Jerjade Sexton and Nick Houseman dissect Christy Noem's firing from Homeland Security, a move Trump hailed as a "delight" after she admitted pre-approving a $220 million TV ad campaign featuring herself. They criticize her "tricked-out plane" lifestyle and the deployment of Tom Homan to Minnesota following the murders of Renee Good and Alex Preddy, labeling the ad effort a propaganda unit. While Trump replaces her with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, whom they mock as unintelligent, the hosts argue the dismissal stems purely from optics regarding her lavish spending rather than policy failures, ultimately framing Noem's tenure as a humiliating spectacle for the administration. [Automatically generated summary]
Welcome to the weekender edition of the Muck Greg podcast.
I'm Jerjade Sexton.
Here with Nick Houseman.
Nick, we got so much shit to talk about that's terrible in terms of the war, which hasn't even been going on for a week now.
But guess what?
We got a little bit of a treat.
We got a little bit of a treat before we get to it.
We got some enjoyment to have before we get to the war.
Maybe a little appetizer, if you will.
I'm so looking forward to that.
This is one of those times you and I talk often about how we have a show in mind and then something happens and then we have to cover it.
And most of the time, it's an awful thing that makes you question morality and the nature of the universe.
And in this case, it's a delight.
It is.
It is.
I cannot wait to talk more about the misfortunes, I suppose, of a certain cabinet member of the Trump administration.
Shad and Freuda is lovely.
It really, you don't want it all the time.
It'll corrode the soul.
Yeah.
They say so.
Sometimes.
Well, everybody, like I said, we're going to cover all of the things that are happening with the war that really aren't being discussed anywhere else.
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And you're already listening to the preview.
And I got to tell you, it is a full docket today in terms of stories behind the stories that nobody else is talking about.
But Nick, let's start with something very, very lovely.
Just a little bit ago, I would say about 40 minutes ago before we started recording this podcast, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social, which, you know, that's the way the president should be doing these things, that he is going to move Christy Noam to the special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, which a new initiative.
I'm impressed.
I would say it's very much like, you know, a big farm upstate where Christy Noam can run around and have fun with the rest of the dogs, that she is leaving her post as secretary of Department of Homeland Security, and she is being replaced by stone cold fucking moron Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.
Also, Nick, in the middle of all of this, Christy Noam was giving a speech to a bunch of cops.
It's unclear if anybody told her before she got on stage or while she was giving the speech if she was informed that she had been fired.
She talked a lot about future plans and didn't really make any statements about leaving the agency.
I got to say, though, it warms the cockles of the heart to see pieces of shit like Christy Noam absolutely humiliated like this.
Yeah, I'm kind of mad that he beat me to the characterization of Mark Wayne Mullen, but maybe we'll get to him in a minute anyway.
But man, she appeared in front of Congress this week.
I saw reporting that indicated that Mike Johnson, of all people, knew that there was going to be a big change in DHS.
And so that seems to me to indicate it was whispered around.
But the way this all played out, it does feel like very much Seed of the Pants decision.
And it kind of centers on her performance in front of Congress this week.
I got to tell you, the Democrat congresspeople who were grilling her really served it up.
I mean, and she didn't seem to have much to go about.
A nice change from what we saw with Pam Bondi, who was fighting back and all this stuff.
Noam didn't really have much answer.
I mean, I don't know if you saw it, but they were, they had pictures of what the plane looks like that she was using and how, I mean, this is a tricked-out plane with a bed in there for, you know, sleeping might be one of the uses that she was using.
For reasons, allegedly.
Yes.
And it was like, you know, maybe, maybe there's a return to some notion because even the Republican senators were grilling her a little bit on the, what should we say, the level of the lifestyle that she's accustomed to in this job, which seemed to be a little over the top.
So yeah, it was rough.
It was, it was brutal, a terrible week.
Maybe one of the worst weeks I can remember for a cabinet member.
And so, so glad, so sorry to see it go.
Yeah.
Listen, we are, the McCrack podcast is the number one podcast for MAGA.
They love us.
They can't get enough of us.
Most of our audience members are rabid MAGA supporters and Trump diehards.
Most of them are listening to this right now with their Donald Trump fat head on the wall.
As a public human service to you, let me offer this up.
You will debase yourself for Donald Trump.
You will commit crimes for Donald Trump.
You will create a fascist paramilitary secret police in the United States of America.
You will have the murders of Americans on your record.
It will be in your bio when you die.
You will create concentration camps.
You will go to concentration camps around the world and take videos of your dumb ass talking in front of prisoners who are being abused.
And guess what?
He will crush you the moment that he thinks you have embarrassed him, the moment that he doesn't have a need for you anymore.
He will do this to you, and it does not matter what happens.
Well, like you said, here is the actual moment, I believe, that Trump made his faithful decision on Christy Noam's fate.
Here it is in her in front of the Senate.
And you're saying that you're testifying that President Trump approved this ahead of time.
So I understand.
We had conversations about making sure that we were telling people.
No, man.
I'm asking you sorry to interrupt.
But the president approved ahead of time, you're spending $220 million running TV ads across the country on which you were featured prominently.
Yes, sir.
We went through the legal processes.
Did it correctly?
Yes.
He did.
Yes.
Okay.
And there it is.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And by the way, for those who don't know, she had created a Department of Homeland Security ad campaign that featured her as the main protagonist that cost over $200 million, which was just a boondoggle.
Of course it was.
And here she is leading it back to Donald Trump.
Yes, absolutely.
And that was the key.
I think it was that she was featured and that she spent, you know, she probably could have spent 100 million or something to make this happen, but not 200 million.
And the fact that, yeah, she was forced to, I suppose, admit that, yes, Trump, there's no question she had a discussion with Trump and Trump said, yeah, we got to get it out there, hire a film crew, do the whole thing.
I mean, isn't, wasn't there evidence that some of these things that they were doing with ICE were simply for the purpose of filming it to get this footage?
Oh, for sure.
No, they, they, basically, she had created an entire propaganda unit that was taking all of this brutality and oppression and turning it into, and I mean, you can't argue with the results, Nick.
I mean, everybody fucking hates them.
They, they're the, like, they're, they're the scum of the earth.
They couldn't walk down the street without being spit on.
But I do also want to point something out.
In two instances now, back when Renee Good and Alex Preddy were murdered, you'll notice that Tom Homan was sent in to take over operations in Minnesota.
Now, Mark Wayne Mullen is coming in to take over DHS as she's being fired.
Man, it's pretty bad when the two guys who are sent in to clean up your mess, their collective intelligence would not be enough to operate an elevator.
Like the absolute disdain that he currently has for her, the ick that Trump got for her in the middle of all of this.
And why, Nick?
Because he went ahead and she brought that shit to his doorstep.
And on top of that, he wants the people being murdered off camera.
He doesn't want Americans being murdered on camera.
As long as it's not being captured, it's totally fine.
The problem was that she did what he wanted her to do.
She just didn't do it with enough, you know, sort of like, how do I put this?
Bullshit chicanery.
I guess, but like, you know, those murders happened long enough ago and nothing had happened to her until now.
I'm not sure I'm making the connection too much with that in terms of the reason.
He was talking back then about how he was tired of her.
It just so happens that these hearings.
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And by the way, look what happens when you actually show up and do your job and grill somebody.
Like, and what does Trump care about?
He cares about the optics of it and whether or not he's being embarrassed and how people are performing on TV.
And that's how the acts finally came down.
Luckily, Mark Wayne Mullen is here.
I hope he's able to tie his shoes as he goes to the office in the morning.
But, you know, the dumbest motherfucker, maybe this side of Tommy Tuberville.
Like, I mean, that's saying something.
Yeah.
And you don't have to watch him for very long to realize that there's a reasoning gap here.
He doesn't seem to be able to reason well.
And you kind of turn away from segments of his, like looking at the camera, you know, like Eddie Murphy does in Trading Friday.
Can you show up?
Mark Wayne Mullen.
Mark Wayne Mullen.
Yeah.
Here's the thing.
I'm going to tell you something.
As an analyst, this is jargon.
Please follow me into the weeds.
Mark Wayne Mullen, brain don't work good.
Yes.
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