While social media was lighting up with reactions to President Trump’s Truth Social firing of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, she was on stage speaking to local law enforcement. She did not mention her firing, and some wondered if she was even aware of it; Fox News later reported that Trump had called her shortly before making his post announcing she was being replaced. Standing before a wall of flags at the Sergeant Benevolent Association Major Cities Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Noem fielded questions and/or obsequious flattery from assembled officials. At one point, she mentioned an upcoming event appearance she has with Trump; it’s unclear whether she will attend as DHS secretary or in her new, fantastical sounding role: Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas. Trump said he’d swap in Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) “effective March 31, 2026.” It’s unclear how that’ll work, too, since DHS secretary is subject to Senate confirmation. “We’ll have a big agreement that I’ll be there with him on Saturday with the Department of War and the Department of State on how we’re going to go at the drug cartels and drug trafficking in the entire Western Hemisp
