Trump gives garbled word salad when asked why ICE agent not arrested: 'What knows means'

Trump gives garbled word salad when asked why ICE agent not arrested: 'What knows means'
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media aboard Air Force One en route from Florida to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., January 11, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota is apparently protected from the law, President Donald Trump's administration has suggested. Trump, however, seems to have no idea what that means.

When asked Sunday after Vice President JD Vance's comment that the agent could not be prosecuted, Trump rattled out a nonsensical word salad that left reporters on Air Force One baffled, the Daily Beast reported.

Good, a 37-year-old Minnesota mother of three, was shot in the face by an ICE agent on Wednesday while attempting to drive away from an ICE protest. Vance responded by incorrectly claiming ICE officers enjoy "absolute immunity."

When a reporter asked what that meant, Trump responded: "Everyone's seen it. A woman who's very violent. She's a, you know, very radical person. Very sad what happened. Her friend was very radical."

When pressed again to define absolute immunity, Trump offered an even more garbled answer: "Well, I'm going to let the people define it. But immunity, you know what immunity, what knows means as well as I do."

Bodycam footage reveals that Good sat calmly behind the steering wheel, telling the ICE agent who would shoot her minutes later: "That's fine, dude, I'm not mad at you." ICE agents surrounded her SUV while Good's wife, Rebecca, filmed from outside. When ordered to exit her vehicle, Good attempted to drive away. An officer fired three shots into her head, shouting a vile slur as the vehicle traveled several feet before crashing into parked cars.

Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claim Good was attempting to run over agents. Noem accused her of "domestic terrorism."

Video evidence demonstrated Good's tires were turned away from the officer.

Vice President JD Vance, a Yale Law School graduate, said the officer was "doing his job" and therefore protected by federal immunity. Legal experts have rejected this claim, noting that the Supreme Court granted absolute immunity only to the president for official acts, but that does not extend to other federal officials.

When asked whether deadly force was necessary, Trump deflected: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement. You saw that they were harassing them, were following for days and for hours. And I think frankly they're professional agitators."

This statement contrasts with Trump's pardon of over 1,500 defendants who attacked police officers during the January 6 Capitol riots.

According to Good's ex-husband, the couple had just dropped off their 6-year-old son at school when they encountered protesters disrupting an ICE raid and decided to stop and observe.

When the reporter attempted to ask whether disrespect justified killing a U.S. citizen, Trump interrupted: "I'd like to find out—and we are going to find out—who's paying for it."

The administration has repeatedly claimed that protesters are funded by mysterious radical organizations, despite the FBI's apparent inability to identify these groups.

Good's death has prompted nationwide protests, with thousands gathering at hundreds of anti-ICE rallies across the country.

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Bari Weiss’ revamped “60 Minutes” suffered another ratings blow during its second week of the season.

“The once-venerated CBS News show” drew 6.5 million viewers Sunday, an 18% drop from its season debut, according to preliminary Nielsen figures reported by The Daily Beast.

The decline came one week after the season opener attracted about 7.94 million viewers — the storied newsmagazine’s smallest premiere audience since at least the turn of the century.

The latest episode also drew just 1.1 million viewers in the coveted 25-to-54 age group, plunging 30% from the premiere. It was beaten in that key demographic by Fox’s “Best Medicine” and CBS’ “Big Brother.”

“Viewers are continuing to lose interest in the revamped newsmagazine show,” according to The Daily Beast. The outlet described Weiss as the network’s “MAGA-curious” boss.

She was named CBS News editor-in-chief last year despite having no television experience.

Sunday's episode featured the correspondent debut of Ross Douthat, the conservative columnist Weiss poached from the New York Times, where he'd written for 17 years, as part of a shakeup that pushed out veterans including Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi. In his first segment, Douthat interviewed Patrick Clancy, whose wife, Lindsay, was tried in the strangulation deaths of their three young children; that trial ended in a mistrial this month after jurors deadlocked over her insanity defense.

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Robbie Smither, a Kentucky conservative and former Republican candidate for local office, vowed to vote for a Democrat “for the first time,” prompting former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to beg him to reconsider.

“When I vote for a Democrat, [Florida gubernatorial candidate David Jolly], for the first time in my 41 years of life this November, it will not be because my values have changed, but because my party has abandoned our values for the sycophancy of a transactional leader who has none,” Smither wrote in a social media post on X Tuesday.

Smither also said, despite a previous commitment to vote for GOP congressional nominee Mike Beltran, that he may vote for Beltran’s Democratic opponent, Kathy Castor.

“Why? Because Mike, for whatever reason, has made [President Donald Trump] his identity in this race instead of the principled conservative independence that set him apart in Tallahassee,” Smither wrote.

Smither’s pivot sparked an immediate response from several MAGA influencers and figures, including Gaetz, who issued Smither a desperate plea.

“Bro we need your vote,” Gaetz wrote in response. “I hate the war too. But the Democrats want to trans your kids.”

Phillip Buchanan, a prominent MAGA influencer who goes by the online pseudonym "Catturd," responded to Smither with a modified slur referencing people with intellectual disabilities. Not everyone piled on, however.

Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia state House lawmaker, devout Trump supporter and Jan. 6 Capitol rioter, said he understood Smither's shift even though rising fuel costs weren't enough to push him toward the Democrats himself.

“I’m upset about the fuel prices but I will NOT vote for a Democrat,” Evans wrote in a social media post on X. “But people have been getting upset with me when I say that other people will vote Democrat because of it.”

Vice President announced Tuesday that the Trump administration is kicking roughly 750,000 people off Obamacare while targeting hundreds of thousands more with investigations.

“We’re stopping Obamacare enrollment for about 750,000 people — 750,000 people who we believe are fraudulently enrolled in the program,” Vance said during remarks carried by C-SPAN. "That's number one."

Vance added that the administration will also begin conducting “additional verification” of approximately 419,000 other enrollees.

“We’re going to make sure that they are, first of all, legal residents of the United States of America,” he said. “And second of all, we’re going to make sure that they actually meet the income threshold requirements in order to receive these Obamacare benefits.”

Vance’s White House anti-task force is leading the purge from the Affordable Care Act exchanges, The Washington Post reported. The administration also plans to suspend brokers accused of improperly enrolling people for coverage.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz also Tuesday announced a separate six-month moratorium on new Obamacare broker registrations.

“It has never been done before,” Oz said. “There will be no new brokers for Obamacare in this country for the next six months.”

About 19 million people are enrolled through the ACA exchanges, according to the Washington Post. Enrollment has already fallen by more than 1 million since Trump returned to office and is expected to drop by millions more this year, the outlet added.

“Democrats and some health policy experts have argued that Trump’s policies, including ending coronavirus-era subsidies that widely lowered the cost of ACA coverage, have forced people off the program and put them at risk of losing access to care,” the Post said.

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