Comedian Jay Leno said certain people believe he should get a girlfriend to keep him company as his wife of 45 years, Mavis, battles dementia. The former host of “The Tonight Show” discussed what he’s been hearing during a recent episode of the “Life Above the Noise with Maria Shriver” podcast. “I’ve said this a bunch of times: you take a vow when you get married — and people are stunned … they’re so shocked that you would live up to it,” Leno said. Mavis was diagnosed with dementia in 2024 and Leno was granted a conservatorship in April of that year. “My favorite thing was … and this is the most Hollywood thing. A guy said to me, ‘So, are you gonna get a girlfriend now?’” the 75-year-old comedian said. Leno said he responded by saying, “Well no, I have a girlfriend. I’m married. Been married 45 years.” The person apparently pushed back, saying, “Yeah, but you know what I mean.” Leno went on to marvel at how people’s views on marriage have changed over the years. “No, we’re kinda in this together here,” he recalls saying. “Honey, I’ll be with my girlfriend! I’ll be back later,” he joked. Leno said people now aren’t used to “just doing the right thing because you’re supposed to.” “That used to be the norm, and then when you strayed, that was the out-of-whack part. Now the out-of-whack part is fairly common, and staying and doing what you’re supposed to do is stunning to people,” Leno told Shriver. “We kind of made a deal.” “This is that thing of, ‘Okay, you’ve been pretty lucky up to this point. It’s been easy sailing. This is where it gets a little tricky,’” the former late night host added. “I’m glad I’m passing the test. Because you never quite know what you’re going to do in that situation. So I like to think I made the right decision.”

Just months after California was rocked by violent anti-ICE riots, California Governor Gavin Newsom claims that his state “cooperates” with federal immigration authorities. Newsom made the statement during an interview with the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, who pressed him on California’s sanctuary state status and his history of anti-ICE rhetoric. Most recently, Newsom’s press office suggested that the shooting of a woman driving her car toward an ICE agent in Minneapolis was “state-sponsored terrorism.” “We work very directly with ICE as it relates to [California prisons]. California has cooperated with more ICE transfers than probably any other state in the country. And I’ve vetoed multiple pieces of legislation that have come from my legislature to stop the ability for the state of California to do that,” Newsom said. “
So when it comes to the issues of violent criminals, when it comes to felons, people that are being released from the largest state system in the United States of America, California cooperates with ICE,” he added. While Newsom told Shapiro that California prisons had handed over 10,000 illegal alien felons to ICE, the data during his tenure as governor tell a different story. .@GavinNewsom REFUSES to tell @benshapiro if he thinks boys can become girls: Shapiro: “The fundamental question…is the question that you’re not wanting to answer, which is whether boys can become girls.” Newsom: “Yeah…I think…I’m for the grace of God…Yeah.” pic.twitter.com/Lse5fNw3SY — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 16, 2026 According to the Center for Immigration Studies, from October 1, 2022, to February 6, 2025, 52% of all ICE detainers — requests for local law enforcement to hold illegals arrested for crimes — were in California. The total number was over 13,000, well over the next highest total of 2,946 (Illinois). Newsom also talked tough on handing over violent offenders, but during that same time, law enforcement in his state released at least 29 illegals facing homicide charges or convictions. Additionally, local law enforcement have pointed to state sanctuary city policies for hamstringing their ability to reach out to ICE when they arrest illegal aliens for crimes. During his interview with Shapiro, Newsom admitted that it was a “fair” criticism to knock his press office for accusing ICE of committing terrorism and criticized calls from fellow Democrats to completely abolish the agency. Newsom’s admission came after Shapiro told him his office accusing ICE of terrorism “makes our politics worse” and “our ICE officers are obviously not terrorists.” After the Minneapolis shooting, Newsom claimed that ICE was acting as President Donald Trump’s “personal police force” and had “rampaged” America. “His administration has driven extremism and cruelty while discarding basic safeguards and accountability,” Newsom claimed. “His reckless crackdown must end.” In September, Newsom signed legislation aimed at barring ICE officers from wearing masks while they conduct operations. The bill came as ICE officers have faced a surge in harassment, assaults, and violent threats. That law came after Los Angeles was rocked by violent riots as law enforcement officers were attacked and vehicles were burned after ICE started conducting operations in the area. The riots prompted President Trump to send in the National Guard to protect federal operations. Newsom claimed that the move was “purposefully inflammatory” and would “erode public trust.” Those riots ended up costing more than $30 million, including more than $1.4 million in property damage.

