It couldn’t have come from a *cough* nicer lady. MS NOW’s ‘Morning Joe’ has noticed a trend, which generally means it’s going to go up the ladder and get to Trump’s ears. They’re generally reliable. So, it could reach Trump sooner than later, and he might, although the chances are minuscule, finally *do* something about her. Well, we can hope. With gratitude to Raw Story:
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was accused of “lying about her lies” on Monday morning as Donald trump was warned that she has become a huge drag on his approval numbers. Following a weekend where the embattled Noem hit the talk show circuit and insisted the shooting of 37-year-old Minnesota mother Renee Good by an ICE agent was completely justified, and that she personally has been correct on the details since day one, the co-hosts of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” claimed she has become a liability for the president.
After sharing clips of Noem’s notorious “cowboy hat” press conference and appearances on Fox News and CNN over the weekend, co-host Mika Brzezinski pointed out that she is sending even more agents into Minneapolis — which will only exacerbate the chaos. Trump was warned that she has become a huge drag on his approval numbers.
Okayyyy. Trump was warned. Can they prove it? Because it doesn’t seem to have shown up in the news yet, except for them. She is a drag on the numbers, but has this truly made it up to Trump? If so, Trump may double down and protect her, or he may move her to a less public-facing job, but we seriously doubt he’ll kick her off the boat. After all, he can’t admit that he made a mistake. But if and until something happens, we don’t know what the orange-faced child will do.
That led co-host Joe Scarborough to offer, “You go back to her cowboy hat press conference, everything she said was a lie. Absolutely everything. And while we’re looking at the head of DHS, a couple of things for President Trump to keep in mind while looking at the person who is running this agency into the ground and running his numbers down. On the issue of immigration approval of Kristi Noem, ICE itself, has plummeted 30 percentage points since she took control.” After adding, “It’s a YouGov poll and more than half of Americans, 54 percent, say ICE’s tactics are too extreme, and only about 25% support the tactics.“
Heh. It still hasn’t been a full year of Trump 2.0, albeit only a few days shy of it. This has been a disaster since Day 1, because we all remember what the first thing he did was, and they *still* aren’t patriots, but rioters. Yes, that still ‘sticks in my craw’. It’s been a year of waking up to think, “Okay, what’s gone wrong this time?” because a LOT has gone wrong. To close:
He suggested, “How ironic that we see all of these fat, out-of-shape people that they push through. Right? And in how long, instead of five months, they have these shortened training sessions. So they go out there, and they’re ill-equipped to handle what professional law enforcement officers, the NYPD, the LAPD, or any of our law enforcement agencies are equipped to do.” “And suddenly tragedy is unfolding on the streets, he pointed out. “But we all predicted this was going to happen. We all said, these guys are untrained, they’re out of shape, they don’t know the basics of law enforcement — tragedy is going to strike. And sure enough, it’s striking. An ICE’s numbers are plummeting.”
Today, they hauled a disabled person out of the window of her car while she was screaming that she was disabled. Why does it feel like women are getting more abused than men? Maybe we hear less about the men? Tragedy is striking, all right, and it’s not just the color of anyone’s skin anymore. It’s whoever they feel like assaulting. And that’s damn depressing.
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