Something I Wonder If Kristi Noem Now Regrets

       Whatever your feelings about Department of Homeland Security ex-Director Kristi Noem, ​

...I mean, you have to admit that Donald Trump double-crossed her. Just like he double-crosses almost everybody who does any kind of work for him, from the contractors, small business owners, and workers he's hired then refused to pay for materials used and services rendered, to the staffers and law makers he's made use of to do or legitimize his dirty work then fired, or reneged on an understood promise of political compensation, or allowed to land in prison, or in some other way trampled or destroyed their careers or reputations.
          Or publicly humiliated, as he humiliated Kristi Noem in not telling her privately that she was fired, but making her find out along with the rest of the world when last Thursday he announced on social media that he was proud to announce that Senator Markwayne Mullin was the new head of the Department of Homeland Security.       
        As for Noem, she was - surprise! - now special envoy to some new, comic-book-sounding outfit nobody ever heard of called The Shield of the Americas. And for which she's already been the object of much social media memery.   

         Of course as head of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem did Donald Trump's will right down to the minute. Did it with a vengeance, even. What human being could have done the job more to Trump's liking?​

         Well, that's Donald Trump for you. To him everybody is two Big Macs and a large Diet Coke.
          But while watching a clip of Kristi Noem's performance last week in the role of  what some folks are calling Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Barbie,

...I found myself wondering about something.
​      After everything Kristi Noem did to promote Donald Trump and his agenda, 

...she ended up the laughing stock of the universe (which is better than what she deserves after turning the Department of Homeland Security into the Kristi Noem Theater of Cruelty).​

     Anyway, I wondered if now she at all regretted all that plastic surgery she underwent to achieve the look - now commonly known as Mar-a-Lago Face - that has become de rigueur for women in Donald Trump's circle.

      I wondered if she ever wished she could have her old face back, the face that got her as far as a seat in Congress,

...as far as the Governor of  South Dakota, ​

...even as far as the 1990 South Dakota Snow Queen.  ​

      The face that was, in any case, authentically her own before she hitched her wagon to Donald Trump's star then went under the knife and needle to more closely resemble the proto-Mar-a-lago Face,

...and to look 27 years old instead of her 54.

    In fact, I wonder how many, if any, of the Mar-a-Lago- Faced women in the Trump orbit wish they could have their former faces back.
​
     Lara Trump

     Kimberly Guilfoyle

     Laura Loomer

     Karoline Leavitt

       Or is it more like that episode from the Twilight Zone called "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" (January 24, 1964, Season 5, episode 17)?
​        The story tells of a future in which it's the societal norm for woman when they reach adulthood to go through a facial transformation, with two beautiful options to choose from. There was the Number 8:

...or the Number 12:

      And so all women were beautiful, though each looked like either Number 8 or  Number 12. 
       But it was all good, because when the women had their faces changed, their brains were changed, too, so that they all came out happy to look like each other.

        Maybe it's like that in the MAGA Zone. But what about after you've been jettisoned from the Zone? Will you still like looking at your Mar-a-Lago Face then?

      

References
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/politics/kristi-noem-lost-trump-markwayne-mullin

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/kristi-noem-tapped-to-head-shield-of-americas-in-doral-summit-40529468/

https://www.nickiswift.com/2070369/what-happened-kristi-noem-face-transformation/

https://www.thelist.com/2081857/most-jarring-plastic-surgery-transformations-in-maga-history/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_8713341