TODAY'S No Sh*t Sherlock Headline to beat them all: "Trump's Minneapolis reset isn't real"
Trump’s Minneapolis reset isn’t real
The White House has shifted tone and removed Greg Bovino, but Trump’s immigration policy remains intact
By Jason Kyle Howard
Senior Ideas Editor
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/27/bovino-is-out-of-minneapolis-but-trump-isnt-backing-down/
Beyond the heinous fact of Alex Pretti’s killing on Saturday in Minneapolis, when at least 10 bullets were fired by Border Patrol officers at the 37-year-old ICU nurse who was caring for others at a peaceful protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, it was body language that stood out. The curve of his thin back as he tried to shield a woman before he was dragged away; the swagger of the federal agents who were soon to kill him. The officers’ gait was unmistakable: They moved with the assurance of impunity.
That, perhaps more than anything else, sums up why we are now at this moment, confronting a president who, to most appearances, lacks a heart while leading an administration that lacks a soul.
In the wake of the compounding killings and violence against peaceful protesters, along with sadistic images of children being taken into custody — and, at least in the case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a preschooler who was seized in his driveway and shipped to a detention facility 1,300 miles away — reports are emerging that Donald Trump is, to paraphrase the Washington Post, softening his tone on the violence in Minnesota in the face of polls that show more Americans are souring on ICE.
The first signs of the shift came Sunday during a five-minute interview with the Wall Street Journal. The president, while criticizing Pretti for attending a protest while armed, refrained from saying that the federal officer who fatally shot the nurse had acted appropriately — even while administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, were blaming Pretti for his own death. (His killing, she falsely claimed, had thwarted “an act of domestic terrorism.”)
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