The following is an edited transcript from The Michael Knowles Show. * * * The Left can’t let the transgender issue go away. They were clobbered on it last November. They’ve been losing on it for years. Conservatives won the argument, decisively — and yet the Left keeps dragging it back into the spotlight. Now they’re pushing cases all the way to the Supreme Court under the guise of “defending girls’ sports,” even as the Court is actively weighing a major transgender-related case. That context matters, because it’s why a recent Senate hearing landed the way it did. During a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing focused on abortion drugs, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), one of the best to ever do it, grilled Democrat witness Dr. Nisha Verma, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, on the question that has dominated American politics for the past five years. The exchange, which quickly went viral, revolved around a simple inquiry: “Can men get pregnant?” SPOILER ALERT: Men cannot get pregnant pic.twitter.com/08JwHUlxIj — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) January 14, 2026 Hawley is so good at this. This question is just another version of “What is a Woman?” It’s another way of asking whether men can become women. It should be a layup for the Left. All they have to say is: “No, men cannot become pregnant.” They could even try to weasel out of it. They could say something about “trans men” or redefine terms in the usual bureaucratic way. Any halfway competent liberal operative would recognize that this issue is pure political poison and dodge it immediately.  But they can’t. The transgender issue may be the single biggest loser for the Left in my lifetime — possibly even more damaging than their insistence on flooding the country with foreign criminals. And yet they refuse to abandon it. Not because it’s culturally edgy or titillating, but because it represents the inescapable conclusion of their entire political project. Conservatives sometimes understate what’s actually going on here. We describe transgenderism as a natural outgrowth of gay marriage, gay rights, or feminism — movements that insist men and women are fundamentally the same. That’s part of the story, but it doesn’t go deep enough. The reason Republicans and conservatives keep hammering this issue — and the reason the Left cannot give it up — is because it strikes at the core of liberalism itself. At its heart, liberalism is about maximizing individual autonomy. That idea goes back centuries. The seed of liberalism says: I am primarily an individual, and I will control everything. I will control my destiny, my traditions, my morality, my religion, my history, and even my country. And eventually, I will liberate myself from my own body. That is the culmination. WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show It took centuries to get here. First, we had to liberate ourselves from the king. Then from the Church. Then from the family, through the liberalization of divorce. Then from history, through radical revisionism. Then from the nation, through the collapse of patriotism. Then from the moral order, especially in matters of sex. And finally, liberation from biological reality itself. Liberalism is not complete until the body is treated as irrelevant. Which brings us, inevitably, to St. Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas identified the idea underlying transgenderism — that the body has nothing to do with who we really are — as one of the oldest and most dangerous heresies. The belief that I am born male but am really female, and therefore my body is wrong or bad, is not new. It appears in ancient heresies like Gnosticism and Docetism, which treated matter as corrupt and the physical world as a mistake. Aquinas argued that these were the worst heresies of all, because they directly deny the central truth of Christianity: the Incarnation — that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. So it should not surprise us that modern liberalism, which often functions as an inversion of Christianity, would culminate in precisely this heresy. A political philosophy built on autonomy over reality eventually arrives at the rejection of the body itself. That’s why the Left can’t walk away from this issue, no matter how badly it hurts them politically. It isn’t just another policy debate. It’s the logical endpoint of their worldview.

