President Trump just issued his response to the shooting in Minneapolis this morning. An armed 37-year-old man named Alex Pretti was shot and killed by Border Patrol acting in self-defense after he assaulted officers and tried to draw his weapon. If you missed it, here’s our full report: UPDATE: Armed Man K*lled in Minneapolis Identified as Alex Pretti — Here’s Everything We Know So Far In a post on Truth Social, President Trump reacted by pointing out that Alex Pretti was armed with a fully loaded handgun and was carrying two extra magazines. He called out Minnesota leadership for not protecting federal agents and accused them of using this incident as a cover-up for all the fraud  going on in the wildly-corrupt state. Read President Trump's full statement on Truth Social here: This is the gunman’s gun, loaded (with two additional full magazines!), and ready to go – What is that all about? Where are the local Police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE Officers? The Mayor and the Governor called them off? It is stated that many of these Police were not allowed to do their job, that ICE had to protect themselves — Not an easy thing to do! Why does Ilhan Omar have $34 Million Dollars in her account? And where are the Tens of Billions of Dollars that have been stolen from the once Great State of Minnesota? We are there because of massive Monetary Fraud, with Billions of Dollars missing, and Illegal Criminals that were allowed to infiltrate the State through the Democrats’ Open Border Policy. We want the money back, and we want it back, NOW. Those Fraudsters who stole the money are going to jail, where they belong! This is no different than a really big Bank Robbery. Much of what you’re witnessing is a COVER UP for this Theft and Fraud. The Mayor and the Governor are inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric! Instead, these sanctimonious political fools should be looking for the Billions of Dollars that has been stolen from the people of Minnesota, and the United States of America. LET OUR ICE PATRIOTS DO THEIR JOB! 12,000 Illegal Alien Criminals, many of them violent, have been arrested and taken out of Minnesota. If they were still there, you would see something far worse than you are witnessing today! President Trump is absolutely spot-on. As I type this, rioters are causing chaos in the streets of Minneapolis. Very conveniently, the left raging over the death of an anti-ICE, gun-wielding protestor is an excellent distraction for the real issues in Minnesota -- which implicate Gov. Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar and many other Democrat leaders. No wonder they are so quick to use this incident as an opportunity to incite even more violence against ICE... Here are some scenes of the protests happening in Minneapolis: Federal agents are UNLEASHING crowd control munitions on these raging leftists in Minneapolis after the armed suspect was shot and killed, total chaos as the mob loses it! This is 100% on Mayor Frey and Tim Walz. Invoke the Insurrection Act! pic.twitter.com/7J0qcAdZgi — Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) January 24, 2026 BREAKING: Fires are ALREADY being set in the streets of Minneapolis as riots intensify It’s going to be a long night… Walz and Frey are going to make sure we have a “Winter of Love” pic.twitter.com/M7crd7AwDZ — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 24, 2026 It's wild how fast so many rioters took to the streets following this guy's death... Almost like it's not organic, at all. Someone is giving them orders, as well as providing them with food and other equipment. Watch this enlightening clip: BREAKING: The riot in Minneapolis right now is PAID and ORGANIZED after an armed man was shot, people are "TAKING COMMANDS," there's food, there's notifications, and they knew exactly where to go "They're giving them instructions." "And they outnumber police by 10:1 at this… pic.twitter.com/F0d4g5dovO — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 24, 2026 BREAKING: The riot in Minneapolis right now is PAID and ORGANIZED after an armed man was shot, people are "TAKING COMMANDS," there's food, there's notifications, and they knew exactly where to go "They're giving them instructions." "And they outnumber police by 10:1 at this point!" ARREST THE FUNDERS. Who's funding these people? The Trump administration needs to investigate...