President Donald Trump is now openly threatening “retribution” against the people of Minnesota—because they’re upset that an ICE agent shot and killed a mother of three at point-blank range.
In an early morning Truth Social tirade, the 79-year-old president promised Minnesotans that “THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!” after state officials sued to stop federal immigration agents from flooding into their state following the fatal shooting of Renee Good.
WHAT’S GOING ON: Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother, was shot three times at close range last week by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. The Trump administration immediately tried to paint her as a “domestic terrorist” who deliberately tried to run over the agent with her car. One problem: video footage from the scene shows her attempting to drive away, not attack anyone.
The killing sparked nationwide anti-ICE protests. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey demanded ICE “get the f**k out” of his city. And on Monday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit declaring the Trump administration’s surge of federal agents into the state unconstitutional.
Trump’s response? To threaten the entire state.
THE DETAILS: In his post, Trump questioned whether Minnesotans “really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums.”
He praised “the patriots of ICE” and accused “Minnesota Democrats” of loving “the unrest that anarchists and professional agitators are causing.”
Ellison’s lawsuit alleges that Trump specifically targeted Minnesota as part of “Operation Metro Surge” because the state is governed by Democrats and has never supported Trump in any presidential campaign. The state estimates that Minneapolis police logged over 3,000 overtime hours—costing taxpayers more than $2 million—in just four days due to ICE’s “reckless and aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.”
“The unlawful deployment of thousands of armed, masked, and poorly trained federal agents is hurting Minnesota,” Ellison said. “People are being racially profiled, harassed, terrorized, and assaulted. Schools have gone into lockdown. Businesses have been forced to close.”
WHY IT MATTERS: The President of the United States is publicly threatening “retribution” against American citizens for objecting to federal agents killing an unarmed mother. He’s framing the death of Renee Good—and the entirely reasonable outrage that followed—as justification for even more aggressive federal action.
That’s not law enforcement. That’s collective punishment. And Trump isn’t even pretending otherwise anymore.