The negative portrayal of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents by Democrats is leading to violence in the streets, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned on Thursday after The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan asked her about rising unrest. Leavitt showed a picture of a CNN chyron that read: “Protests Erupt After Federal Agent Shoots Man In Minneapolis.” “That’s not the story,” Leavitt said. ?@PressSec goes OFF on the MSM and Democrats for demonizing ICE agents: “I would encourage everyone in this room, and I would encourage Gov. Walz and other Democrats who are demeaning law enforcement to sit down and have a cup of coffee with an ICE agent… The Democrat party… pic.twitter.com/AB7SIjKgdB — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 15, 2026 To learn the real story, Leavitt urged Americans to turn to the Department of Homeland Security’s statement. “This ICE agent was executing a targeted operation against a Venezuelan illegal alien who was unlawfully present in this country,” Leavitt said. “When this ICE agent tried to detain the individual, three more of his comrades came rushing out of the house and started ambushing and attacking the ICE agent. They used a shovel or a broom to smash his face in, and so yes, that agent had to use self-defense and take up his weapon to protect his own life.” The press secretary reiterated that ICE agents and law enforcement are enforcing the country’s immigration laws while “elected officials are encouraging violence” against “our brave men and women in law enforcement.” “Democratic governors and mayors” were not the only targets of Leavitt; the press secretary had a fiery exchange with a reporter who brought up Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s comment that ICE agents “are doing everything correctly.” The reporter asked Leavitt, given that Renee Good was shot in the head, how ICE agents could be doing “everything correctly.” Leavitt first responded with a question, asking the reporter: “Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?” The reporter answered, “Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably?” .@PressSec absolutely nukes a Fake News loser: “You’re a left-wing hack. You’re not a reporter. You’re posing in this room as a journalist… You and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you’re a journalist — you shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat.” pic.twitter.com/ebZzHj7hPs — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 15, 2026 Leavitt responded, “Oh, okay, so you’re a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion. … Do you have the numbers of how many American citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens who ICE is trying to remove from this country? I bet you don’t. Shame on you and the people of the media who have a crooked and biased view.” She then encouraged Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and other Democrats “who are demeaning law enforcement to sit down and have a cup of coffee with an ICE agent or a border patrol agent.” “These are great, patriotic men and women who have families who put on the uniform every day and are following our nation’s immigration laws at the direction of their bosses, and again at the direction of the law. They are simply trying to enforce the law and the Democrat Party has demeaned these individuals; they have even referred to them as Nazis and as the Gestapo.” Leavitt said it is that very rhetoric that is “absolutely leading to the violence we are seeing in the streets.”

Maybe it was just another Wednesday evening for you, but last night was basically the Super Bowl for Left-wing agitators — particularly the Subaru drivers, the Reddit addicts, and the otherwise “neurodivergent” and perpetually unemployed residents of the state of Minnesota. They were all glued to their televisions. That’s because, in a live primetime television address, the governor of the state, Tim Walz, gave everyone their marching orders for how to deal with the fact that ICE is enforcing immigration law in their neighborhoods, which the majority of Americans voted for in the last free and open democratic election. For many days now, Walz has basically been preparing the entire state for their “Fort Sumter” moment. He’s been priming Minnesota to go to war with the federal government. And last night, he took the stage. Now, at the outset, you might be thinking that it’s very unfortunate (to put it mildly) that the state of Minnesota is taking marching orders related to immigration enforcement from a governor who’s just been implicated in a scheme to defraud the taxpayers to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars — a fraud scheme that primarily involves foreigners who have no right to live in this country. Indeed, that might even seem like a severe conflict of interest. The foreigners come in here, steal from the taxpayer, enrich Tim Walz’s associates and benefit his political party. And now he’s leading the charge to keep these illegal foreigners inside the country.  