Michelle Hackman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But, you know, it's not a cabinet position.
It's also, you know, something that basically is redundant because we have ambassadors all over Latin America.
And, you know, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, Latin America is sort of his personal sweet spot.
Mark Wayne Mullen is a senator from Oklahoma.
This guy, Ryan, is a former MMA fighter, and fighting seems to be sort of the way that he approaches his current job, and I think that's how we should expect him to come into this new one.
I think that Mark Wayne Mullen, you know, he is someone who doesn't shy away from confrontation.
You know, he's a former professional fighter.
I think he is going to sort of take a tough macho man approach to immigration enforcement, but it may not be as showboaty as what we have witnessed over the last year.
We have been reporting on Kristi Noem's foibles for so long, and over and over we were told, you know, Trump said that he picked the perfect cabinet and he doesn't want to contradict himself.
And so the fact that Kristi Noem became the first person to get fired is pretty notable.
There gets to a point where it becomes too much for him.
And especially if someone is seen as sort of using a position that he gives them to serve themselves, to enrich themselves.
That's when Trump really doesn't like it.
And I think Kristi Noem unfortunately crossed that line.
He's been under pressure from his top advisers, from immigration hawks, from people at DHS for months and months to get rid of Noem.
And we're only now seeing him cave to that pressure.
There has been frustration growing with Kristi Noem for months.
It all started, I would say, about a year ago when these ads of Noem started appearing on places like Fox News.
They were prominent, glossy ads of her.
They looked like campaign ads of her saying, you know, encouraging people to self-deport.