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Bulwark Takes

Noem Calls Biden a Tyrant, Trump a Savior—For the Same Thing

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Kristi Noem insists Los Angeles was spared from destruction only because of Trump. Sam Stein shows why this is absurd and has the receipts of when Noem ignored the same logic in her own state.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:23.6

It is Labor Day weekend. Happy Labor

0:25.2

Day. Not Labor Day yet, but it's Sunday and everyone's chilling except for me because I was

0:28.9

watching the Sunday shows. And something so absurd happened with Christy Gnome that I felt the need

0:33.5

to jump on YouTube and talk about it because it was pretty ridiculous and hilarious.

0:37.9

So Christine Nome was on Face the Nation, CBS show. She's there to talk about the whole, you know,

0:42.7

spectrum of Trump immigration, deportation-related news. And in the course of being asked about all

0:49.2

this stuff, Ed O'Keefe, the host, prescestor on the decision to deploy National Guard to Los Angeles.

0:56.4

And if you remember, this was like the first case test for the administration where there was

1:00.5

protestations or protests over the ICE operations in L.A., primarily because they were

1:05.7

targeting Home Depot's and things like that.

1:07.5

And so there's some scattered protests, but it was kind of confined to a few blocks.

1:11.7

And folks who were in L.A. at the times, basically, we were like, it's so overblown. It's like a

1:18.5

three or four block radius where there's some trouble. The administration's making a big deal

1:22.4

out of it. They're sending in all these troops. It makes no sense. And yeah, we kind of forgot about it because we moved

1:29.2

on to a million other things. But anyways, here's Christy Knoem on CBS this morning saying with a totally

1:37.8

straight face, I can't believe it, that if not for President Trump sending in the guard,

1:43.1

the entire city of Los Angeles,

1:45.5

the second most populous city in the country, I think it's like 500 square miles. I'll have to

1:49.9

double check that. That it would not have been left standing, if not for President Trump.

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