But in Minnesota, none of this is a problem. They all eagerly awaited the serious, somber speech from Tim Walz. You’ll notice something a little strange about the audio in this clip, just know it’s not you. And here’s how it went: ? BREAKING: BRUTAL FAILURE for Tim Walz’s high-stakes “live address” about ICE in Minnesota You can’t even hear what he’s saying, there are 2 voices saying different things! RESIGN, TIM! You are not only criminally complicit but GROSSLY INCOMPETENT! pic.twitter.com/4QWvJ9DUoq — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 15, 2026 Credit: @EricLDaugh/X.com You might have noticed that someone else was talking in the background there. That’s not something we added in post-production. It’s an echo of Tim Walz’s voice that came through during the live broadcast. And obviously, that’s not ideal. It kind of undercuts the intended vibe of recreating the Gettysburg Address because, if I remember my history right, Lincoln wasn’t being drowned out with crosstalk the entire time. Also, unlike the Gettysburg address, in this speech, Walz made a series of claims that were completely made up. We’re talking about total fabrications without even a hint of evidence to support them. He’s claiming ICE is “ordering” people to point out where their “neighbors of color” live, which has never happened. Walz wants you to imagine that ICE will come banging on your door and shout, “Where are the brown people?” And you’ll shake in fear, hoping they don’t discover the Mexicans hiding in your attic. Of course, if you aren’t retarded, it’s impossible to imagine this scenario. But Tim Walz is speaking, rather specifically, to a retarded audience. He calls the agents “untrained,” even though every single one of them is actually well-trained. He says they’re pulling over and kidnapping people indiscriminately, which has also never happened — not once. He calls ICE operations an “occupation,” which it isn’t. He says ICE is demanding to “see the papers” of U.S. citizens, which, in addition to being false, doesn’t really make sense. The implication is that, if a citizen isn’t carrying their “papers,” then ICE will deport them or something. But that’s never happened either. So Walz is merely repeating, without any evidence whatsoever, the various fictional claims that Democrat mobs have concocted in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. This is always what Leftists do in situations like this. Usually, we see this kind of behavior when they’re trying to canonize the latest BLM martyr. They simply lie, endlessly, because they recognize the fundamental weakness of their actual position. (In this case, their actual position is that they want open borders). They know that’s indefensible. They know most Americans don’t want open borders — and they know that Minnesota’s sanctuary laws are forcing ICE to go into neighborhoods to detain these criminals, rather than make arrests at courthouses and jails. So rather than defend their sanctuary open-border policies, they’re lying, relentlessly. They’re trying to rile people up and encourage violence against ICE officers — which is exactly what happened shortly after Walz delivered that speech. They want more and more violence between the state and the federal government, because that’s how civil wars start. That’s how they intend to destroy our constitutional system of government. But the really interesting thing about that Walz clip isn’t the fact that he lied, or repeated dumb Reddit talking points. The really interesting thing is that he looks and sounds like such a weasel. Even if you don’t listen to a word he says — even if you play his speech without volume — it’s impossible to ignore that he comes across like an extremely weak-willed, flimsy little man. He seems like, and he is, a pathetic sissy — a spineless, effeminate, scheming little weakling. And of course, as we’ve seen again and again, this is a common phenotype on the Left, and it’s been on display, repeatedly, during these anti-ICE riots. The Left is governed by, and consists of, an army of shrieking, unpleasant liars who are viscerally unappealing, on a physical level. They’re not remotely authentic or believable as human beings. These are politicians who will say whatever their masters want them to say. They’ll lie, as a matter of course, in ways that no sane person would take seriously. They’ll compare federal law enforcement officials to the Gestapo — not because they think it’s true, but because they think