Kristi Noem doesn’t seem to be doing much at her new fake job running “Shield of the Americas”:
Kristi Noem might be fired soon from her latest position within the Trump administration.
The former Homeland Security chief has barely put in a lick of work at her new government job, sparking questions about Noem’s ongoing tenure within the Trump administration, State Department officials told the Daily Mail.
…So far, the bloc has not achieved much under Noem’s stewardship.
…Noem, meanwhile, took just one meeting last week via teleconference, senior State Department officials told the British gossip tabloid.
“This post was intended as a soft landing so it didn’t look like Noem was immediately being fired,” one State Department insider told the Mail. “But no one really thinks she should have this job. The State Department was not happy to have her here and the understanding is that she’s not going to be here for much longer” [Ellie Quinlan Houghtailing, “Kristi Noem’s New Job Is Going About as Well as You’d Expect,” The New Republic via Yahoo News, 2026.04.10].
You’d think Noem would be getting lots of work done with the big entourage she felt entitled to bring with her to her new office:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is bringing 10 staffers of hers over to the State Department, who will report to her in her capacity as special envoy for The Shield of the Americas – Western Hemisphere, an administration official told POLITICO’s Daniel Lippman. The DHS staffers moving departments are Joe Guy, Troup Hemenway, Steven Munoz, Giovanna Cinelli, Joseph Mazzara, Josh King, Zach Watson, Octavian Miller, Jayden Bies and Josh Sedore [Eli Okun and Makayla Gray, “Trump’s Dire Strait,” Politico, 2026.03.20].
But the professionals at the State Department don’t like Noem’s toadies any more than they like the queen lizard. State has already booted four of her crew:
At least four officials who followed Noem from DHS to the brand-new security coalition have been placed on administrative leave, unnamed sources told the Mail Thursday. The outbound officials include former deputy chief of staff Troup Hemenway, ex-deputy general counsel Giovanna Cinelli, and junior staffers Josh King and Octavian Miller [Houghtailing, 2026.04.10].
The New York Post says State purged Hemenway, King, and Miller because of their ties to Noem’s close chum Corey Lewandowski:
“They didn’t want any people that would be tentacles for Lewandowski,” the source said.
Lewandowski was an unpaid special government employee at DHS, but would introduce himself as Noem’s chief of staff and reportedly wielded major power within the agency.
The source said officials at Foggy Bottom weren’t keen to revisit the drama that plagued the married former South Dakota governor’s tenure at DHS, including her alleged years-long dalliance with Lewandowski and her controversial $220 million TV ads [Geoff Earle and Anna Young, “Kristi Noem’s Loyal Staffers Axed After Following Scandal-Ridden Boss to New Gig: ‘You’re Obviously Not Welcome’,” New York Post, updated 2026.04.10].
John “Troup” Calhoun Hemenway is a 20-something Project 2025 minion. Octavian Miller is another young Heritage Foundation Stepford child who coordinated Noem’s DHS briefing book. Giovanna Cinelli hosted a fundraiser for Noem in McLean, Virginia in December 2021. Joshua King is a “Disciple of Jesus” and 2024 campaign organizer for Trump in Pennsylvania who peddled the fallacy that the 2020 election was rigged. None of the four leap out as experienced security experts or diplomats. But neither does Kristi Noem, who may soon make America greater by following them to the unemployment line.
All good news. The best news of the day is Orban got trounced. Illiberalism is on the way out magas. See you in November.
Fantastic.
Kristi Noem the Condom of the Americas. Her boyfriend Lewandowski is job hunting, will he collect unemployment? He is well known, will he ditch the Noem or will they live happily ever after?
It seems “ironic” that Secretary Noem was reassigned to a position of helping the group she just got reassigned for being brutal to. Most of her territory as the “New Sheriff” speaks Spanish. That seems ironic and almost comical that USA’s most German American fundamentalist President had to reposition another German American fundamentalist for being too “Nazi-like” for said President’s image.
I keep hoping that each new boondoggle will lead to her just quietly going away, but the world has taught me that there is still money to be made by people who have no shame and some platform to scream from. Carnival barkers rule the world.
I should have waited. Elon Musk said “Soros organization has taken over Hungary” Now we know what happened. Soros is everywhere. You think I do this for free?
Kristi has been living on adrenalin or something since wracking up 100 something(?) speeding ticketsRepublican’s merely elect incompetent politicians so the GOP (Rush Limbaugh/Rupert Murdoch) can toilet train them. Simple. Ronald Reagan. GW Bush. Mike Rounds. Dusty/Maria Butina. Must I go on? Cowboy mentality.
All I can ask is WTF is John Thune doing while Speaker Johnson just enables the trump mob? His dad flew WWII fighter planes and Geo McGovern flew bombers, for Christ sake! Thune was educated in a religious college. My family homesteaded south of Murdo. Ran the bank. Ranched. Built roads, dams and bridges.
How can Thune stand by and watch Putin’s Puppet make a mockery of the USA?? Is he waiting , transactionally, for Trump’s mug to get chiseled over the four faces? To murder more people?
Republicans infamously like to threaten nuclear annihilation. Are we still safer w/Trump at the helm, John? John?
Mark, I’m still waiting for my Soros checks from the 1970s…
Ears in DC say SD’s reputation is “hog waller” material. How embarrassing for the good voters and how telling for the rest of the SD voters. Kristi and her husband are “rurally discomfiting” but John Thune is the newest super villain of the Republican party for not putting the filibuster under the bus and passing the SAVE AMERICA FIRST act. Thune’s replacement is being chosen. Kristi’s taking Babbel to learn Espanol.