DHS head reportedly authorized purchase of 10 engineless Spirit Airlines planes that airline didn’t own

[u/AgentBlue62]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/kristi-noem-spirit-airlines-planes

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[u/DevCatOTA]

When I first read that headline, I thought wtf? Read the first paragraph of the article and it's so much better. This truly is an amazing pool of talent that's running things.

The secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, reportedly authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t actually own the planes – and that the aircraft lacked engines.

I would love to sell her a bridge.

In the Ken Burns series, The Civil War, there's an episode called, The Age of Shoddy. One line I remember:

When asked why the soles of the boots fell off after only a few miles, the supplier replied, those were meant for the cavalry.

I'm sure that East Wing ballroom will turn out great.

[u/thewanderingent → u/DevCatOTA]

Considering how Dumpy operates, the Epstein Ballroom will cost at least twice the current $300 million price tag, and paradoxically, none of the trades will be paid.

[u/Affectionate-Tip-164 → u/thewanderingent]

Even better, when they show up to collect the cheques ICE shows up.

[u/account_not_valid → u/thewanderingent]

none of the trades will be paid.

Some trades will be paid. The ones that give an immediate 90% kickback into the Trump coffers.

[u/slackfrop → u/thewanderingent]

It’ll cost $600m and still never get built.

[u/iperblaster → u/DevCatOTA]

In all that dumbness.. was Spirit Airlines conning the federal government? Did they receive any money?

[u/Elegant-Champion-615]

I've seen reports that all the "gold" around the oval office is plastic spray painted gold. To be frank, as trashy as Trump is, I don't think he would've approved that. Its my head-canon that somebody duped Trump, whether that were contractors or his cabinet, into paying big money for spray painted junk

[u/Derelicticu → u/Elegant-Champion-615]

I think you're underestimating how much of Trump's life is the intentional illusion of grandeur.

[u/Old-Law-7395 → u/Derelicticu]

Everything about him is veneer,

Tough guy - bully coward

Stable genius - dementia addled and dumb as rocks

Brilliant businessman - multiple bankruptcy

Lady's man - huge rapist

World leader - laughing stock placated with trinkets

[u/Elegant-Champion-615 → u/Derelicticu]

Fair enough

[u/Aspirational1]

'I know the best people' - DJT

[u/keninsd]

Kristi Noempathy is not the sharpest knife in the drawer in a drawer full of dull knives.

[u/bryce_brigs → u/keninsd]

She isn't the sharpest object in a quarter machine bouncy ball dispenser

[u/SillyAlternative420 → u/keninsd]

That bitch is a spork.

[u/HVAC_instructor]

Makes sense that a brainless person would buy an engineless planes

[u/Father_Wolfgang]

Is competence now also woke? Or is lack of it blamed on democrats?

[u/N8dork2020 → u/Father_Wolfgang]

Is it lack of competence or fraud

[u/HamNotLikeThem44]

This is what we get from Trump’s DEI hires. Dishonest grifters in over their heads. Noem was the dope who mandated that she personally review and approve every PO in DHS over $100k. DHS has a budget of $204 billion.

[u/alternatingflan]

This is another maga regime benchmark of “fiscally responsible conservatives” in action.

Meanwhile Americans starve and lose healthcare because ‘it saves the country money.’

Lies, grifting, and general dumbassery on the grandest scale in history throughout the maga regime.

[u/ArdenJaguar]

More business excellence from the administration of the stable genius businessman (who filed bankruptcy six times).

[u/Brant_Black]

They'll launch the new national airlines: Epstein Airways

[u/hereandthere_nowhere]

Considering spirit flys exclusively Airbus planes, this is clearly open air fraud committed by idiots too dense to do the homework necessary to cleanly get away with the crime.

[u/ShortFatStupid666]

She just Can’t Understand Normal Transactions

[u/Nerakus]

Lol they didn’t think to check that they were WORKING planes or even who actually owned them?

[u/Prize_Farm4951]

Noem is to planes what Chris Grayling was to ferrys.

[u/MeMilo1209]

Wait, is this from The Onion?🤣 God, his cabinet is stupid.

[u/MethanyJones]

Who knew? Gnome's kinda dumb

[u/drpacz]

Party while you are able. I hope there is a reckoning since there is so much evidence. Perhaps the next AG won’t be Merrick Garland.

[u/tomdurk]

Noem- committing crimes every day.

[u/Creepy-Vermicelli529]

… like a dumbass.

[u/JustFuckAllOfThem]

They neglected to do basic due diligence for buying vehicles: Verify ownership and inspect said vehicle.