it will work. They think that, when they hear these attacks, conservatives will back down. And they think that, if they lie enough and berate ICE officers enough, then the Trump administration will pull ICE out of Minneapolis. But it’s to Donald Trump’s credit that, for the first time in generations, this strategy doesn’t work anymore. Instead, in response to Left-wing obstruction and domestic terrorism in Minneapolis, Trump is sending thousands more ICE officers into the city. He’s not pulling back, even as Leftists become increasingly unhinged and violent. And that’s the only workable approach. You simply cannot allow violent mobs to suspend the results of a democratic election, which is exactly what the self-described “party of democracy” is attempting to do here. They know that most Americans voted to preserve our borders and our national sovereignty. They know that most Americans voted for mass deportations. And now Leftists in Minnesota are trying to reverse the results of a democratic election using mob violence, which is what communists always do. And they usually win, unless they’re crushed. Last night, just like Renee Good, some of these communists in Minnesota again turned to violence. As you’ve probably heard, there was yet another ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis. According to DHS, around 6:50 PM, ICE was attempting to stop an illegal alien from Venezuela who was released into the country by Joe Biden in 2022. The illegal alien fled in his car, then crashed into a parked car before running away on foot. When law enforcement caught up with him, the illegal alien began attacking the officers. Then two individuals (apparently family members of the illegal alien) came out of a nearby apartment and began ambushing the officers with a snow shovel and a broom handle. Then the illegal alien got free and joined in on the attack. That’s when the officer fired shots to defend himself. At this point, everyone’s expected to live, and the attackers are now in custody. It’s another clear-cut, justified shooting by law enforcement. And it’s yet another sign that, sooner or later, Democrats are going to get ICE officers killed or seriously injured. That’s what they want to happen. And when that happens, there will be a showdown over who exactly controls the National Guard in Minnesota, and whether the Army needs to be brought in. That’s where this is headed. That’s why these people are harassing ICE in such large numbers. This was the scene after the shooting yesterday. The mob formed immediately. They began destroying law enforcement vehicles and stealing firearms and documents from inside those vehicles. They also berated law enforcement. It was like a scene out of Fallujah. Watch: MUST WATCH: Approaching midnight, Law enforcement vehicle being raided and laptops destroyed, notebooks taken, vests looted All while “organizers” continue encouraging everyone to put their phones down. END THIS NOW!! pic.twitter.com/KTfVPjx4EQ — Human Events (@HumanEvents) January 15, 2026 Credit: @HumanEvents/X.com ? BREAKING: Minneapolis rioters successfully BROKE OPEN a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and STOLE A RIFLE and ammunition before fleeing I captured the thief’s face and license plate on the getaway vehicle. PLEASE SHARE and HELP IDENTIFY this POS. I have forwarded this… pic.twitter.com/7rwfIsN7v6 — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 15, 2026 Credit: @nicksortor/X.com ? BREAKING: HEAVILY DHS response to the scene of ICE-involved shooting in North Minneapolis after a target attempted to attack an agent with a shovel DO NOT BACK DOWN, ICE. PATRIOTS HAVE YOUR BACKS! ?? pic.twitter.com/tYvD5kQxVh — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 15, 2026 Credit: @nicksortor/X.com The level of projection in those taunts is pretty apparent. But as pathetic as they are, these people are managing to do real damage. As you just saw, they stole weapons from outside the back of the ICE vehicle. But they also took more than that. Late last night, various Antifa livestreams revealed that these domestic terrorists have obtained a significant amount of documentation from inside the ICE vehicles that were left behind as the mob surrounded them. Specifically, according to these livestreams, they’ve obtained the full names of many ICE agents, the location of the hotels they’re staying in, including the room numbers, and so on. They’ve also obtained FBI badges and badge numbers. And they’re broadcasting it all over the internet. This is, unequivocally, domestic terrorism. We need to see prosecutions and crackdowns, as soon as possible, for everyone sharing this information. The residents of Minnesota are waging a campaign of terrorism against federal law enforcement, which is carrying out