Why Kristi Noem Hates FEMA [View all]

It seems the far right has a long history of believing whacky conspiracy theories. As to why Trump and Noem want to end FEMA, as we know it, this is as a good a guess as any.

From Salon:
“When FEMA was founded in 1979, far-right groups immediately circulated rumors that FEMA’s disaster relief mission was a cover story for the true goal: Rounding up white Christians into concentration camps, so the “globalists” (read: Jews, people of color, feminists, queer people) could impose the “New World Order.”

As usual with racist conspiracists, the psychological motivation is a combination of sublimated shame and defensiveness, manifesting in a victim complex. In the imagination of right-wingers, the “real” victims are white Christians, and it’s the people who were once subjected to slavery, concentration camps and genocide who are the oppressors.”

https://www.salon.com/2025/07/14/why-kristi-noem-hates-fema/