Trump delivers remarks at White House Press Briefing on January 20, 2026
President Trump on Tuesday slammed disgraced liberal activist Don Lemon, the fired former CNN anchor, after he participated in storming a Minneapolis church and harassing worshiping families over the weekend.
Trump spoke to reporters for nearly two hours in the White House press briefing room on Tuesday, one year after of the beginning of his second term.
The President spent the first 20 minutes of the press briefing highlighting the heinous, violent criminals ICE is removing from the United States and defending ICE agents who are being smeared, physically attacked, and doxxed by the left.
At one point, he went off script and highlighted the recent incident in Minneapolis, where deranged leftist activists illegally invaded a church service, interrupting worship and shutting down the church because the pastor has alleged ties to ICE.
Don Lemon was there, livestreaming his participation in the event too. “This is what the First Amendment is about, the freedom to protest,” Don Lemon said as he and his comrades harassed families with children. “I’m sure people here don’t like it, but protests are not comfortable.”
Pastor Jonathan Parnell, whom Trump said he has “such respect” for, took questions and shut down Don Lemon at the church, describing their behavior as “unacceptable” and “shameful” as Lemon defiantly claimed he has a First Amendment right to harass churchgoers and accused Parnell of pushing him. Don Lemon was extremely hostile and demanding as the pastor tried to explain very respectfully, “We’re here to worship Jesus,” and pleaded with Lemon to leave.
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Trump showed off the mugshots and rap sheets of the illegal aliens, telling reporters, “This is what the people [in Minneapolis] are trying to protect.” He continued, “All ICE wants to do is get them out of our country, bring them to prisons and jails and mental institutions from where they came. That’s all they want to do. They’re patriots, and they have to be abused by guys like Don Lemon, who’s a loser, lightweight.”
“I saw him the way he walked in that church. It was terrible. I have such respect for that pastor. He was so calm, he was so nice. He was just accosted. What they did in that church was horrible,” Trump added before highlighting more violent criminal aliens and calling out the “paid agitators and insurrectionists” in Minnesota.
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Transcript:
Trump: This is all Minnesota, every one of them. This is one state out of many. And these people are— Let’s see. Yeah, these are all, so far, people that came from outside of the country. They were allowed in by Sleepy Joe Biden, Crooked Joe Biden, whichever you like, you can call him whatever you like. They’re both right. He’s sleepy, and he’s crooked. He was the worst president we’ve ever had, and we’ve had some bad ones, too. I can tell you, all you have to do is look at trade. You’re not getting bored with this, right? I hope you don’t. These are people that you have to see. Strong-arm rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, and many other crimes.
Gang member, known as one of the toughest people around. These are tough people. So, this is what the people are trying to protect because all ICE wants to do is get them out of our country, bring them to prisons and jails and mental institutions from where they came. That’s all they want to do. They’re patriots, and they have to be abused by guys like Don Lemon, who’s a loser, lightweight. I saw him the way he walked in that church. It was terrible. I have such respect for that pastor. He was so calm, he was so nice. He was just accosted. What they did in that church was horrible.
Look at this, 24 convictions. 24 times convicted. They’re not charges. These are convictions. So, he comes from outside the country. Do you think he’s going to be good here? Convicted 24 times. He’s going to be good here, right? It doesn’t work that way. Here’s a man, murder, one of many, one of many. All they want to do is get them out. They want to take them out of our country. And we’re met with paid agitators and insurrectionists, troublemakers. They’re paid.
You know, when the woman was shot, I felt terribly about that, and I understand both sides of it, but when she was shot, there was another woman that was screaming, “shame, shame, shame, shame,” right? You saw it. So loud, like a professional opera singer, she was so loud and so professional. She wasn’t a woman that was hurt like oh, my heart’s injured. She was a professional. “Shame, shame,” she’s screaming, “shame, shame.” I said that’s not a normal person, that’s a professional. These are professional agitators and professional people that want to see our country do badly. But that’s not happening, because we have the hottest country anywhere in the world despite this down. Look at this, all top-of-the-line criminals. They’re not going to be good. They’re not going to be well-behaved here. I could do thousands. We had over 3,000 in the last barely short well, just in Minnesota, what’s the number? 10,000! 10,000 criminals, and these are serious criminals. Now, how can a place with 10,000 criminals, how can you have a state? And yet they’re fighting us.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump also responded to the incident on Monday after watching footage of it, and he called for the anti-ICE agitators to be “thrown in jail, or thrown out of the Country.”
“The first to go should be Walz, and Fake Sleazebag, Ilhan Omar, who is supposedly worth over $30 Million Dollars, even though she’s never had anything but a Government job,” he added. “Investigate these Corrupt Politicians, and do it now!“
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