South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has sparked controversy and backlash after publicly admitting to killing her 14-month-old wirehaired pointer dog, Cricket, and a goat because she found them troublesome and Cricket couldn't hunt. Noem, who is being considered as a potential vice-presidential candidate for Donald Trump in the 2024 US Election, defended her actions in her upcoming book, describing them as examples of her readiness to handle "difficult, messy, and ugly" tasks. The story has generated significant negative reactions, with critics labeling her actions as cruel and psychopathic, and questioning her suitability for political leadership.
MAGA REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR: UNTRAINABLE DOG PROBLEMS? BLOW ITS HEAD OFF! Kristi Noem - South Dakota Governor, extremist MAGA favorite, possible TRUMP VP pick, and psychopath — is sure to win the votes of dog killers. Meet the MAGA Republican Dog Killer https://t.co/gT14ntbKRS
While her conduct is repugnant, Noem has singlehandedly caused a resurgence in humor and endearing dog pictures on Twitter. https://t.co/q87FvIbr8z
Kristi Noem's Puppy-Killing Story Shocks CNN Panel: 'The Person Who Really Wrote Her Book Was Dexter': https://t.co/FpvebJUQ9t
South Dakota Governor (and possible Trump VP pick) is worse than I thought. Why is she defending killing a dog? https://t.co/xbPqVXkg8Q https://t.co/5s6mLIuBRc
The visceral, widespread contempt being heaped on the head of this sociopath is encouraging. There are so many options for people with dogs they find incompatible. Instead, Noem took a puppy, put it in a gravel pit, shot and killed her, then proudly wrote: "I hated that dog." https://t.co/ZnRWYxxdpA
Shooting a 14 month old dog for behaving like a 14-month of dog is appalling. Admitting you shot a 14-month old dog for behaving like a 14-month old dog in a political book meant to boost you into the vice presidency means you do not have the political skills to handle the Big…
Kristi Noem should resign. She is the exact type of grotesque politician that is destroying the GOP. It's not just the puppy killing (as if that weren't enough). Just a month ago she posted this supremely bizarre and off-putting infomercial for a cosmetic density practice in… https://t.co/w3DzCNUmRa
So is @GovKristiNoem gonna go to prison for killing her own dog like Michael Vick did for dog fighting? Or is she just gonna make money off of it and potentially become the next Vice President? https://t.co/MxMsp1tEvb
Social media disturbed by Gov. Noem's story about shooting her 14 month-old-dog: ‘Not normal' https://t.co/x7pn8HI9QE
Why is this woman obsessed with telling us about putting down animals?? What an incredible disaster. Rising star, VP hopeful, to "that politician who bragged about blowing away her dog" https://t.co/WBhwffQMBH
Look. I’m just going to state the obvious. I know it will anger some people but I don’t care. The fact that @GovKristiNoem had such bad judgement to write about shooting her dog IN A BOOK shows that she doesn’t have the judgement to be Trump’s VP. That is called poor…
I guess @KristiNoem would shoot all these dogs for having too much fun. https://t.co/9CxdecaAxy
As a South Dakotan from a ranching family , I am deeply sickened by the dog story in the @KristiNoem book. Please don’t ever think that is something that South Dakotans stand for, or that we find normal. Trump needs to stay far from her. She is not VP material!!!
PETA calls @KristiNoem a ‘psychotic loony’ for deadly dog story https://t.co/eQ029xwM95 https://t.co/eQ029xwM95
I never thought @KristiNoem was a particularly useful Republican outside of South Dakota, nor that she should be Trump‘s vice president pick, but holy cow – could you imagine six months of a campaign that revolves entirely around her shooting a naughty puppy?
I don’t even like dogs and the story, as Kristi Noem tells it, sounds pretty heartless.
Shot a 14-month old puppy? Absolutely disgusting @KristiNoem — karma awaits you in a gravel pit called Hell. https://t.co/39h6VwPKMn
Kristi Noem decided it would be a good idea to talk about putting down the family dog in her memoirs and you have to see the internet's reaction https://t.co/Uw8qx2RnUV https://t.co/Uw8qx2RnUV
Okay so I’m finally up to speed on Noem killing her dog. I was open to the idea there was more to the story, farm life is hard, etc. But this seems indefensible to me. If I had that attitude about my Carolina Dog, I would have shot Zoë a dozen times over when she was young. 1/
TRIGGER WARNING: If you are an animal lover, do NOT watch this clip where I read from @MartinPengelly's excellent piece about Kristi Noem killing her family dog and goat. (***Please note that I am laughing at the outrageousness of this situation, not at the animals!) https://t.co/OFhIOROyyL
Wake up to furious tl b/c someone shot a dog. I'm thinking a crazy person, high on meth or something. Nope...#KristiNoem 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬
Some people in defending Kristi Noem shooting her hunting dog have said that "farm life is different." Well, regardless, you don't get more politically tone deaf than casually telling the story of shooting your dog. HOW did that make it past her comms team and publisher?
