Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday accused Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) of “political theater” for attempting to ask questions at a press conference.
“Nobody knew who he was, he didn’t say who he was,” Noem claimed during a Fox News interview, despite footage showing Padilla clearly identifying himself during the encounter. “I would have loved to have sat down and had a conversation with him, that coming into a press conference like this is political theater.”
Her agency sent a similar message on her behalf via Twitter, also calling it “political theatre,” using the British spelling of the word.
Her critics fired back on X with some photographic evidence: