January 20, 2026

"The Department of Homeland Security and ICE must start talking about the murderers and other criminals that they are capturing and taking out of the system."

"They are saving many innocent lives! There are thousands of vicious animals in Minnesota alone, which is why the crime stats are, Nationwide, the BEST EVER RECORDED! Show the Numbers, Names, and Faces of the violent criminals, and show them NOW. The people will start supporting the Patriots of ICE, instead of the highly paid troublemakers, anarchists, and agitators! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN"

Writes Trump, just now, on his place called Truth.

He's disarmingly — alarmingly? — open about his rhetorical moves. This will work, do it my way, he says, not in a private phone call or memo to insiders, but to all of us. Perhaps he is saying something else to insiders, but what he is saying openly feels as though he is taking us into his confidence and trusting us to understand that political speech is manipulative and that he's got to do the manipulation in a simple and heavy-handed way and outshout the voices on the other side — those "highly paid troublemakers, anarchists, and agitators."

69 comments:

Mason G said...

"Show the Numbers, Names, and Faces of the violent criminals, and show them NOW."

The fakenews MSM would never do this.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"outshout the voices on the other side"

Well they use a lot of bullhorns, so...

Leland said...

I said this the day of the Good shooting.

I was wrong about the particular incident, because they weren’t trying to make an arrest at the time, just trying to get unstuck from the snow. But Good had been harassing ICE all day, and she was impeding them from arresting people with felony convictions far worse than just entering the country. As far I’m concerned, when these protesters impede ICE in making an arrest, they are intending to aid a fugitive.

gilbar said...

Serious Question:
WHY are white women SO FOND of rapists and pedophiles?
I mean, i can understand them liking voter fraud and wellfare scammers;
('couse those people contribute to the DFL party)
But WHAT is the fondness for sex offenders?
Do the white women hope that They'll be raped?
Or, do they wish that the good looking women get raped instead?

Someone educate poor brain damaged me.
WHAT is the infatuation with sex offenders?

Iman said...

Teh Day of the Skinny Bad Boys!

Mason G said...

"and that he's got to do the manipulation in a simple and heavy-handed way"

"Here (shows list with names/faces and convictions) are the criminals we deported this week" is certainly simple. But heavy-handed? Really?

doctrev said...

The Democrats shouldn't need to go all in on defending habitual criminals. But they do. Life can be vastly improved for everyone, even within blue states, simply by following a non-partisan agenda to get rid of the worst illegal alien scum. But the Rats can't do it.

ChrisC said...

Honestly, the Trump admin is so far up on the high ground on this issue I don't understand why they don't have a better communications strategy. I understand that lefty media is 100% anti-Trump propaganda, but Trump has $1B in campaign funds to get the message out.

rhhardin said...

You throw them out not because they're not nice people but because they're not supposed to be here.

Ronald J. Ward said...

From a strategic standpoint Trump is exactly right, just keep lying and lying and lying about it being about arresting criminals and protecting the Gullibles from the rapists and murderers.

And while you’re at it, remind us how groceries are so cheap that Walmart and Krogers will soon start paying us to haul them off.

n.n said...

Civil liberty and lives of Americans, immigrants, visitors. Emigration reform now.

Original Mike said...

"Life can be vastly improved for everyone, even within blue states, simply by following a non-partisan agenda to get rid of the worst illegal alien scum. But the Rats can't do it."

Not better for democrat politicians and their funders/handlers. All this agitation has to have a source and I can't think of a more obvious one.

doctrev said...

ChrisC said...
Honestly, the Trump admin is so far up on the high ground on this issue I don't understand why they don't have a better communications strategy.

1/20/26, 11:09 AM

President Trump's communication strategy won a presidential election despite 1.7 billion dollars on the other side and an assassination attempt against him. While I would be happy with shuttering the NYT and other traitor media, it is at this time unnecessary. If people solely pay attention to corporat media, that's their own affair.

n.n said...

Antice and Democrazis defenders of illegal alien abortionists, rape... rape-rapists, pedophiles and other affirmative criminal choices.

Quaestor said...

He's not kidding about those insurgents being highly paid. Soros pays them up to $80K per year to disrupt law enforcement.

Matt said...

They could also focus on the fact that ICE has done ops in major urban areas across the country during prime protesting season and not faced anything like MN. In other words, maybe - just maybe - ICE isn’t the problem

rehajm said...

…there’s probably some Hawaiian judge law prohibiting the doxxing of the murderers Democrats added to the voter/welfare rolls…

Quaestor said...

"Emigration reform now."

What reform do you favor? Please be specific.

