--- title: Dog Shooter Kristi Noem Sets Her Sights on Biden’s Commander description: The South Dakota Governor and Trump VP hopeful suggested that Biden’s bite-prone dog should join the dog she admitted to shooting. canonical: https://time.com/6974956/kristi-noem-joe-biden-dog-shot/ author: Chad de Guzman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-05-06T03:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-01-19T12:44:44.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Dog Shooter Kristi Noem Sets Her Sights on Biden’s Commander og:description: The South Dakota Governor and Trump VP hopeful suggested that Biden’s bite-prone dog should join the dog she admitted to shooting. og:url: https://time.com/6974956/kristi-noem-joe-biden-dog-shot/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdbe4672ef4016981/698a566a86f68e7e966f5157/commander.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-BIDEN-DOG og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dog Shooter Kristi Noem Sets Her Sights on Biden’s Commander twitter:description: The South Dakota Governor and Trump VP hopeful suggested that Biden’s bite-prone dog should join the dog she admitted to shooting. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdbe4672ef4016981/698a566a86f68e7e966f5157/commander.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump VP Hopeful Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Be Shot Like Hers > Sponsored content. 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Kristi Noem, who has come under fire in recent days for her admission to killing her misbehaving 14-month-old dog Cricket, has suggested that President Joe Biden’s dog Commander should meet the same fate._  by [Chad de Guzman](https://time.com/author/chad-de-guzman/)  ## Chad de Guzman Reporter Updated: Jan 19, 2026 12:44 PM UTCPublished: May 6, 2024 3:00 AM UTC South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who has come under fire in recent days for her admission to killing her misbehaving 14-month-old dog Cricket, has suggested that President Joe Biden’s dog Commander should meet the same fate.  by [Chad de Guzman](https://time.com/author/chad-de-guzman/)  ## Chad de Guzman Reporter Updated: Jan 19, 2026 12:44 PM UTCPublished: May 6, 2024 3:00 AM UTC South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who has come under fire in recent days for her [admission to killing](https://time.com/6971773/kristi-noem-memoir-dog-kill-children-net-worth/) her misbehaving 14-month-old dog Cricket, has suggested that President Joe Biden’s dog Commander should meet the same fate. In an [interview](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kristi-noem-south-dakota-governor-face-the-nation-transcript-05-05-2024/) on Sunday on _Face the Nation_, Noem, who is [reportedly](https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-vice-president-nominee-candidates-2024-1) a contender to be former President Donald Trump’s running mate in 2024, was asked about a passage in her forthcoming memoir in which she wrote that one of her first priorities if she were at the White House would be to make sure that Commander, Biden’s [bite-prone](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/22/biden-dog-commander-bite-24-agents/) German shepherd, was nowhere on the grounds—and that Commander should “say hello to Cricket.” “Are you doing this to try to look tough?” moderator Margaret Brennan asked Noem. “Joe Biden’s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people,” Noem explained. “So how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog?” Brennan interjected, noting that Commander [no longer lives at the White House](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60EqlpJG3j0), and sought clarification: “You’re saying he should be shot?” But Noem continued without answering, “That’s what the president should be held accountable to…” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a press briefing on Monday that Noem’s insinuation was “disturbing” and “absurd.” “We learned last week, obviously like all of you, in her book that she killed her puppy. You heard me say, that was very, very sad,” Jean-Pierre said. “This is a country that loves dogs, and you have a leader talking about putting dogs down—killing them.” She added that Noem “probably should stop digging herself in a hole.” Noem was also asked on Sunday about other controversial passages, including a line about meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that she has [admitted was false](https://time.com/6974797/kristi-noem-kim-jong-un-book-controversy/), from _No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward_, which is set to be published on May 7. ## Transcript [00:00] Twitter response to Christine Jones comments implying that Commander [00:03] should be put down, you know, when we learned last week. [00:07] I was like all of you and her book that she killed her puppy. [00:11] You heard me say that was very very sad. [00:15] We find her comments from yesterday disturbing we find them [00:22] absurd and and here this is a country that loves dogs and you [00:29] have a leader by talking about putting dogs down killing [00:34] them and that's a disturbing statement to say I would say to I [00:39] would say to her is she's probably should stop digging herself [00:42] in a whole. [00:43] Thanks everybody. 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