In the latest chapter of the slow-motion collapse of Trump’s inner circle, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — once treated like MAGA royalty and floated as a potential VP — is now hanging on by a thread while one of Trump’s most ruthless enforcers sharpens the blade.
Fresh reporting says Stephen Miller — the mastermind behind Trump’s harshest immigration crackdowns and the guy who acts like an unofficial co-president — is actively working to push Noem out. And, true to the trademark chaos of Trumpworld, it’s a messy blend of internal warfare, incompetence, and jaw-dropping mishandling of public money.
Here’s the centerpiece of the drama: Noem was handed an astonishing $45 billion in Republican-approved funding to build Trump’s sprawling network of immigration detention sites. Her mission was as simple as it was enormous — spend it, build it, make it happen quickly.
And yet… nothing. Not a single new facility. Not one. Forty-five billion dollars, and not even a ceremonial ribbon to cut.
Miller is reportedly furious. And he’s far from the only one.
Several GOP governors have supposedly called Trump directly to complain that Noem is fumbling FEMA aid and disaster relief just as badly as she fumbled her VP ambitions — all while racking up negative headlines and becoming a walking embarrassment for the administration.
Inside the West Wing, the mood is shifting. Staffers say the search for her replacement is already underway, the list of contenders is being refined, and Trump is “thinking about a change.” In Trump-speak, that usually means the moving boxes should already be on standby.
Noem, at least in public, is pretending everything is perfectly fine.
When a reporter in Tampa asked her about rumors that she might be replaced, she laughed it off, insisting, “No, I don’t have any indication of that. The President is fantastic. I’m proud every day to work for him.”
Pressed again on whether she expects to stay all four years, she gave the classic loyalist answer: “I will serve at the President’s pleasure.”
And the name floating to the top of the replacement shortlist? Glenn Youngkin — the recently unemployed governor of Virginia, who arrives without the bizarre scandals and self-inflicted disasters that have become Noem’s trademark.
The MAGA ecosystem is starting to cannibalize itself. And with Stephen Miller leading the purge, the turbulence is only just beginning.
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