Just an old country lawyer said...

The most transparent administration ever.

rehajm said...

There’s an add-on strategy that would be highly effective- pitting the Biden illegals against the immigrants that suffered through the process to get here legally. The people I’ve met who did it legally have more venom for the illegals than anyone…

n.n said...

Emigration reform including freeing Venezuela, cooperating with Mexico to curb cartels, black lives matter in Congo, reliable energy in Africa, ending ethnic Springs, human rights not rites, etc.

n.n said...

We have our own cast of criminal conceptions. We shouldn't share responsibility with collateral damage.

Clyde said...

Trump is the remedy for the lying, dishonest, manipulative liberal media. It's been a great year and I look forward to the next three.

Jamie said...

I'm pretty sure the story is apocryphal, and I can't even remember who it's about, but remember the thing about the writer who woke up in the middle of the night with an absolutely incandescent thought and scribbled it down in the dark so it wouldn't be lost to humankind, and in the morning it turned out to be "Hogamus higamus, men are polygamous. Higamus hogamus, women monogamous"? So, not as incandescent as he thought, but true nonetheless?

I think I had a moment like that last night, when in the wee hours I awoke thinking, "It's because they don't have abortion to kick around anymore."

paminwi said...

Telling the world who you deporting is NOT HEAVY HANDED!
If our host was 40 years old would she one of the white liberal women out there protesting?
There was a video outa few days ago where an ICE agent was leaning out his window saying to protesters “we”re on our way to get a child molester.Are you going to get in our way? Cuz that’s who try to arrest.”
The biased media only share what they consider to be screw ups and not who is actually being arrested. To counter that bias it needs to be plastered “heavy handedly” (😂😂😂) all over Facebook, X and TikTok.
(Maybe we can see the TikTok if our host has the inclination to post it.)

john mosby said...

Noem should include some obvious non aliens in the rogues gallery. Like some Trump followers who’ll play along: Dana Perino, Rob Schneider, etc. Then sit back as the MSM is forced to verify all the real ones. CC, JSM

hawkeyedjb said...

Ronald J. Ward sounds exactly like my Minnesota relatives. ICE doesn't arrest criminals, they're all peaceful, innocent, hard-working people! Nobody should be deported! We want EVERY ONE of these to stay in this country:

-Sriudorn Phaivan, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of strong-arm sodomy of a boy & strong-arm sodomy of a girl with a deportation order since 2018
-Hernan Cortes-Valencia, Mexican illegal alien convicted of sexual assault of a child and DUI with a deportation order since 2016
-Abdirashid Adosh Elmi, a Somalian illegal alien convicted of homicide
-Mariana Sia Kanu, an illegal alien from Sierra Leone convicted of two counts of homicide with a deportation order since 2022
-Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed, a Somalian illegal alien convicted of manslaughter with a deportation order since 2022
-Mongong Dual Maniang Deng, a Sudanese illegal alien convicted of attempt to commit homicide, weapon possession, and DUI

...and on, and on, and on. Yes, they actually do want these people here.

Jamie said...

The most transparent administration ever.

That was what I was thinking when our host expressed alarm. I'd certainly rather know than not know.

n.n said...

A minority elect democratic gerrymandering, labor arbitrage, and tolerate collateral damage with planned choices.

n.n said...
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n.n said...

Americans, immigrants, and visitors should be comforted that the administration is neither Diverse nor equivocal nor inimical with legislative enforcement operations.

bagoh20 said...

If we just had one journalist somewhere to tell us stuff, so the President didn't have to do that job too.
There is video of the media (CNN) accompanying ICE as they capture criminal illegals during the Obama administration. They clearly approved of their heroic work then.

Obama increased the ICE budget 300%, established a nationwide network of detention centers and expanded the 'secure communities' enforcement program from 14 counties under Bush Jr to all 3,181 jurisdictions in America. ~ Grok confirmed.
I don't know what happened to the Democrats from back then, but they seem to have left the country, and the media.

bagoh20 said...

All of our pearl clutchers here would have supported ICE under Obama doing the exact same thing. They would be supporting them now if Harris won regardless of if they were catching criminals or running ferries across the Rio Grand. It doesn't matter what they do, it's who is in charge that makes it right wrong for them.
I doubt there was a single protestor when Obama was doing it. The Right favored it then as now, because the Right's position is based on principles not politics.

Marcus Bressler said...

You cannot win the hearts and minds of Leftist because they have neither.

gilbar said...

