Steve Bannon: Insurrection Act in Minnesota, Troops, Mass Deportations
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On WarRoom, Steve Bannon positioned Minnesota as the center for invoking the Insurrection Act, deploying troops, and pursuing mass deportations to restore what he frames as national sovereignty.
He’s not debating policy. He’s talking about action. He lays out a clear order: invoke the Insurrection Act, send in troops, then carry out mass deportations. In his view, what happens in Minnesota shows whether federal authority actually means anything. He contrasts enforcement with what he calls games by state and local officials, warning that delays only make things worse and invite more chaos.
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Aired on January 15, 2026. Transcript begins below and may contain minor errors.
Insurrection Act and Enforcement in Minnesota
STEVE BANNON (HOST): I also want to remind, that’s Jonathan Lemire and Jonathan Martin this morning on Morning Joe, and they’re both from Politico. And I just want to remind Jonathan Martin, yes, you’re absolutely correct.
And Richard Nixon won a massive landslide when he ran on this for re election. Remember, it’s time to take action. It’s enough playing, okay.
President Trump’s got this great saying, no games. What’s happening in Minnesota is games. It’s pure gamesmanship.
What they’re doing is, and last night, I want to thank the WarRoom Posse. We did, Grace and Mo put up the, we cut to a live stream of that last night because it was out of control. And you saw there in the footage, they broke into the car, took a weapon and ammunition. After now you see the chants in the street, they want guns.
And we’ll play later that clip from the middle of that magnificent cold open, which I want to thank Real America’s Voice Denver and our own crack production team here at the WarRoom. It was a magnificent arc to that last night. We cut into the live stream.
You can hear that feckless Frey, and now you’ve heard Tim Walz this morning. They’re defying. Look, in this country we either have sovereignty or we don’t. Tim Walz and that whole crowd, and the funding, I’m going to get to Brat in a moment about Capitol Hill, the hapless Democrats and Republicans now playing ball with the Democrats so that all this stuff basically be funded. It’s all still being funded.
You have to draw a line somewhere. Let’s just draw it right now.
Now let’s see what’s going to go. By the way, send the troops in. Let’s clean out this mess. Let’s go to the employers. Let’s get them all out of here, gone. And see who the country backs. The country will back Trump on this.
The folks in this country, including Hispanic Americans and African Americans, they understand it’s their health care that’s being destroyed. It’s their education system that’s being destroyed. It’s their wages that are essentially being garnished. The elites have done this. The elites that hate the country. The Marxists that now are partnered with the jihadists. They hate this country. They hate everything about it.
We’ve got some clips we couldn’t put in there about people at a city council, I think it’s in Ohio, that including some naturalized guy, he sounds like he’s from Ireland. He says they’re spitting on the Pledge of Allegiance. If you don’t have allegiance to this nation, to this republic, get the hell out. And if we got to send the troops in to get them out, the American people will have your back.
Richard Nixon and the chaos that Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society and the new immigration law and the voting, all of it caused, and Vietnam, they’re doubling down and lying to your face in Vietnam. And then their constituents hated the draft because they didn’t want to go serve the country. And I agree, it was a mess.
However, as soon as the draft went away, all the big riots went away. Because all they cared about was themselves. They didn’t care about the people in Vietnam. That was the whole hype they did in ’67, ’68. Oh, it’s undermining the harbors in Haiphong. They didn’t care about that. They cared about their own skins.
Nixon stared it down and won in a landslide. Let me repeat. Did I mention he won in a landslide? Of which they had to then do the test case with lawfare to take him out, what they’re doing against Trump.
Mr. President, all these people are not just your enemies. They’re your enemies because they’re the enemies of this nation. They hate that. And the more they say undocumented individuals, they’re here, they’re illegal aliens that you folks brought in with all your different scams.
I don’t know, 12, 15, 20, 25 million. I have no earthly idea how many. We just don’t. I know officially they say 12 million. Think about that for a second. What would the revolutionary generation say about this? What about the nation builders that followed them? What would they say about this? The Civil War generation? The Great Generation of the Great Depression and World War II? What would they say about this?
They would say get moving, get this done, get these invaders out of the country, and stop focusing on downtown Tehran.
The economic policies of President Trump have put the screws to the mullahs. As we’ve said on this show, you don’t need to go bomb it. It’s collapsing. Now they’re shipping their money out of there.
And no offense, the people that brought it on, they threw out the Shah. It was all corrupt as all get out. A bunch of evil. They got the Brent Bears, got the son up there like some goofball. Do you honestly think they’re going to put that back in? They threw those guys out. They brought this on themselves. They have to deal with it.
I’m sorry that people are being gunned down, but you brought it on yourself. You brought Islamic Republic and the whole world. What you have to do to get them out?
We should continue to put strong economic pressure, economic warfare, sanctions. And guess what? Stop the freaking oil from coming out of the Straits of Hormuz, and make China bend the knee. The CCP bend the knee and cut the mullahs off.
But the focus of the sovereignty of this nation, the epicenter is Minnesota, but it’s going to get worse when you go into New York. Just wait.
They’re going to try to shut down the government on not funding ICE. They’re then going to come around. And on February 1st, when President Trump cuts off the money, takes them off the tit in California, in Illinois, in New York, you watch. You watch what happens in the streets. It’s going to explode.
Let it explode. Let it explode. Go ahead. Fine. Let them get out of control. Bring in the army and put it down.
Invoke the Insurrection Act. See how tough Tim Walz and see how tough these folks are. Let’s roll. They’re going to break into cars and take guns and take weapons and get ammo.
Implying now they’re all, every, see these protests, they’re throwing these firecrackers. They’re almost like mini bombs, trying to hurt ICE agents who are just trying to do their job.
And all they do is go on and on and on in every show. Oh, ICE, ICE, ICE. They’re revving people up to attack ICE officers who are just doing their job. And the job they’re doing is just a criminal element.
Let’s roll in. Let’s arrest some CEOs. Let’s roll into all the companies. Boom. Let’s do some mass deportations. Go to the schools, the hospitals, all of it. Mass deportations. Mass deportations.
It’s going to have a little hair on it. It just is. But you’ve got to clean it out.
You know Ecclesiastes says there’s a time and place for everything, a season for everything. This is the season of taking our side. You’ve sealed the border. This is taking our sovereignty back. Don’t blink.
Finish what we started. Not just the bad hombres. There’s not simply the insane asylums and the jails and the criminals, everything they sent here. Yes, that is a significant portion of it, but that ain’t the thing itself.
It’s the 12 or 15 million, because we’re going to have David Hoch on. It’s the business model. Soros and CAIR put up some starter cash, as the New York Post shows, and then they get the federal government program. So you’re funding it.
And in Congress today, they’re not cutting that. They don’t want to cut it. They don’t want to find out. That’s why David Hogg is a national hero.
It’s their business model to take this country over from you. So it’s real simple. Who’s in charge? Are you in charge with your candidate that you back, Donald Trump, or are they in charge? Because this is what it’s about.
So let’s do it. Let’s just have it now. Why wait? Why push it down?
The two sides couldn’t be a bigger bright line. Let’s just roll and see who’s got the political will, and see who’s tougher, and see who’s more focused and more determined, and has more cussedness to it.
Mass deportations now. Insurrection Act first. Troops second. Mass deportations third.
Bingo, bango, bungo.
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Excellent artical Steve. Agree 100%!
Insurrection Act Just Do It