On a trip to Vermont following the fatal shooting of a US Border Patrol agent, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem visited the Haskell, where she stepped up to the electrical tape and, with a grin, parroted Trump's taunts while standing on the Canadian side of the line, according to Converse and Deborah Bishop, the library's executive director. "She stood on the American side and said, USA No. 1.' Then she crossed the line and said, The 51st state,'" Bishop said. "She did it at least three times and was very clear in saying, USA No. 1,' and didn't even say Canada.' Just, The 51st state.' " Bishop and other library staff members are Canadian. Converse, who is a US citizen, felt Noem's performance was humiliating. "I was angry," Converse said. "Politics should not come into this, you know? This is unique in the world, and it's always been a community that was welcoming."