No De Escalation Ever is the core warning from Steve Bannon as Minneapolis openly defies federal immigration law and dares the Trump administration to retreat.
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Aired on January 28, 2026. Transcript begins below and may contain minor errors.
No De Escalation Ever in Minneapolis
STEVE BANNON (HOST): It’s Wednesday, 28 January, Year of Our Lord 2026. MAGA is not breaking over this. Of course, everything’s bending a little bit, but not going to break by a long shot. We’re anti fragile, and we’re resilient. Been through these before.
President Trump, and this is coming hot off the press, because I think he’s getting a belly full of it again. He turned to Truth Social, and I quote, this is from the president.
"Surprisingly, Mayor Jacob Frey just stated that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws.
After having had a very good conversation with him, could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the law and he is playing with fire.”
End quote.
All Walz and Frey have done is smack talk and say how they’re not going to enforce federal immigration laws in Minneapolis. That’s a sanctuary city. Homan’s out there.
We need to hold. It’s quite simple in the fog of war. Just look through it. We have to hold the line. There can be no de escalation at all. You don’t need to bring down the temperature. Raise the temperature. Put them under pressure. They’re the ones that are cracking. The whole nation sees it.
The polling is still there. The Washington Post said today Trump did so good on the border and closing the border, but he bit off more than he could chew because he said he was going to deport everybody and that’s impossible. It’s not impossible. It’s going to happen.
The Democratic Party business, the red green alliance business model, is to flood the nation with illegal aliens and just say it’s too hard to get them out. It’s too bad. Let’s have them vote. Let’s get them on welfare. Let’s do it all. It’s not going to happen.
That’s why Minneapolis is the lance to the boil. Frey is a weakling. Walz is a clown. We couldn’t get better casting.
Remember Frey during BLM. No compromise with these guys.
And Stephen Miller, let me be blunt. You can’t send 300 Customs and Border and ICE and not have a whole of government approach. You have to have DOJ. You have to have tiger teams and prosecutors.
I think they’ve had 12 prosecutors quit the Minneapolis office. That’s fine. Nobody’s forcing you to work. Surge other prosecutors. FBI. Where are the pipe hitters? Where’s Department of War?
You can’t put a handful of Customs and Border and ICE agents there and let them be surrounded every night by domestic violent terrorists.
This is an inflection point. You blink now and you’re going to blink forever. You bend the knee now, you’ll bend the knee forever.
If we stand in the breach and say screw you, we’re fighting for the country, I don’t care how many people I’ve got to deport. I don’t care.
If the families are there and they’re there illegally and we want to keep them together, guess what? You’re going to have to round up some five year olds with their parents.
But they’re going home. And home ain’t the United States. I don’t care how long they’ve been here on Biden’s watch. That’s not the point. They’re here illegally.
We can’t afford it. African American citizens, Hispanic American citizens, the white working class. Their lives are being destroyed. Their education systems. Their health care. Their jobs are being taken. Their wages are being driven down.
They’re American citizens. And illegal alien invaders are not American citizens. That’s a bright line.
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