US EditionNoem silent during Trump Cabinet meeting
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was excluded from speaking at Trump’s first 2026 Cabinet meeting amid backlash over a federal agents' killing in Minnesota.
- On Thursday at the White House, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not speak during the roughly 90-minute Cabinet meeting, which President Donald Trump ended without taking reporters' questions.
- After the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, 37-year-old Minneapolis man, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's early statements were contradicted by video and reporting, while internal White House sources reported disputes over messaging involving Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
- Trump opened with prepared remarks and said `We are going to ask a couple of people to say a few words, and we're not going to go through the whole table`, then called on selected officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
- President Donald Trump nonetheless expressed confidence in Noem even as pressure mounted, while lawmakers urged her resignation and Border Czar Tom Homan signaled shifts in ICE tactics in Minnesota.
- The incident underscores an internal power struggle among senior immigration advisers, marking a shift from marathon Cabinet meetings to curated sessions that centralize messaging and focus scrutiny on DHS credibility via media and social platforms.
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Often pinned for his slumbers at official events, the American president, the oldest ever elected in the United States, delivered his version of the facts.
Trump's Cabinet Meeting Was Unusually Short
President Trump gathered his Cabinet for a video-broadcasted meeting Thursday that ended without questions from reporters. He spoke for about a half hour and called on some of his agency heads, but Trump ended his the meeting without asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to speak. It seemed an opportunity...
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President Donald Trump skipped over some key Cabinet secretaries on Thursday, leaving onlookers to speculate about who may be on the outs. During the 10th Cabinet meeting of his second term, Trump wrapped up the gathering after a prompt hour and 20 minutes. Trump made the exceedingly rare decision not to take questions at the end of the meeting, and those tuning in noticed he skipped over some high-profile officials who are currently under inten…
Everyone in the room laughed at Trump as he explained the embarrassing moment. Watch the whole thing in the video here.
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