lawful orders. Thousands more federal agents need to be sent to Minneapolis, at a minimum. That’s what sane Americans want to see — the restoration of law and order. And indeed, that appears to be what’s coming next. Federal Bureau of Prisons guards have been deployed to control the riot and protect DHS agents in North Minneapolis. The residents of this state are completely out of control.pic.twitter.com/13eqqMnoNc — Kim “Katie” USA (@KimKatieUSA) January 15, 2026 Credit: @KimKatieUSA/X.com Within minutes of the shooting, federal Bureau of Prisons guards were on the scene, keeping the agitators at bay and preventing ICE from being overwhelmed. They prevented ICE agents from being dragged away by the mob and murdered. They apparently weren’t able to prevent some ICE vehicles from being looted, but they prevented any loss of life. Fox also reported that ICE’s Special Response Team — their SWAT team, essentially — deployed as well.  So this was a unified, immediate response to flood the area with manpower. And very soon, we can expect many more federal agents in Minneapolis, because the population is clearly out of control. They’ve gone full Canada up in Minneapolis, and they need to be dealt with. All of their screeching and whining needs to be ignored. Minneapolis has been ground zero for lawless chaos for years now. The rest of us are sick of it. The whole city must be taught a lesson. It must be punished. It’s a city full of overgrown children that won’t learn anything unless they’re forced to learn it the hard way. These are also, we should note, some of the most annoying assholes to ever walk the Earth. Here’s Exhibit number 10 million. Watch: I could watch these all day pic.twitter.com/H3iFD6Umdq — William Wolfe ?? (@WilliamWolfe) January 15, 2026 Credit: @WilliamWolfe/X.com If shrieking, unpleasant Leftist women like this lose their power, the Left is in real trouble. They’ve spent the past decade in HR offices all over the country, berating young men, discriminating against them, hounding them, and scolding them. The appropriate response has always been to treat these women with maximum contempt. And now that’s happening, more and more, across this country. The White House seems to recognize that, which is why they’re surging more officers to deal with these harpies. Credit: RealClear Politics Again, a decisive approach is what most Americans want to see. Most Americans support the Trump administration, and they’re repulsed by communists running rampant on the streets. And we know that because, right now, Donald Trump has a higher approval rating than either Bush or Obama did, at this particular date in their second terms. If you watch these videos from Minneapolis, you’d think the mob represents the way a lot of people think in this country. But it doesn’t. Take a look at this: The latest generic congressional ballot, per Reuters/Ipsos, suggests that there won’t be a Blue Wave in November, with a roughly 40-40 split between Democrats and Republicans.  And if you look at the latest map from the Cook Political Report, you’ll see there are around 210 safe Republican seats, 208 safe Democrat seats, and 17 tossups. These are projections that, if they hold up, foreclose the possibility of a “Blue Wave” election for Democrats. Meanwhile, just the other day, in a special election in the Alabama state house, Republican Norman Crow won by a margin of 29 points. Trump, for comparison, won the district by 18 points in 2024. The usual caveats apply — it was a special election with low turnout in a safe district — but it’s the kind of election that still demonstrates enthusiasm for the Republican Party and the direction the Trump administration is taking it. And why not? Most Americans are not dysgenic, unemployed freaks. They don’t want Venezuelans and lesbian agitators to murder federal law enforcement officers. They don’t want 68-IQ Somalis to scam hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers. They want our laws enforced, including immigration laws. And they don’t want the federal deficit to continue increasing exponentially, which the Trump administration has also taken action to correct. As CNBC just reported, in the first three months of the fiscal year, from October to December, the deficit has dropped by more than $100 billion. That’s a 15% year-over-year drop. These are all tangible achievements that have a meaningful impact in the lives of millions of Americans. We’ve already talked about how Democrats are descending further and further into delusion. They’re whipping themselves into hysterics about things that simply aren’t happening. They’re play-acting. And the reason that they’re becoming more and more hysterical, with each passing day, is that the Trump administration isn’t giving them what they want. Instead, Trump