Trump couldn’t have chosen better when he tapped Kristi Noem to run the Department of Homeland Security. They needed someone with zero morals, a psychopathic disregard for human life, and bovine stupidity so extreme that she simply doesn’t realize how stupid she actually is.
You can imagine the scene, with Trump weighing up the best candidates, but figuring there’s nobody that could beat the lunatic who boasted about executing her pet dog in a gravel pit.
Anyway, those Noem smarts were on full display last night when she was being quizzed about her moronic goons executing innocent mother-of-three Renee Nicole Good:
Noem: We can't trust our government anymore.
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 11, 2026
Bash: You are the government.
Noem: Yes, that’s what I’m saying
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CNN: “You remember a time when Republicans were very careful about and worried about government?
Noem: “We can’t trust the government anymore.”
CNN: “Y… you are the government.”
Noem: “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.”
I mean, I guess she’s not wrong. The Trump government lies brazenly to Americans’ faces literally every day, demanding that they don’t believe their own eyes and ears about what they can see and hear. We shouldn’t trust them at all!
But it’s a bit rich for Kristi Noem herself to be giving us this sage advice. Thanks, but no thanks, Kristi, we’re way ahead on not trusting you already.
Not much going on up there huh?
It should be underlined that this is about the baseline level of intelligence for Trump’s flunkies. These aren’t people selected for their quick-thinking, organizational skills and competence, they’re picked because they’ll do what they’re told with a minimum of independent thought, and because they’re too brain-dead to critically appraise their actions.
Or, to put it another way, these people are simply too stupid to feel guilty about what they’re doing. There may come a day when they’re dragged into court to answer for trampling over Americans’ constitutional rights, but even with every detail of their crimes laid out in front of them, they still won’t get it.
Nobody said this better than Hannah Arendt when writing about Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust. In words that could just as easily apply to Noem, she said:
“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.”
Who knows, maybe one day Eichmann and Noem will have something else in common?
