Trump's Anti-Terror Gardener, Thomas Fugate 22, Humiliated by His Own Boss

Source: The Daily Beast

Trump’s Anti-Terror Gardener, 22, Humiliated by His Own Boss

Tom Latchem
Tue, July 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM EDT
3 min read

When Kristi Noem put 22-year-old Thomas Fugate in charge of a unit fighting domestic terror in June, her department rushed to praise the MAGA loyalist for his “leadership.” But within days, the Daily Beast revealed that the new official overseeing the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) had no experience in fighting terrorism—and in fact had only ever worked as a gardener and a grocery store clerk.

Now, Fugate has been publicly downgraded by his own department and made to give a humiliating interview, insisting that he is only a “low-level” member of staff.

On June 5, a senior official from the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) told the media that Fugate—a Donald Trump superfan who interned at The Heritage Foundation—had been “temporarily given additional leadership responsibilities” at the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), describing the promotion as “a credit to his work ethic and success on the job.”

The following day, the Daily Beast revealed that the staffer—who graduated from university only 12 months earlier—had been working as a neighborhood gardener five years before and as a grocery store assistant as recently as August 2023, causing the department huge embarrassment.

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