Yesterday, President Trump issued Minnesota a clear ultimatum: end the violent attacks on ICE agents in Minneapolis, or he will invoke the Insurrection Act and restore order. That threat appears to have jolted Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey into sudden backpedaling after days of reckless, inflammatory rhetoric.
Walz, who never once demanded that left-wing rioters stand down, instead implored the White House to “turn down the temperature” — a remarkable request from a governor whose allies helped crank it up. And Frey, after months of demonizing ICE and fanning hostility toward federal law enforcement, now insists he never incited violence (setting aside the long record showing otherwise).
And now, Border Czar Tom Homan has announced that he will meet with the President this morning to discuss the possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act:
? BREAKING: Tom Homan says he’s meeting with President Trump TOMORROW about potentially invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota
“It’s a viable option… This CANNOT continue. There’s going to be more bloodshed if something isn’t done. I HOPE I’m wrong.”
IT’S TIME, 47! pic.twitter.com/jLXdxDJugL
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 16, 2026
“Is it time for the Insurrection Act, or would that just add gasoline to the fire?” host Laura Ingraham asked.
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“I’m not going to get ahead of the President on that,” Homan replied, “but it’s certainly an option, a viable option. So actually, I’ll be meeting with the President tomorrow.”
“I think it’s something that needs to be on the table, because this cannot continue,” Homan added. “There is going to be more bloodshed. I’m telling you, I hope I’m wrong. There’s going to be more bloodshed if something isn’t done.”
“And most Minnesotans…support ICE. It’s this radical group of anarchists, and when you see them close up, you really get a sense of who they are,” Ingraham said. “It’s this crowd, a lot of them paid, a lot of them working double shifts of protests, against the rest of the state…They don’t like what’s happening in the Twin Cities.”
“As far as the organization, everybody that’s planning these protests, giving these people weapons, and funding this. Again, justice is coming, cause we’re deep-diving that whole thing,” Homan said.
Elon Musk also said it was time to invoke the Insurrection Act in a post last night:
Time to invoke the Insurrection Act https://t.co/pkTdBJVcxT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2026
I get Ingraham’s caution, but the question of invoking the Insurrection Act isn’t political, and it isn’t about “throwing gasoline on the fire.” It’s about a far more basic issue: whether violence against federal law enforcement will be tolerated. A country that accepts mob attacks on ICE agents has already surrendered the rule of law.
If Tim Walz and Jacob Frey refuse to stop the violence — or worse, continue to excuse it — the Constitution doesn’t leave the nation powerless. It provides a remedy. And if Minnesota’s leaders won’t enforce the law, that remedy will.
