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CA NY Open Politics navigation US News US News Metro Long Island Politics World News US News Metro Long Island Politics World News Search Search trending now in US News Skip to main content Trump fires Kristi Noem in first cabinet shakeup of second term... The moment at Kristi Noem's Senate hearing that likely got her... Trump says Kristi Noem lied to Congress about getting his... Noem grilled on 'sexual relations' with Lewandowski — at House... Minn. man who tried to bribe juror in $250M welfare fraud scandal... Democrat Senate candidate's bizarre race rant earns the GOP's... Kristi Noem fired minutes before planned speaking engagement:... Pervy Louisiana mayor shouted for her son to fight victim after... Politics exclusive What it was really like when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem awkwardly took the stage after Trump fired her By Georgia Worrell Published March 5, 2026, 5:36 p.m. ET NASHVILLE — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem seemed deflated and shied away from mentioning President Trump’s name directly when she took the stage at a police sergeant’s conference moments after she was publicly fired Thursday, attendees told The Post.
“She was her normal self, except she maybe sounded a little less energetic than usual,” said one attendee who was in the room while Noem, 54, delivered the remarks at the Sergeant Benevolent Association Major Cities Conference.
“But she also didn’t mention Trump’s name very many times — she just referred to the ‘administration’ – normally I think she says his name more,” the woman noted.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem speaking at the Sergeant Benevolent Association conference in Nashville moments after President Trump announced he is firing her on March 5, 2026. via REUTERS Trump said he is naming Noem his Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas. via REUTERS Everyone at the conference had seen the news before Noem went on stage. Trump announced on Truth Social that Noem would be replaced as Homeland Security Secretary by Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) at the end of the month.
One New York State Police trooper noted that several other attendees wondered “if she would even show up.”
Still, he didn’t think the news was negative for Noem, as her new gig will be a “promotion,” he speculated.
“I didn’t feel like, ‘Oh no, this poor woman.’ It didn’t even seem like that big of news to me. She’s just getting transferred – it’s a promotion. So I was wondering if she was going to say something about it but I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,” he said.
Previous 1 of 17 Next Kristi Noem trains with the Maritime Security Response Team West during a visit to Coast Guard Cutter Elm, in San Diego, CA, March 16, 2025. U.S. Coast Guard District 11 Noem conducts a firefighting simulation at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, in Kodiak, Alaska, March 17, 2025.DHS photo by Mikaela McGee Advertisement Noem boards the US Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba for a meeting on drug interdiction on June 24, 2025 in Panama City.POOL/AFP via Getty Images Kristi Noem rides on the USCG MSRT Small Boat in South Bay, San Diego, California, March 16, 2025.DHS photo by Tia Dufour Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) as prisoners stand, looking out from a cell, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025.POOL/AFP via Getty Images Advertisement DHS Secretary Kristi Noem seen riding a horse in front of Mount Rushmore for a DHS ad on Oct. 2, 2025.DHS photo by Tia Dufour Noem riding an ATV near the border wall in Nogales, Arizona on March 15, 2026.POOL/AFP via Getty Images Noem throwing a coin in Rome’s Trevi Fountain on May 23, 2025.Getty Images Advertisement Noem riding a camel during a trip to Qal’at al-Bahrain Fort in Bahrain on May 25, 2025.Getty Images Noem piloting a boat in Manama, Bahrain on May 25, 2025.Getty Images Noem dancing during a trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 29, 2025.Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images Advertisement Noem riding a horse on a beach with Ecuador President Daniel Noboa in Manta, Ecuador on Nov. 5, 2025.Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images Advertisement “It was like nothing had changed,” he said of her speech. “Even if she had seen it though, it’s not like it’s bad news for her.”
Trump noted that Noem would become Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, a new position overseeing security in the Western Hemisphere.
Another NY law enforcement officer said he took Noem noted she was going to meet President Trump on Saturday – which the president also wrote in the X post – as acknowledgement of her reassignment.
“She said she was going to meet with Trump on Saturday during her speech, so I assume that’s to talk about the transfer and all that,” he said.
