Kristi Noem Faces Internet Ire After Donning Sombrero at Mexican Restaurant on Her Birthday

Tom Durante Dec 5th, 2025, 1:46 pm

Homeland Security boss Kristi Noem is feeling the heat of the internet after posting a video of her donning a sombrero as Mexican restaurant workers sing to her on her birthday.

The video, posted on Noem’s Facebook page on November 29, shows a restaurant staffer removing Noem’s baseball cap and replacing it with a pink and yellow sombrero as others sing the “Happy Birthday” song in Spanish. They followed up by singing the song again, in English, as Noem clapped along.

Noem turned 54 on November 30.

Given Noem’s position in the Department of Homeland Security and the impact of ICE raids across the country, many on social media showed no mercy in response t

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