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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon called on the Trump administration to double down after officers from the Department of Homeland Security killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, over the weekend.

"In Minneapolis is just the center of an outright revolution, highly organized, highly financed, with our enemies, the Chinese Communist Party in back of this, but Soros, many other groups, highly organized, as sophisticated as what they did against our troops in Baghdad during the insurgency there," Bannon argued on his Monday War Room program. "And during the Iraq War, this is highly sophisticated. Under no circumstances can we de-escalate. Under no circumstances can we blink."

The pro-MAGA hosts on Real America's Voice argued that Alex Pretti's death at the hands of DHS officers should prompt President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act against anti-ICE protesters.

"As you can imagine, a number of protests broke out there in Minneapolis, and it really has just been a tragic situation," co-host Terrence Bates noted on Monday. "It's about time for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, just to try to really get a handle on this and send a message."

Fox News host Griff Jenkins fact-checked Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to his face after officials at the Department of Homeland Security alleged that 37-year-old slain nurse Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist.

"Here's a quote from [Fox's] reporting saying there is extreme internal frustration with DHS officials going on television and putting out statements to describe Alex Pretti as a domestic terrorist who was there to inflict maximum damage on federal agents or conduct a massacre even after multiple videos emerged," Jenkins explained on Monday, "to show that these claims appear to be inaccurate."

Mega podcaster Joe Rogan speculated that President Donald Trump was using Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics to drown out the coverage of the Department of Justice's refusal to comply with a law requiring the release of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

During an interview with comedian Ehsan Ahmad this week, Rogan asked whether the DOJ had recently released more Epstein materials after the December deadline.

U.S. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino boasted about detaining a 5-year-old boy in conditions that he insisted don't get "any better."

During a press conference on Friday, a reporter asked about the boy and his father, who were detained in Minnesota.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) admitted that he would "love to see" the U.S. military at war with the French Armed Forces over the right to own Greenland.

"It looks like America is firmly in control and empire-building again," MAGA influencer Benny Johnson told Steube in a Friday interview. "It's kind of awesome."

As the leadership of the Washington Post hobnobbed with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, there is panic within the newsroom over looming cuts and owner Jeff Bezos' disappearing acts as troubles mount at the venerable paper.

According to Status reporter Natalie Korach, there is an "erosion of morale" at the Post where things have deteriorated significantly during Chief Executive and Publisher Will Lewis's two-year tenure. Lewis has struggled to address declining newsroom morale and readership, prompting looming and devastating organizational restructuring to reduce staff.

President Donald Trump said that his so-called Board of Peace "might" replace the United Nations.

During a Tuesday press conference, Trump was asked about the future of his new project.

President Donald Trump floated the idea of renaming the former Gulf of Mexico after himself.

While recounting the victories of the first year of his second term, Trump recalled renaming the body of water the "Gulf of America."

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins doubled down after claiming meals in the United States cost $3 each.

According to the secretary, she asked a team of economists to estimate the cost of a meal.

Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) compared peaceful protesters who showed up to demonstrate against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a church in Minnesota to the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

During a Tuesday Newsmax interview, Self was asked about the decision to interrupt church services over the weekend because the pastor was thought to work for ICE.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) lashed out at world leaders who were groveling to President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

During a Tuesday interview with Sky News, Newsom faced a question about how world leaders should handle Trump's effort to acquire Greenland.

Bishop William Barber vowed to "overcome" the Trump administration in his Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in New York City.

During his MLK Day speech on Monday, Barber tied the fight against Trump to the song "We Shall Overcome."