The party that put biological men on women’s podiums, erased the word “woman” from federal guidance, and whose Supreme Court Justice couldn’t define the word “woman” — is now outraged that Donald Trump fired two underperforming cabinet secretaries. Who happened to be women.
The moment President Donald Trump removed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi from their posts, progressive media conveniently remembered what a woman is and erupted with righteous fury. These are the same commentators who mocked these women for wearing crosses and appearing on television. They spent years calling them racist, unqualified MAGA props. And the same movement that cannot define what a woman is now claims to be their defender, finally discovering their inner feminist. And who is the mascot of this movement but none other than Jennifer Seibel Newsom, who, unsurprisingly, preaches that Trump has launched a “War on Women.”
This narrative doesn’t survive contact with reality.
Seibel’s narrative doesn’t abide the fact that a group of men was the first out the door. Matt Gaetz was forced out eight days before he ever took office. Mike Waltz, the first Senate-confirmed appointee actually fired, exited in May 2025 after the Signal chat scandal. (He was subsequently reassigned as UN Ambassador.) Just this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ousted Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George — a four-star general with over 35 years of service — in the middle of an active conflict with Iran. Dan Bongino served as FBI Deputy Director, delivered results including cracking a four-year-old cold case on the January 6th pipe bombs, and departed on his own terms. These are not the headlines of an administration waging war on women. These are the headlines of an administration that holds everyone accountable.
Look at who is still in the room. Susie Wiles — the first female White House Chief of Staff in American history — is running the operation while battling breast cancer. Karoline Leavitt, the youngest Press Secretary ever, is nine months pregnant and still at the podium. Brooke Rollins, Linda McMahon, and Tulsi Gabbard are all still delivering. Trump built a cabinet with eight women in top-tier roles at the outset — roughly one-third of his team, more than most Republican presidents before him. These women aren’t relinquishing power. They hold some of the most consequential jobs in the federal government because they earned them.
What exactly are Noem and Bondi guilty of? Noem’s tenure included congressional testimony blowups and a $220 million self-promotional ad campaign that looked more like a reelection vehicle than a border enforcement effort. Bondi frustrated the White House with slow progress on the Epstein files and pursuing cases against Trump’s political opponents — the core of her mandate. This administration declared war on DEI from day one and fired Biden holdovers because they undeniably obstructed the agenda. Noem and Bondi were held to that same standard.
Now consider the source of the outrage. Jennifer Seibel Newsom’s monologue lamenting the “devaluation of women” fell on deaf ears — after all, she spent two years slamming these same women. The media now mourning Noem and Bondi called them unqualified MAGA Barbie bigots throughout their entire tenures. Where was the feminist solidarity then?
Compare that to Biden’s record: a vice president famously “unburdened by what has been” — because she’d accomplished virtually nothing. A health secretary who insisted men could become women. A diversity agenda that counted biological males as women. They padded the numbers while magically erasing the category entirely.
What the Left is really angry about isn’t that two women were fired. It’s that this White House refuses to play Identity Politics. That refusal exposes the hollowness of their so-called “empowerment.” Real power isn’t handed out by quota. It’s earned. Susie Wiles didn’t become the first female Chief of Staff because of a diversity mandate. She got there because she’s the best in the room.
Jennifer Seibel Newsom can lecture us about the patriarchy. But she might start by explaining why the movement she represents spent two years trying to destroy the very women she’s now defending.
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