’ve cut, and I’m going to spend $220 million running them,’ that he would have agreed to that,” Kennedy said.

As a result of those answers, Trump has privately begun suggesting that he is open to finally getting rid of Noem after months of controversy. Reactions to this report have emerged across social media, with senior CNN political reporter Aaron Blake suggesting that Noem fell for a trap set by Kennedy.

"John Kennedy was basically laying a bunch of traps around Noem and waiting for her to walk into one," Blake posted to X. "Judging by this report, it worked."

"Seems the questioning from Noem’s [Senate Judiciary Committee] hearing that most hurt her standing with the president came not from a Democrat but from a Republican," congressional reporter Benjamin S. Weiss added in his own post.

"It remains unclear whether Trump, known for openly floating personnel changes in private conversations with allies, will follow through on the ouster," Audrey Fahlberg, author of the report from National Review, posted to X after sharing the story. "Trump has so far resisted any high-profile Cabinet reshuffles during his second term, and insisted in early February that he had no plans to remove Noem from her post following her handing of the federal officer-involved fatal shootings in Minneapolis earlier this year."

According to National Review, Trump is reportedly considering staunch MAGA ally and Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin as a replacement for Noem at the head of DHS. According to Democratic strategist and MS NOW contributor Max Burns, this would hardly be much of an improvement.

"Firing Noem to hire Markwayne Mullin is the definition of going from bad to worse," Burns wrote in a post to X.

"Ah so it looks like Markwayne's embarrassing brown nosing may pay dividends," Daily Kos reporter Emily C. Singer wrote in her post reacting to the news.

"If you want someone who won’t say something embarrassing when they get a tough question, this is an… interesting… backup," Benjy Sarlin, senior political editor for Vox, posted in reaction to the news about Mullin.

"Oh Lord. Dumb and Dumber Part III," podcaster Reed Galen wrote in a post to X.

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