Standing With ICE - Top 3 Takeaways January 16th, 2026
Takeaway #1: I Stand with ICE
On Thursday President Trump issued this warning in regards to the growing anti-ICE “protestors” and to those who egg them on when he said: If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State. That one statement says it all in a nutshell. A) Minnesota’s Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison have presided over what appears to be the largest state backed fraud operation of federal tax dollars in American history...in one of the country’s smaller states no less. These (likely criminally corrupt) actors have defamed and slandered ICE officers and the agency effectively inciting protesters to attempt to exact an outcome that distracts from the historic corruption that’s been uncovered on their watch. B) Professional, often paid, insurrectionists, are behind the ICE Out movement and have been the ring leaders behind protests and obstruction of justice a la what Renee Good was doing at the time of her death. For those who don’t know, Renee Good joined the “ICE Out” movement and was taught and trained on obstruction of justice – which resulted in the three known felonies she committed leading up to the moment of her death. C) What’s happened in Minneapolis, and actually in communities throughout the country...
Takeaway #2: Is indeed by definition insurrection
This is the definition insurrection via the Insurrection Act: In all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect. Minnesota’s lack of willingness to step in and end the obstruction of justice occurring on a daily basis clearly fits the definition of the Insurrection Act. Now, I can’t begin to imagine how broken in the brain one must be to want to protect criminal illegal immigrants from prosecution (keeping them in one’s community and in proximity no less), which includes committing crimes to do so, but that’s where we are with large swaths of the political Left. And it’s all by design. As I first brought you last year leading up to the initial “NoKings” protests... NoKings is a collaboration led by Indivisible, a Marxist organization founded in 2019 in opposition to President Trump, and the recently founded 50501 Movement, a Marxist organization that took the lead in attempting to organize May Day (the communist holiday) events across the country. As is commonly the case with newly established Marxist organizations, they’re rebranded fronts. Indivisible has received the majority of its funding through George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and the Tides Foundation that both George Soros and Bill Gates have a heavy hand in funding. So that’s who’s behind this. There’s nothing organic about it. There aren’t even new people behind it. It’s George Soros, Bill Gates, Christy Walton and co. under branding established by Chuck Schumer and presented to you as though it’s a new grass-roots movement. And that’s precisely who is behind the ICE Out campaign... Indivisible – which is also why you’ve often seen NoKings material around these ICE protests. Those are the useful idiots radicalized by Marxists seeking to undermine our system of government and they’re willing to murder Charlie Kirk, try to murder President Trump and ICE agents to do it. The Left wanted to call January 6th “an insurrection”. The political Left is the insurrection. I’m all for President Trump acting on it to uphold the rule of law.
Takeaway #3: Success to Significance
I’m not tired of winning. Good news never gets old, and it was just yesterday in my takeaways that I said Florida’s story is a great one that just keeps getting better. That’s true in many ways, but perhaps the single most impressive improvement our state has seen over the past twenty years has happened where it matters most. In the classroom. The bottom line is that while there are many exceptions to this “rule”, it is true that there’s historically been no greater indication of one’s level of achieved financial success in life than the outcome in the classroom. Consider that most recently the average high school dropout earned $38,000, while the average high school graduate earned $48,000 with the average college graduate bringing in $80,000. Not only that, but the unemployment rate is 2-points higher for grade school dropouts and is 2.5 times higher than for those with a college degree. I’ve said all of that to setup what we’ve learned this week from the Florida Department of Education. Not only did Florida reach a new record high for high school graduation rate last year... shattered it. The 92.2% grad rate was 2.5-points higher than the previous best and over 33-points higher than where we were twenty years ago. Literally every student demographic experienced record high graduation rates last year with the biggest gains coming with Black students and the second largest gain coming from Hispanic students in helping to bridge the education achievement gap. To start this year, I said that our country is set up for unprecedented success, and it is. But more exciting still is that the best performing state in so many ways is the Free State of Florida, and the latest education news is the best news we’ve received yet. Florida ranked 2nd in K-college education last year after having ranked first each of the previous two years. With the new news in hand, you’ve got to like Florida’s chances of taking over the top spot for education nationally once again – with what’s likely to be our state’s best showing every for K-12 education.