On June 5, 2024, Kristi Noem made a guest appearance on NewsNation to discuss her controversial memoir, but viewers fixated on something else entirely. Many unleashed their inner Joan Rivers to critique her hair, a high ponytail a la Ariana Grande with some curled curtain bangs. To top it all off, she wore a pair of dangling earrings that did nothing to save the look.
In a post sharing a snippet of the interview on X (formerly Twitter), fans (or should we say haters?) did not hold back with their criticism. “What’s up with the 70s prom hair and swinging balls on her ears?” one fan tweeted, with another saying, “Boy oh boy. What a hair style. Looks like you had a rump in the sack look. Or were you crying from murdering your puppy who failed at hunting.” Some also took aim at her comments on the show about her pandemic policies, suggesting her hair was affecting her cognition. “Kristi seems to suffer from memory loss. Imagine its from the weight of that f***ing hair on the top of her head,” they wrote.
With all this shade, it’s pretty clear that Noem is no longer in the public’s good graces, and unfortunately for her, doing damage control and shaking up her style won’t make Donald Trump pick her as a VP candidate, either. “She is of no use,” Scott Jennings, a former President George W. Bush political adviser, told Politico. “What does she bring? The possibility of weirdo drama. That’s it. She appeals to no constituency Trump doesn’t already have.”
