Kristi Noem offers cringeworthy take on Markwayne Mullins emergency landing in Coast Guard plane
WASHINGTON — Kristi Noem found a way to make a near-plane crash about herself.The former Department of Homeland Security secretary, nicknamed “ICE Barbie,” weighed in on her successor, Markwayne Mullin, having to make an emergency landing at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday — with a single working engine on his Coast Guard plane and a fire spotted. “So thankful everyone is safe.
Guess the Coast Guard did need new planes,” Noem wrote on X about the incident.Noem was tooting her own horn for buying the Department of Homeland Security $172 million worth of private planes, saying they were needed in the wake of an emergency landing that endangered the current secretary. As secretary, Noem traveled far and wide, including to a hell-hole Salvadoran prison wearing a $50,000 Rolex watch.She was often alongside her long-rumored lover Corey Lewandowski.The pair caused turbulence when Lewandowski fired a Coast Guard pilot for leaving Noem’s blanket on a plane — but was forced to rehire them upon realizing there was nobody else to fly the party home.
Noem switched planes due to a maintenance issue, but her blanket was not moved to the replacement aircraft.“They need [a] new plane, but not for the reason you wanted new planes,” one online user mocked on Thursday after Noem’s comment.“Better luck next time trying to acquire a flying brothel for you and Corey Lewandowski.
Dirt bag.”The department, under Noem’s tenure as secretary, spent $172 million of taxpayer money on a pair of Gulfstream private jets for the Coast Guard. Democrats and other critics went to town on Noem over the purchase and what they called her “lavish” lifestyle as secretary, including living in a Coast Guard commander’s home on a DC-area military base.The Coast Guard is under the purview of DHS.Mullin was on an older plane when the emergency landing was made at Reagan National Airport.
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