Kristi Noem has been acting very strangely lately. The weird informercials, the story about shooting her dog. I mean, all of this is political suicide. WHY?
Kristi Noem murdered her own dog. And that is the end of her political career. The level of contempt I have for anyone who *mistreats* a dog is beyond my ability to express. Someone who *murders* a dog? My response are words I cannot even say publicly. RETWEET if you agree. https://t.co/QbTCTPP40U
The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem's soon-to-be released book. In it, she tells the story of the ill-fated Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer she was training for pheasant hunting. https://t.co/2jmKzvnIiK
This is the last time I’m going to talk about the Kristi Noem dog story because I don’t like to hit Republicans, but she would be political cancer to the Trump ticket now. Americans are dog lovers. The whole world are dog lovers. I don’t know all the details of her story, but… https://t.co/beCPQirnXK
The potential vice presidential candidate in the 2024 US Election has defended shooting a pet she "hated". https://t.co/TgCLnqfd79
Kristi Neom shot and killed her family dog right as her children were getting off of the school bus Why are politicians such awful people?
South Dakota governor defends book excerpt where she describes killing dog and goat | Click on the image to read the full story https://t.co/K22oJeBt98
nobody: kristi noem: i executed a 1-year-old dog… and a goat… …….. kristi noem: ok i also killed some horses
Alpha Richard Nixon: “I would rather give my chance to be Vice President than give up my dog.” Beta Kristi Noem: “That dog is mildly inconvenient. LET’S KILL IT!” https://t.co/z2vlvz2NQp
Kristi Noem. Geez. First the plastic surgery that turned her from an attractive, mature woman into a Hollywood style freak. Then writing a book about shooting her puppy. Talk about imploding a political career. Americans love their dogs. Not ones with gross plastic surgery,…
Crazy to think that Kristi Noem actively *chose* to include that passage in her book and now suddenly her entire political ambitions are in tatters. She might well have been Trump's VP and consequently the first female POTUS. Now she will be remembered as the puppy murderer.
“We need someone tough to clean up Washington. How tough is Kristi Noem? Tough enough to shoot her own puppy in the face. Imagine what she’ll do once she gets to DC. Vote Trump-Noem 2024” Why the puppy murder anecdote was even included her book- so she’d look ‘tough’.
Kristi Noem is doing promos for cosmetic dentistry in Texas and keeping two romantic relationships alive, but couldn’t find time to train her dog so she shot it.
The eyes say it all. Empty and deranged. The governor of South Dakota, @KristiNoem is a psycho who killed her puppy by shooting it in cold blood in a gravel pit instead of just… finding her a new home? Young wire haired pointers are very in demand, she could have easily… https://t.co/FrtiIL8gxv
Bet a million bucks that Kristi Noem included the dog-killing story to her book to look like a “tough girl-boss.” She severely miscalculated the line between tough and psychotic. 🤣
Hey @GovKristiNoem if your adopted puppy isn't working out for you, then it's your job to try to find it a new home, NOT blow it's brains out, you gun-crazy b*tch. https://t.co/m7kQcqP6gS
PRO-TIP: If you want to run for political office don’t shoot your dog. But if you do don’t write about it in your autobiography. Americans love dogs more than the tolerate politicians. Kristi Noem just blew her chance to be Trump’s VP. https://t.co/X6BrnS7gqU
The Governor of South Dakota violently killed her puppy in cold blood because she couldn’t be bothered to train it properly or even simply re-home it? Instead, she shot her domestic dog in a gravel pit. Serial killers often start with animals, so I would be very concerned that… https://t.co/PU2ghmmUQi
"Noem had to put down the dog because it was dangerous!!" That could be true, but from what I can tell it sounds like Noem was incompetentnand had zero patience for it (it was only 14 months after all). But either way, WHY EVEN TALK ABOUT IT IN PUBLIC?
Reading these stories from Kristi Noem about going “Yellowstone” at her farm, shooting her animals…wow. https://t.co/h794KDJm0u
She didn’t only shoot a puppy. She put a slug into her VP chances as well. https://t.co/x4CgHx8fiE
Vice President of murdering dogs: @KristiNoem https://t.co/QPz351YFSi
“If You Don’t Vote For Me, I’ll Gladly Kill This Dog”—GOP VP-seeker Kristi Noem https://t.co/8eNgWSRm1h https://t.co/PUDOWA0LX6
"'I hated that dog': Potential Trump running mate under fire after relating why she shot pup." (via @pbpost) https://t.co/icQLWNbf2E
*Kristi Noem shoots Old Yeller* “How did you know he had rabies, Kristi?” “He had rabies?!”
