When a reporter asked Trump on Thursday evening whether or not he would be drawing back in Minneapolis, he responded: “Well, we want to keep our country safe. We’ll do whatever we can to keep our country safe.”
“So, not pulling back?” the reporter asked.
“No, no, not at all,” the president said.
This stands in stark contrast to what his administration has said this week.
After federal agents killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday, Senate Democrats had threatened a government shutdown over the inclusion of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding and, within it, a historic increase to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) budget.
Seemingly in response, the Trump administration scrambled to claw back some of its messaging.
The White House reneged on top officials’ comments calling Pretti an “assassin” and “terrorist,” and the administration booted Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino from his position overseeing the raid in Minneapolis. The new chief of Operation Metro Surge, “border czar” Tom Homan, assured the media that the operation was going to “draw down.” Trump himself said on Tuesday that “we’re going to deescalate a little bit” in Minneapolis.
And, for good measure, Trump administration insiders leaked some stories to the media about turmoil within Trump’s cabinet about immigration policy.
Just hours after Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) announced that they had reached a deal to avert a shutdown, however, Trump changed his tune. That deal, which would give DHS two weeks of funding to operate while negotiations are ongoing, was announced Thursday afternoon.
Trump’s comments lend credence to critics who said that the administration was only posturing about deescalating while never planning to do so.
The Senate still hasn’t passed the funding package due to some Republican holdouts. However, other Republicans have framed the negotiations as a win — and critics have slammed the deal as one that disproportionately benefits Trump.
The threat of a government shutdown was a major leverage point for Democrats. It would begin this weekend, just a week after federal agents’ killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, giving Democrats power over Republicans to extract concessions on the Trump administration’s ICE operation.
Trump was desperate to avoid it — especially after his party shouldered much of the blame for the historically long shutdown last year. In a post on Truth Social on Thursday evening, he lauded the package.
Meanwhile, critics have slammed Schumer for the deal, which only buys Republicans time to distance themselves from the Pretti killing and continue the administration’s raids in Minneapolis and other cities unhindered.
“Leader Schumer should ask the Minnesotans who are watching their neighbors get killed in cold blood if a deal with no plan to stop ICE is enough right now,” said MoveOn Civic Action.
After federal agents killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday, Senate Democrats had threatened a government shutdown over the inclusion of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding and, within it, a historic increase to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) budget.
Seemingly in response, the Trump administration scrambled to claw back some of its messaging.
Just hours after Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) announced that they had reached a deal to avert a shutdown, however, Trump changed his tune.
Chuck Schumer, somehow the only man worse at making business deals than Donald Trump.
What. The. Fuck. Is wrong with this stupid fucking coward? You essentially had your enemy by the testicles. You finally had the upper hand, and you give him a two weeks grace period?
And to the surprise of nobody, he immediately does what he obviously was going to do the entire time.
I get you don’t want to sink to the Republican level of refusing to ever compromise, but this wasn’t about taxes. It wasn’t even about healthcare. It was about funding the fucking gestapo, and rather than refusing you willingly compromised?
Did you at least negotiate for that seriously ill 5 year old kid to get some healthcare? Or maybe demand clean food and water for the people being held in these fucking sardine cans making evil rich fuckers trillions of dollars? Did you get DHS immigration oversight reestablished? Please tell me you got some kind of guarantee that things would improve on literally any level for any of the people currently being forced to suffer for no reason other than so selfish assholes can continue to profit. Because if not,
WHAT THE FUCK, DID YOU GET OUT OF THIS DEAL YOU FUCKING COWARD?
You’re still assuming Chuck Schumer is against Trump. He’s not. They’re on the same side. This isn’t a battle between political parties. It’s a battle against the rich and everyone else. Schumer isn’t bad at making deals. He’s excellent at making people think he’s trying.
In “conspiracy land” nobody is stupid, bad at their job, incompetent, or makes mistakes. There are no coincidences. Everything is done on purpose and it’s successful.
You then just warp everybody’s motives to fit your new conclusions.
Chuck Schumer is not the main problem. He was elected Senate minority leader by the rest of the Democrats in the Senate and he could be removed by the rest of the Democrats in the Senate if they wanted to. The problem is that they don’t want to because they support what he’s doing.
You cannot vote out the problem, when the system is the problem. As we’ve seen from the recent Trump(Epstein) Files, the legal system exists to protect the ultra wealthy. The FBI has known about Trump’s activities since the 90’s and have done nothing to prosecute him.
You can’t bring down The Master’s House with The Master’s Tools. We want change, justices, and liberty then we have to be willing to tear down the system The Oligarchs have built for themselves to keep the rest of us enslaved.
Believing otherwise is just a waste of energy and effort at this point.
This is the main problem https://www.trackaipac.com/congress
the problem is not israel. pull your head out for a minute
Exactly. We the people elected lots of worthless Democrats by voting blue-no-matter-who, and those worthless Democrats elected Chuck Schumer as Most Worthless Democrat.
Is Chuck Schumer
A. a fool
B. a Republican
C. corrupt
D. a fraud
E. a coward, or
F. all of the above?
You forgot
Traitor Bitch ass mother fucker Clown shoes
He’s an idiot. He’s playing politics like it’s the 90’s, long before 9/11 and the massive spread of right-wing radicals across the world. In 1985, this might even work. He’s old. This is why we need people who can at least use a gosh damn smartphone.
I doubt age or what kind of phone he is familiar with has anything to do with it.
It’s the money.
Exhibit A: people like James Bowman, Nick Fuentes, and Stephen Miller.
Democrats are the worst version of Charlie Brown and Lucy.
These fucking democrats are all stupid as hell. How many times will it take before they realize that trump never keeps his word except when its a petty threat.
Same donors, same team
This traitor isn’t coming to save America he’s Israel first all the way.
It seems like a movement to primary all Democrats should have already started. Primaries could be two months out.
Democrats fell for it again? How am I not surprised?
They got bought off again.
It’s not reasonable to do the ‘Both sides are the same!’ thing, as one side has masked fat guys killing people in the street without consequence - but it seems fair to say they’re shit and really nasty shit. You wouldn’t want to step in either.
“Fell for it”. Amazing how there is always a Leiberman in the punchbowl. No pattern to infer here, move along.
At this point something is broken. The rest of the world sees that this is not business as usual. The people who ought to be closest to it, who ought to see it first are completely absent.
Trump is the flame that’s burning up global trust, but the Democrats are trying to negotiate with a fire.
To him: fuck you, you fucking fuck.
Schmuck needs to be booted out. They’re all just giving Moscow a nice time laughing.
“Good cop, bad cop”
All part of the plan
What a fucking asshole.
Imagine cheering on this sack of shit as he sends in these goons to assault America itself. On top of that, the icing on the cake is that we are paying for all this nonsense as he withholds funds to disaster areas in this country. He vetoed WATER for Coloradans, many of which supported his dumb ass.
Jesus fucking christ.
his party shouldered much of the blame for the historically long shutdown last year
“much of”?
At least get it in writing and added to the bill…sheesh
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Trump is a narcissist, and his entire administration follows suit.
The prayer applies:
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
Trying to hold the administration accountable Will Not Work. Only external influences will.
Don’t forget to vote for the Washington Generals every election!
