It never gets old, does it? The left-wing media lines up for what they think is an easy knockout, only to walk away dazed and battered after yet another Trump ally calmly, methodically, and—most importantly—factually dismantles their scripted attacks. This week’s episode of “CNN Gets Humiliated on Its Own Show” starred none other than DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who took on the ever-predictable Dana Bash on State of the Union. Spoiler alert: It wasn’t even a fair fight.
This time, Bash thought she had the perfect gotcha moment, questioning the legality of sending illegal aliens to Guantanamo Bay—a policy the Trump administration is reportedly setting up. Because, naturally, CNN is more worried about whether illegal immigrants’ constitutional rights are being violated than the millions of Americans suffering from skyrocketing crime, overburdened social services, and unchecked migration.
Amid questions over the legality of moving migrants to Guantanamo, @Sec_Noem tells @DanaBashCNN, “The president is comfortable with that… Obviously, there will be people that will be critics of that. But we are standing up the operations believing we have all legal right and… pic.twitter.com/HXWbe3aGtb
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) February 9, 2025
Bash kicked things off with the usual scripted concern:
“Undocumented immigrants detained in the United States … have a right to legal counsel and due process … but one of the questions is about whether or not Guantanamo—if whether or not you actually have the law on your side to use Guantanamo for this purpose…”
A long-winded way of saying, “How dare you enforce the law?”
Noem didn’t flinch. She started to calmly explain that Gitmo has housed migrants before, but Bash—like every Democrat operative with a microphone—rudely cut her off mid-sentence. (Standard operating procedure when their guest starts making too much sense.)
So Noem laid it out clearly:
“I am [comfortable with it]. And the president’s comfortable with that … as his legal scholars are. And obviously there will be people who are critics of that but we are standing up the operations, believing we have all legal authority to do so.”
Translation: We know what we’re doing, it’s legal, and we don’t care what CNN thinks about it.
Now, to any rational observer, the real issue here is that millions of people are illegally pouring into the country, overwhelming American cities, committing violent crimes, and draining taxpayer resources. But not CNN. No, Dana Bash and her media cohorts are laser-focused on whether we’re treating these lawbreakers nicely enough as we figure out what to do with them.
It’s a perfect encapsulation of why CNN’s ratings are in a death spiral—because regular Americans see through the game.
Just when Bash thought she could land a punch, she tried to ambush Noem on Trump’s suggestion that FEMA should be scrapped. Surely, she thought, Noem would panic at such a suggestion.
Here’s the setup:
“If the president came to you and said, ‘You’re my DHS secretary, do you think I should get rid of FEMA? … What would you say?”
But Noem knew exactly where this was going, and her response was pitch-perfect:
“I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today. We still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go to people that have these types of disasters, like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California, but you need to let the local officials make the decisions on how that is deployed, so it can be deployed much quicker.”
Ouch.
Not only did she avoid the trap, she actually made Trump’s case stronger. The point isn’t that disaster victims shouldn’t get federal assistance—it’s that FEMA is a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy that has failed repeatedly when it’s needed most. Whether it was Hurricane Helene in North Carolina or the California wildfires, FEMA has been an absolute disaster, delaying response times and drowning local communities in red tape. Noem laid it out simply: Get rid of the bureaucratic mess, give control back to state and local leaders, and let them actually help people when they need it most.
At some point, you’d think CNN would learn their lesson. Time after time, Republicans like Sen. Tom Cotton, Sen. Josh Hawley, and Trump’s top officials like Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Marco Rubio, and Kristi Noem walk into these “interviews” and absolutely wreck these smug, self-important anchors.
But they can’t stop themselves. They need these moments to feed their dwindling audience the illusion that they’re the guardians of democracy, bravely holding the evil Trump regime accountable.
The problem? Americans aren’t buying it anymore. They see the real problems—skyrocketing crime, open borders, economic turmoil, and cultural decay—and they watch these media hacks ignore all of it in favor of trying to trip up Trump officials on legal technicalities.
And so, the CNN humiliation tour continues. Week after week, another Trump official walks into their studio, destroys their talking points, and leaves unscathed while the hosts scramble to regain control of the narrative.
.@DanaBashCNN: “If the president came to you and said, ‘You’re my DHS secretary, do you think I should get rid of FEMA?’… What would you say?”@Sec_Noem: “I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today.” pic.twitter.com/VAfBzXXIOP
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) February 9, 2025
