Name: Enten: Trump firing Noem was the 'politically popular' move
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We said there was a proximate cause there, apparently this ad campaign.

But there were some other things going on, right?

Yeah, there were a lot of other things going on.

She was a political nightmare for the President of the United States.

Overall last month, Quinnipiac University found the majority of Americans, 58%, wanted her to be.

Among independents, you can see it right here.

62% of independents, we're talking more than three in five independents, wanted to kick her to the curb.

So Donald Trump here making the politically popular move because Americans were, simply put, sick of Kristi Noem.

This was well before this testimony that was so controversial.

All right, how about her approval rating?

Look, the idea that Kristi Noem is unpopular is not a new phenomenon.

It's one that has dated all the way back to the beginning of Trump's second term.

Ok. Kristi Noem's net popularity rating during Donald Trump's term.

None of the polls did she have a positive net approval rating in all of the polls.

She was underwater, swimming in the deep blue sea.

She had a negative net popularity rating in every single poll conducted during Donald Trump's second term.

Simply put, Americans did not like the job that she was doing as DHS secretary.

And recently, the clear majority of Americans, about 3 and 5, wanted her kicked to the curb, fired, as I said, by Donald Trump.

So again, Trump doing what the American people wanted him to do.

You talk about her job as Secretary of Homeland Security.

The immigration efforts that the President has been pushing, in theory, largely fall under Homeland Security's umbrella.

How has that effort been greeted by the American people lately?

Yeah, this idea that Donald Trump could somehow contain Kristi Noem to just, you know, her own little part of the world.

Kristi was hurting Donald Trump in office on his key, one of his key top issues that got him elected President of the United States.

I mean, just take a look at Trump's net approval rating on immigration.

You go back a little bit over a year ago.

But again, down he goes in large part because Kristi Noem's efforts.

Minus 17 points on the net approval rating on a key issue for Donald Trump, one that got him elected to a second term.

And among independents, he went from plus three net approval on immigration all the way down to minus 30 points.

On a key issue that independents had trusted Donald Trump on over Kamala Harris and Kristi Noem's efforts, simply put, killed crushed Donald Trump on such a key issue for him.

The president's going to nominate Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.

If he is confirmed, that means there will be an open Senate seat in Oklahoma.

It will be filled for a time being, but it will be on the ballot in November.

What are the chances that Republicans hold that seat?

Yeah, I think the best part of Trump nominating Mark Wayne Mullen for this seat is, you know, if you nominated somebody from, let's say, a purple state, there might be the chance the Republicans could lose that race.

Prediction markets chance of GOP wins the Oklahoma Senate race in 2026.

David Boren was the last Democrat elected from Oklahoma, and that was all the way back in 1990.

Oklahoma is a red state and will continue to be red.

Noem has been on thin ice after multiple issues, including, of course, the shooting deaths of two U.S.

citizens during immigration crackdowns in Minneapolis.

But sources say the final straw was her testimony this week on Capitol Hill.

Senator John Kennedy says the president was, quote, pissed after Noem testified that he approved a $220 million Homeland Security ad campaign that placed her front and center.

CNN's Kevin Liptak is following all the details from the White House.

What are you learning about how the White House has seen her performance there?

And that one issue that really got them riled up?

Apparently, yeah, there was this one issue that seemed to sort of shove her into the abyss in a lot of ways.

But in other ways, this had been building for months and months.

You know, her demise was something of an open question at the White House.

They really viewed that situation in Minneapolis that ultimately, ultimately led to the deaths of two American citizens on the streets as a leadership failure.

There were power clashes with the heads of CBP and ice.

There were some serious questions about her spending, including on a luxury jet with a full bedroom that the DHS claimed was going to be used for deportations.

As one administration official put it yesterday, Christie's drama sadly overshadowed and distracted from the administration's extremely popular immigration agenda, which I think is something of an understatement.

There was a lot of anger, anger and frustration at how she had handled so much of her job.

You know, the catalyst was this sort of humiliating appearance on Capitol Hill when she was repeatedly questioned about that $200 million plus ad campaign that put her at the very center.

She claimed that the President was aware and in fact had approved of these ads.

The President said he had nothing to do with it or at least had no idea that they were spending the budget of a Marvel movie on these television advertisements.

You know, Kristi Noem is now the first cabinet official to be dismissed in the President's second term.

He had been making this concerted effort to try and avoid the drama that engulfed his first presidency.

And he did find her a landing pad, which is this previously nonexistent job as special envoy to the Southern Shield, which is this new security initiative for the Western Hemisphere.

People he dismissed and he has this experience from his first term, often go out and give interviews or write books that portray him in a negative light.

So he does seem aware that finding a place for them to land is an imperative.

Now, the man he is replacing her with is the Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.

The President has praised his appearances on television.

Mullen said yesterday that there would be the opportunity to build off her successes, but, quote, also the opportunity to build, build off things that maybe didn't go as planned.