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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota because "they hate white people" in the state.

After Trump threatened to use the law to send troops to Minnesota, Bannon opened his Thursday War Room show with a full-throated endorsement of the idea.

Critical comments about Donald Trump that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made in secret grand jury testimony reflect a general belief among GOP lawmakers that the president is delusional to the point that Graham asserted was “unnerving," according to an insider.

Appearing on MS NOW on Thursday morning, ex-Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) was asked about the New York Times report that made it clear that supporters of the president also have a surprisingly low opinion of him.

Pardoned former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn argued that President Donald Trump's invocation of the Insurrection Act would likely not be enough to end the violence sparked after Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were involved in multiple shootings in Minneapolis.

Flynn spoke to Real America's Voice on Thursday, just hours after Trump threatened to deploy troops under the Insurrection Act.

An attempt to make a point about how Donald Trump’s administration is dealing with crime in the cities, which has become a pretext for invading Minnesota with ICE agents, earned Axios founder Jim VandeHei an abrupt interruption from MS NOW host Mika Brzezinski on Thursday morning.

Discussing the heightened tensions in Minneapolis–St Paul that now have the president threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, the “Morning Joe” co-host turned to VandeHei, who attempted a nuanced answer that did not sit well with Brzezinski.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly laid out why he's so obsessed with buying or even annexing Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark: he wants to fully secure U.S. military bases there — something NATO already allows — he wants access to the island's mineral resources, and he is fixated on the idea Russia or China could take over the island.

But even if, somehow, Denmark had a change of heart and made a deal, or if Trump broke apart the NATO alliance to seize Greenland by force, there's something he hasn't considered, the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote: how expensive it would be to have Greenland as a U.S. holding.

Donald Trump's April "Liberation Day" declaration, in which he predicted that sweeping import tariffs would generate substantial manufacturing job growth, has not materialized.

According to the Washington Post, the U.S. has actually lost manufacturing jobs since Trump's announcement. Additionally, the government tariff revenue the president has touted may be jeopardized if the Supreme Court issues an anticipated adverse ruling in the coming days.

Post reporter David J. Lynch reports that U.S. factories currently employ 12.7 million workers—down 72,000 from when Trump proclaimed, "Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already."

The president's trade measures have instead hindered manufacturing, according to most mainstream economists. Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, told the Post, "2025 should have been a good year for manufacturing employment, and that didn't happen. I think you really have to indict tariffs for that."

Hicks cautioned that current job losses represent only the beginning of a broader decline. "The manufacturing job losses that we see now are really just the beginning of what will be a pretty grim couple of quarters as manufacturing adjusts to a new lower level of demand."

Recent corporate actions illustrate the trend. In December, Westlake Corp., a Houston-based industrial chemical producer, announced plans to idle four production lines at facilities in Louisiana and Mississippi, eliminating 295 jobs. Company executives attributed the decision to excess global capacity and weak demand.

During a Detroit speech this week, Trump declared, "The Trump economic boom is officially begun." Lynch observed dryly, "All that's missing now are the jobs."

After a night of violent confrontations between aggressive ICE agents and protesters in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Donald Trump menaced the state of Minnesota with a threat to invoke the Insurrection Act that could be a prelude to martial law.

Taking to Truth Social early Thursday morning, the president accused Minnesota lawmakers of being “corrupt” and warned them they need to quash protesters confronting armed DHS agents who have been violently grabbing people off the streets and in the their homes and hustling them away to detention centers.