3小时前 / 发布于 2026年3月5日，美国东部时间下午3:37
[唐纳德·特朗普]的非传统内阁在过去13个多月里，一直在考验一位将忠诚度置于经验之上的总统的智慧。
本周，终于有人被炒鱿鱼，这一事件达到了顶点。
特朗普周四下午宣布，他将任命俄克拉荷马州参议员马克韦恩·穆林取代处境艰难的国土安全部长克里斯蒂·诺姆。此前，诺姆在本周备受煎熬的听证会上，受到民主党人和甚至一些共和党人的质问，问题涉及特朗普政府不受欢迎的移民打击措施和其他事务。
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诺姆是特朗普内阁如何常常使他的信息复杂化，并制造出转移对政府最严重弱点的关注的副线事件的典型代表。
特朗普对周二和周三两天的证词感到愤怒——尤其是诺姆声称（特朗普否认这一点）总统知晓一场以她为特色的昂贵国土安全部广告活动。
据《调查性报道中心》（ProPublica）报道，路易斯安那州共和党议员约翰·肯尼迪重点关注了这场耗资2.2亿美元的广告活动，该活动中诺姆的形象十分突出，并为一位现已离职的国土安全部发言人的丈夫带来了一笔丰厚的分包合同。肯尼迪反复询问诺姆，特朗普是否批准了这个想法，而诺姆反复表示特朗普批准了。
（国土安全部声称该广告活动导致了许多自我驱逐。但鉴于该部门的诸多虚假陈述，其可信度已荡然无存，而其关于自我驱逐的说法显然被大幅夸大。）
肯尼迪总结道：“鉴于我对总统的了解，这很难让我相信。”
显然有理由让人难以相信，因为特朗普表示事情并未发生。
“我对此一无所知，”他在周四接受路透社电话采访时表示。
随后，他在社交媒体上发布了一条宣布诺姆被替换的帖子。（他称赞她取得了“非凡的成果”，并宣布她将获得一个新职位——美洲盾牌特别代表。）
但踩雷的不只是诺姆。
彼得·赫格塞斯
周三，国防部长彼得·赫格塞斯引发了一场风波——并促使白宫进行了一些清理工作——他声称媒体过于关注伊朗战争中阵亡的士兵。特朗普经常对军人的牺牲发表不当言论，但在他如今选择参与的这场战争中，这些言论有了新的含义。
（而这发生在他参与“信号门”事件之后，该事件在12月引发了一份严厉的监察长报告，称他危及了一项任务和士兵的生命。）
马尔科·卢比奥
国务卿马尔科·卢比奥一直在艰难地解释政府对这场战争的辩护——或者至少，以一种与政府其他成员（以及特朗普）说法一致的方式来解释。
洛里·查韦斯-德雷默
劳工部长洛里·查韦斯-德雷默似乎在与诺姆竞争谁能成为更多曝光的对象。查韦斯-德雷默的曝光包括本周早些时候《纽约时报》的一篇报道，该报道称劳工部正处于危机之中。
《纽约时报》此前曾报道，她的丈夫因性侵指控被禁止进入该部门总部。（对此事的刑事调查已结束。）本周，《纽约时报》报道，在该机构的不当行为调查中，她的两名高级助手被迫离职。
劳工部发言人告诉《纽约时报》：“部长仍然专注于推进总统的‘美国优先’议程，并执行该部门支持美国工人的使命。”
帕姆·邦迪
政府在杰弗里·爱泼斯坦案件文件上的诸多失误继续给其带来重大问题。
周三，众议院监督委员会的五名共和党人与民主党人一起采取了极为不寻常的步骤，向司法部长帕姆·邦迪发出传票，要求她解释其部门对爱泼斯坦案件文件的处理不当问题。显然，邦迪最近极具对抗性且不屑一顾的证词并未让真正关心此事的共和党人满意。
霍华德·卢特尼克
我们本周还了解到，商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克在面临自身压力后，将自愿作证。卢特尼克在加深政府在爱泼斯坦事件泥潭中的角色方面发挥了微妙但重要的作用。
这不仅是因为他谎称自己在二十年前就已与爱泼斯坦划清界限，还因为他去年年底的言论表明，他认为爱泼斯坦引诱人们接受按摩，然后进行敲诈。这些言论与司法部所说的以及特朗普宣称希望摆脱这个故事的表态直接矛盾。
综上所述，特朗普的内阁在加剧其爱泼斯坦文件问题、将他原本的竞选优势移民问题变成一个负担，以及进一步混淆关于这场不受欢迎的战争的本已混乱的信息方面发挥了重要作用。
更不用说一些部长面临的关于潜在不当行为和自利行为的质疑越来越多。
这些失误发生之际，政府内部显然已意识到内阁成员可能制造政治问题。
白宫在2月份举行了一次中期选举宣传和战略会议，内阁成员被告知，如果民主党在中期选举中获胜，他们可能会被弹劾。
内阁官员被告知，虽然特朗普会说出他想说的话，但他们需要不要偏离剧本。
“这是一场团队运动，”一位政府消息人士向美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的克里斯汀·霍尔姆斯总结了这次会议的基调。
而且很明显，美国民众对他的内阁评价不高。
12月的盖洛普民意调查显示，内阁中有四名成员的支持率低于零20个百分点，包括邦迪和赫格塞斯。1月份的皮尤研究中心调查显示，赫格塞斯的支持率低于零15个百分点。而一个月前的昆尼皮亚克大学民调显示，选民希望以58%-34%的压倒性优势罢免诺姆。
这些数字对于内阁成员来说都不正常。或者换一种说法，对于通常能留任的内阁成员来说，这些数字都不正常。
而现在，诺姆是第一个离开内阁的人。
Noem’s ouster comes as Trump’s Cabinet keeps causing him problems
3 hr ago / PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2026, 3:37 PM ET
[Donald Trump’s] unorthodox Cabinet spent the last 13-plus months testing the wisdom of a president prioritizing loyalty over experience.