F@ck you Kristi Noem! Nobody that shows cruelty towards animals should ever be in a leadership role. She not only shot her dog but also killed her family goat. People that do that are usually labeled “Psychopath”.
Wait… The influencer Governor shot a pup, or is this some Clash Daily headline cuz I’ve seen a few X posts but haven’t really checked to verify? If she shot a pup🐶😫, I’m done with Noem. Nothing I hate more in life than animal killers, especially those who gloat about it https://t.co/Og6Ws0fDng
There's just so much psychopathy and viciousness in politics. A Governor is using a story of her shooting her dog to sell her book, calling it "politically incorrect"? https://t.co/F6ZrIvLtxl
There's just so much sadism and viciousness in politics. A Governor is using a story of her shooting her dog to sell her book, calling it "politically incorrect"? https://t.co/F6ZrIvLtxl
I’ve never thought much of Noem as a politician or a Governor, but publicly revealing that you killed a healthy puppy because you didn’t like its behavior is insane. Did she also confess to abusing babies in this book or is she saving that for the sequel?
.@KristiNoem recounts gruesome tale about killing her 14-month-old dog who couldn’t hunt: ‘I hated that dog’ https://t.co/n3C1tTxNT8 https://t.co/n3C1tTxNT8
A disturbing part about Noems dog shooting story, is she could have left it out but intended to use it to show how “tough” she is and how she can “do what needs to be done.” Backfire. And sick
Despising animal cruelty should be bipartisan. #KristiNoem_PuppyBearDeerKiller 🤮 https://t.co/lLEgemU6fQ
Nowhere in America is it common to execute a 14-month-old dog that your daughter calls "Cricket." If you read the story Noem tells, this was not some considered decision to put down a dangerous dog. She lost her temper, decided the dog was too much trouble, and shot it. https://t.co/7GMs3spqLt
The de-evolution of the GOP 1952: Richard Nixon gets a dog Checkers as a low-key bribe and decides to keep it 1983: Mitt Romney straps his dog Seamus to the roof of the car for 12 hours Pre-2024: Kristi Noem is annoyed by her dog Cricket so she shoots and kills him. Also a 🐐
Trump’s leading VP candidate brags about shooting puppies. You literally can’t make this level of absurdity up. If the dog wasn’t trainable, then find it a loving home. Who just shoots a puppy? https://t.co/gkBg6g9gGo
Trump’s leading VP candidate brags about shooting puppies. You literally can’t make absurdity up. If the dog wasn’t trainable then find it a loving home. Who just shoots a puppy? https://t.co/gkBg6g9gGo
What if she published the story about killing her own dog to increase her chances of becoming Trump’s VP? We know Trump hates dogs… https://t.co/61zQcR4Kqz
The inevitable escalation of politicians trying to out-cowboy one another, wherein the governor of South Dakota talks about straight up killing a puppy that she was too lazy and/or inept to train.
In politics, if you're explaining you're losing. No one cares about the backstory. "Noem shot her puppy because the dog wouldn't hunt." That's it. That's all 99.9% of people who don't research will ever know. Noem was a retard to put that in the book.
#DonaldTrump VP prospect #KristiNoem faces backlash as she admits to killing 'worthless' puppy and goat: 'You’re disgusting' https://t.co/EzK5aCfav4
Just thinking that the sickest part of this is that servile, wanna be VP @KristiNoem is telling the world she executes dogs because she knows it will appeal to the famously canine-phobic Trump. These are seriously sick puppies. https://t.co/BIpsEpY0O2
To clear the palate after learning Kristi Noem kills dogs, I'm posting a picture of my golden, Chance, who sucks at hunting squirrels and cannot be trained to stop stealing thongs and socks. Feel free to do the same. https://t.co/AgzARqQjbZ https://t.co/vUtIVRTgzc
When political stories revolve around animals, they get extra attention But Gov. Noem writing about once shooting her mean dog Cricket and then shooting a mean goat (unnamed) is next level https://t.co/4Yhj0qeNdc
Trump/Noem '24: "We Will Kill Your Dog" https://t.co/PwJfB92W60
Kristi Noem can now add "puppy killer" to her long resume of degenerate behavior. Everyday that there's darkness permeating from MAGA world, we must fight it w/ the best weapon we have in our arsenal - optimism. Show us your beautiful pet photos today with #LincolnPets.🐕 https://t.co/uf9vcWcgcn
Reaching for an example of her unflinching preparedness to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it needs to be done, Kristi Noem landed on a chilling example: the time she killed her pet dog, Cricket, in an execution-style gravel pit slaying. https://t.co/dJnJfsSqsG