Serious Question for Ronald J. Ward...
how long, for YOU is long enough on a deportation order to be deported?
is a deportation order since 2022 long enough?
is a deportation order since 2016 long enough?
could YOU please tell US, how long YOU consider being on a deportation order to be a valid reason for deportation?
IS THERE A NUMBER (for YOU)? If so, please provide it;
thanx!

bagoh20 said...

The truth can cure TDS, but you have to take the medicine every day.

bagoh20 said...

" ...how long YOU consider being on a deportation order to be a valid reason for deportation?"

I think the answer is obvious.
It's valid as soon as a Democrat is President.

Readering said...

Trump needs to publicly tell ICE in MN to stop seizimg people based on non-white appearance, espcially people not illegals. We'll see whar the statistics on violent criminals taken turns out to be.

Quaestor said...

"...cooperating with Mexico to curb cartels"

A forlorn hope at best given the incentives the Mexican government has not to cooperate in impeding the cartels in any manner.

Quaestor said...

Don't ever make sense, Readering. I don't take well to apoplexy.

Jamie said...

A forlorn hope at best given the incentives the Mexican government has not to cooperate in impeding the cartels in any manner.

If only the cartels were stationary and not entangled in Mexican government - they truly are a "Pull back and nuke then from orbit - it's the only way to be sure" moment. Has there ever been a more vicious and barbaric set of enemies? Based on its size, population, resources - Mexico ought to be a first-world powerhouse, but instead it's always teetering on the brink of failed state status.

Big Mike said...

gilbar said...

Serious Question:
WHY are white women SO FOND of rapists and pedophiles?
I mean, i can understand them liking voter fraud and wellfare scammers


Well, first of all — as I’ve mentioned before — they’re having fun. You’d think there’d be some cognitive dissonance once they learn whom they’re trying to protect, but upthread Ronnie award gives the game away: lies, all lies, lies piled on more lies. Meanwhile it’s fun running around honking horns and blowing whistles and basically making a pest of yourself. And if a bunch of you could surround some poor schnook of a white guy just minding his own business and trying to earn a living so he can feed his family, and put the guy in fear of a beat-down or even losing his life, well that’s 2 inch thick butter cream frosting on top of that cake.

Secondly, the idea — dutifully pushed by Althouse, among many, many others — that women tend to be naturally empathetic is bunk. Nothing but a hoax. Yes there are empathetic, yes, and there are empathetic men. However the ‘A’ in AWFL stands for “affluent,” and since the predatory criminal immigrants generally prey upon the working poor and lower middle class, the likes of Hillary Oppmann are very well aware that they are exceptionally unlikely to have to deal with the consequences of helping the criminals escape justice.

G. Poulin said...

People ---particularly the elite progressivist ruling class-- will continue to support the troublemakers, anarchists, and agitators no matter what. Because that's the false religion of the elites, and the terrorists are their saints.

Milwaukie guy said...

"Stop seizing people based on non-white appearance...." Readering: Of the 10-12 million who swarmed our border during the Biden regime, what percentage do you think were "white" people? My guess would be <1%. You?

Big Mike said...

The one sentence in my comment above should read “Yes there are empathetic women, just as there are empathetic men.”

Meanwhile, I was going to ask about grocery prices. Upthread Ronnie Ward was complaining about the price of groceries at Walmart and Kroger. Wife and I do not shop from groceries at the local Walmart and I don’t think there’s a Kroger snywhere near here, but prices on average have been down in the local Martin’s (a subsidiary of Giant) for a year, ever since Trump’s inauguration. Are we really lucky out here in the Shenandoah Valley? Or is Ronnie full of shit, as usual?

Dave Begley said...

My youngest daughter is a senior at the highly-ranked University of Minnesota law school. To think that she is living amongst such hardened criminals is very frightening to me.

bagoh20 said...

Trump needs to publicly tell ICE in MN to stop seizimg people based on non-white appearance, espcially people not illegals.

If ICE was 100% minority cops, or somehow were unable to tell a person's race, they would still be picking up less white people, because the majority of criminal illegals are not white. They also would sometimes get a few people wrong, but so far it seems like that's a surprisingly low number, that seem to block the view of people on the left so they can't see anything else. It's not intellectually honest to expect no mistakes in 330,000 apprehensions so far.

Big Mike said...

@Milwaukie Guy, all non-white people look alike to Readering, and he assumes it works that way for the rest of us, too.

bagoh20 said...

" To think that she is living amongst such hardened criminals is very frightening to me."

I think the good part is that as long as the criminal is not an illegal alien, the local police will probably keep them locked up. Probably.

Iman said...

“If our host was 40 years old would she one of the white liberal women out there protesting?”

