Well, if she succeeded in anything, it was inducing a lot of eye rolls.
Last week, former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem received a whole lot of mockery for a bonkers boast she posted on election night.
As the midterm results began to trickle in Tuesday evening, Noem said she agreed with Fox Business host and former Trump economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, who claimed the day before the election that the economy was “booming” and that Republicans would retain control of the Senate. He was wrong, but it didn’t stop Noem from using his delusions to express her own.
“Larry Kudlow is correct. We were too successful the first year of the Trump administration,” Noem posted at 9:25 p.m. Tuesday.
Considering that Noem was fired in March after a string of scandals, critics on X were quick to burst her bubble.
And it seems that Fox News host Trey Gowdy was also grossed out by Noem’s brag, and devoted some time on the most recent episode of his show “Sunday Night in America” to offer Noem a brutal reality check.
“She said she was too successful at doing her job. Calling dead Americans domestic terrorists before the investigation even commenced is not too much success,” Gowdy said, referring to Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the U.S. citizens killed by federal immigration agents in Minnesota.
But Gowdy was by no means done.
“It is a perceived lack of empathy, which in turn motivates voters to then go send a message,” he continued.
“You can enforce the law and preserve your humanity,” Gowdy concluded.
Exit polls across 45 key states conducted by NBC News, and a group of other news organizations, showed that 60% of voters disapproved of how ICE was handling their job, with 58% of respondents saying the Trump administration’s actions on immigration enforcement have gone too far.
And if what happened to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s roadside memorial was any indication of what folks in a swing state like Texas thought about ICE, things were not looking good for Republicans on the immigration front leading up to the midterms. The memorial for Salgado Araujo — a father of three and longtime Houston resident who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in his van in July — was plastered in “I Voted” stickers even before Tuesday’s elections as a rallying call against the GOP.