is literally giving the middle finger to hecklers, on camera. Trump flicks off a ford employee ??? ?? pic.twitter.com/TahKD99aha — Jaypatriot????? (@realjaypatriot) January 13, 2026 Credit: @realjaypatriot/X.com He just oversaw a successful operation to depose a foreign dictator and return American oil to the American economy. Meanwhile, the State Department just announced that it’s halting all visa processing from 75 countries “whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates.” That list includes Somalia, Iran, and Haiti. At the same time, Trump is openly mocking Denmark as he plots to take control of Greenland, which Denmark claims to have some control over. And within hours of Trump making fun of his country, Denmark’s foreign minister backed down and suggested there might be a way forward for a deal. Watch: Trump on Greenland: I can’t rely on Denmark being able to defend itself on its own. They talked about it, they even added an extra patrol, and they were serious about it. They deployed an additional dog sled, then another one. But that’s not going to do the trick. pic.twitter.com/5iXFx3H4IF — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 14, 2026 Credit: @Osint613 BREAKING: Denmark’s Foreign Minister changes course, vows to “find a common way forward” with Trump’s desire to own Greenland.pic.twitter.com/RB1xgmrtUJ — Polymarket (@Polymarket) January 14, 2026 @Polymarket/X.com When you have leverage and power, people — and entire countries — have no choice but to do what you want them to do. You don’t need to appease anyone, or lie to anyone. You can just do exactly what Donald Trump is doing. You can bend your enemies to your will, by force if necessary. You can tell that Trump has learned the lessons of his first term in office, when he spent a lot of time trying to court the so-called “black vote” with policies like the First Step and so on. That was his response to BLM. With that in mind, take a look at this: BREAKING: Agitators Flee as ICE Agents Fire Tear Gas Directly into Black Bloc The agitators can’t keep up with the sheer volleys of tear gas These agents aren’t playing any games tonight! pic.twitter.com/YNXzHVFOxH — Human Events (@HumanEvents) January 15, 2026 @HumanEvents/X.com This is footage of the aftermath of the ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis yesterday, where the illegal alien and the local residents attacked the ICE officer. It’s reminiscent of the BLM riots of 2020, when Democrats torched American cities — including Washington DC, and the church right next to the White House — with impunity. Except in this case, the feds are bombarding the rioters with tear gas and rubber bullets, and they’re backing off. Everything we’re seeing from the Trump administration suggests that, this time around, the Left’s domestic terrorism isn’t going to force ICE out of Minneapolis. And everything we’re seeing from American citizens — not the communists, but the actual Americans — suggests that Republicans will hold onto power as long as they fight this insurrection with the full force of the federal government. But that is an important qualifier. And I want to be very clear about this. The administration must fight this chaos with all of the legal force it can muster. And that force is — or should be — overwhelming. So far, ICE has not backed down. The federal government has not retreated. That is a good thing. But now Trump must go all the way, which he hasn’t done yet. The fact is that we can swoop into a foreign country and kidnap their president in the span of 90 minutes without taking a single casualty. That is a kind of might and power that most Americans didn’t even know we had. And that’s all the more reason why we cannot allow a ragtag group of fat, retarded losers to commit federal crimes every single night, right out in the open, in our own country. We know now, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that we could put a stop to all of this completely, for good. Every one of these degenerates could be in a cage in Gitmo tonight, crying for their mommies. Order could be restored in 10 minutes or less. None of the chaos in our streets has to happen. If it continues to happen, it will only be happening because it is allowed. We cannot allow it. Americans want strength. They want law. They want order. They want to see the domestic terrorists lose, and lose badly, in humiliating and painful fashion. So now is the time. Invoke the Insurrection Act. Send in the military. Use all of the force that is necessary, including lawful and lethal force. Throw these commies into a prison cell next to Maduro, where they belong. If Republicans want to retain power, they have to use it. Use all of it. Go all the way. Now is the time. And they won’t get another chance.