No, she’s too attractive and about 106 lbs too light for that.

Big Mike said...

Meanwhile I see that Don Lemon is defending himself on grounds that the congregation consists of all “white supremacists.” So attending church services on Sunday is a mark of “white suprrmacy”? I wonder what Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have said about that?

Beasts of England said...

The wholesale price of a dozen eggs is $0.40, the lowest in seven years. But the huge price increase of Schwinn children’s bike helmets could easily derail our economy. Stupid Trump!!

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

That received idea that every president is the same regardless of party and ideology has to be shelved out of sight.

Rustygrommet said...

Or is Ronnie full of shit, as usual?

Ronnie the psychopath (like his namesake) is trying to convince you that he is normal and reasonable. But he's a psychopath. So he's going to lie. All psychopaths lie.

Ronald J. Ward said...

Gilbar @ 11:51, to your distracting question, I’m all for deporting migrant criminals, on day one preferably.

I’m just saying that doesn’t seem to be the priority of Trump’s fascists secret police force.

Achilles said...

Readering said...
Trump needs to publicly tell ICE in MN to stop seizimg people based on non-white appearance, espcially people not illegals. We'll see whar the statistics on violent criminals taken turns out to be.

I agree.

I.C.E. needs to arrest all of the people that are impeding law enforcement and hand the citizens over to the FBI so they can be charged with treason and conspiracy to commit treason.

Achilles said...

Ronald J. Ward said...
Gilbar @ 11:51, to your distracting question, I’m all for deporting migrant criminals, on day one preferably.

I’m just saying that doesn’t seem to be the priority of Trump’s fascists secret police force

There is nothing secret about it.

We are going to arrest and deport illegal foreigners.

We should be arresting and charging the traitors who are committing crimes giving the foreign nationals aid and support as they attack our country.

Mr. T. said...

Ronald J. PsychoWard said...
Gilbar @ 11:51, to your distracting question, I’m all for deporting migrant criminals, on day one preferably.

Then why were you defending convicted felon, Hanah Duggan?

john mosby said...

Big Mike: " So attending church services on Sunday is a mark of “white suprrmacy”? I wonder what Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have said about that?"

Isn't MLK the source of the classic "11AM on Sunday is the most segregated hour in America?"

Or maybe that's a post-King phenomenon - that's the only place and time we can self-segregate anymore.

Anyway, both sides of the Cities Church incident look mostly white in the video. The church itself is smack dab in the middle of St Paul, just off the campus of Macalester College. I don't know enough about MSP to tell if it's a gentrified neighborhood, or if the parishioners aren't afraid of the inner city (being right next to a hoity-toity college is no guarantee of safety - see, eg, Columbia/Uptown, Yale/New Haven). The pastor/ICE employee looks and sounds a bit Hispanic. Guess he's one of those evil white Hispanics. CC, JSM

jim said...

Yes, he's correct, if DHS is removing the "worst of the worst" they should provide details and numbers, not just hype.

Hassayamper said...

Secondly, the idea — dutifully pushed by Althouse, among many, many others — that women tend to be naturally empathetic is bunk. Nothing but a hoax.

I saw a story today, maybe on Insty, reporting that women approve of political assassinations at a significantly higher rate than men.

Mason G said...

Meanwhile I see that Don Lemon is defending himself on grounds that the congregation consists of all “white supremacists.”

I'd bet Don Lemon doesn't know who all the people there are, or whether or not they are white supremacists. But let's roll with it anyway and suppose, for a moment, that they all are. Then what? It's not illegal to be a white supremacist, is it?

Kakistocracy said...

ICE is not the Gestapo. The people who joined the Gestapo had other job options.

Leland said...

jim said...
Yes, he's correct, if DHS is removing the "worst of the worst" they should provide details and numbers, not just hype.


Here you go

Nancy Reyes said...

highly trained outsiders? Gee, someone must have actually traced the money behind the protests, so why isn't this noted by the MSM?

Kirk Parker said...

Leland,

I accuse DHS of misandry -- on the first page of bad guys, there isn't a single woman.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

In truth, there are more illegal aliens in some Red States than in Minnesota. 🤫
And it totally makes sense; they go where the jobs are.

Rustygrommet said...

Except, Lem, they are being arrested with the help of the local authorities.

Rustygrommet said...

Kakistocracy said...
"ICE is not the Gestapo. The people who joined the Gestapo had other job options."

I only ask this because I'll never know. Most of the good people here will never know either.
You may not be able to answer this question and if not we'll all understand. Your vocabulary might not be up to it.
What's it like being stupid?

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