Kristi Noem, Donald Trump's controversial Secretary of Homeland Security , also appears to be his new favorite female cabinet member. Considering this particular president, that's a mixed blessing at best. On August 21, 2025, Trump walked the streets of Washington, D.C., with the local police and National Guard troops to demonstrate how much safer he claims the nation's capital has become with the increased crackdown on crime. He then went on to order pizza for the group and delivered a speech in which he complimented Noem in a strange way: "Where's my Kristi? Thank you, dear, thank you very much. She's been incredible," he said in Fox News coverage (per X ). Then it got weirder: "And she can ride a horse like nobody. She gets on those horses, she whips those horses around ... "

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