That came to a head this week when someone finally got the ax.
Trump announced Thursday afternoon that he is replacing embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem with Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma. The move comes after a brutal pair of hearings this week in which Noem was pressed by Democrats and even some Republicans on the Trump administration’s unpopular immigration crackdown and other matters.
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Noem epitomizes how Trump’s Cabinet has often complicated his message and created sideshows that draw attention to some of the administration’s worst vulnerabilities.
Trump was angry with two days of testimony Tuesday and Wednesday – particularly Noem’s assertion, which he denies, that the president was aware of an expensive DHS ad campaign that featured her.
GOP Sen. John Kennedy focused on the $220 million ad campaign that prominently featured Noem and resulted in a lucrative subcontract for the husband of a now-former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, according to ProPublica. The Louisiana Republican repeatedly asked Noem whether Trump had signed off on the idea, and Noem repeatedly indicated Trump had.
(DHS has claimed the ad campaign led to many self-deportations. But the department’s credibility is in tatters given its many false claims, and its claims about self-deportations appear vastly inflated.)
Kennedy concluded that this was “hard for me to believe, knowing the president as I do.”
It was apparently difficult to believe for a reason, because Trump said it didn’t happen.
“I never knew anything about it,” he told Reuters in a phone interview Thursday.
He followed that up with a post on social media announcing Noem’s replacement. (He praised her “spectacular results” and announced she’s getting a new job — special envoy for the Shield of the Americas.)
But it’s not just Noem who’s stepping on rakes.
Pete Hegseth
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday caused a stir – and inspired some White House clean-up work – by claiming that the media focused too much on soldiers killed in the Iran war. Trump has often made off-color comments about the sacrifices of service members, but that takes on new significance in the war Trump has now chosen.
(And this comes after his role in “Signal-gate” produced a harsh inspector general’s report in December that said he had jeopardized a mission and soldiers’ lives.)
Marco Rubio
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has struggled mightily to explain the administration’s justification for the war – or at least, to do so in a way that’s consistent with the other things members of the administration (and Trump) are saying.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer appeared to be in something of a competition with Noem for which of them can be the subject of more exposés. Chavez-DeRemer’s now include one earlier this week from the New York Times which described a Labor Department in crisis.
The New York Times previously reported that her husband had been banned from the department’s headquarters amid sexual assault allegations. (A criminal investigation into that matter has been closed.) And this week, two of her top aides have been forced out amid an investigation into misconduct at the agency, the Times reported.
“The secretary remains focused on advancing the president’s America First agenda and carrying out the department’s mission to support American workers,” a Labor Department spokeswoman told the Times.
Pam Bondi
The administration’s many missteps on the Jeffrey Epstein files also continue to cause it major problems.
On Wednesday, five Republicans on the House Oversight Committee joined with Democrats to take the highly unusual step of issuing a subpoena to Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain her department’s mishandling of the Epstein files. Apparently Bondi’s highly combative and dismissive recent testimony didn’t satisfy the Republicans who actually care about this issue.
Howard Lutnick
We also learned this week that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will testify voluntarily after facing his own pressure to do so. Lutnick has played a subtly significant role in deepening the administration’s Epstein morass.
That’s not just because of his false claims about having distanced himself from Epstein two decades ago, but also his comments late last year indicating he believed Epstein lured people into getting massages and then blackmailed them. Those comments flatly contradicted what the Justice Department had said, as well as Trump’s declared desire to move on from the story.
So to sum up, Trump’s Cabinet has played a significant role in making his Epstein files problem worse, in turning his winning issue of immigration into a liability, and in further muddling an already muddled message about an unpopular war.
And that’s to say nothing of the increasing questions some secretaries are facing about potential misconduct and self-dealing.
The screw-ups come even as the administration has appeared internally sensitive to Cabinet members creating political problems.
The White House held a midterm messaging and strategy session in February in which Cabinet members were told that they were likely to be impeached if Democrats win the midterms.
The Cabinet officials were told that, while Trump will say what he will say, they need to not go off-script.
“This is a team sport,” an administration source summarized the tenor of the meeting to CNN’s Kristen Holmes.
And it’s pretty clear the American people don’t have much regard for his Cabinet.
A Gallup poll in December showed four members of it were more than 20 points underwater in their approval ratings, including Bondi and Hegseth. The Pew Research Center in January showed Hegseth 15 points underwater. And a poll a month ago from Quinnipiac University showed voters wanted Noem removed by a wide margin, 58%-34%.
None of those numbers are normal for Cabinet secretaries. Or, to put it a different way, none of those numbers are normal for Cabinet secretaries who are typically allowed to stick around.
And now Noem is the first out the door.
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