Kristi Noem riled up White House officials by referring to meetings she led at the Department of Homeland Security as ācabinet meetings,ā according to a report.
Noem, dubbed āIce Barbieā for her love of cosplaying in uniform roles, seemed to be playing presidential dress-up by referring to internal DHS meetings with subagency heads by the same name as high-level gatherings between the commander-in-chief and top Cabinet officials.
Donald Trumpās aides viewed Noemās labeling of her DHS get-togethers as meetings of her ācabinetā as a troubling sign that the homeland security secretary was more focused on her own presidential ambitions than on advancing the administrationās message, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
Trump was also reportedly āannoyedā after Noem set aside $200 million from the departmentās budget to fund an ad campaignāin which she herself starredāwarning immigrants in the country illegally to āleave now.ā
The president asked White House staff where Noem had secured the funding for the ads, with insiders telling the Journal they believed the campaign was another signal she was laying the groundwork for a future presidential run.



Should start playing into it. Nothing would piss her boss off more than people treating someone else as his equal. Would probably fire her after the first news headline.