The Trish Regan Show - 🔥 Ilhan Omar SPIRALS as Trump Weighs Military Option in Minneapolis
Aired: 2026-01-17
Duration: 15:52


=== Minneapolis Tensions Reach Breaking Point (12:18) ===

[00:00:02]  Tensions running high on the streets of Minneapolis right now as the president of the United States makes it very clear the Insurrection Act is still on the table.
[00:00:12]  He doesn't want to have to use it, but if he's pushed, he will.
[00:00:17]  And judging by the actions that we have seen overnight and today going into the weekend, I can tell you he's getting to the point of no return.
[00:00:24]  So Ilhan Omar is freaking out, completely panicking at this hour because you see, they're zeroing in on her.
[00:00:30]  She's trying to divert the story to somehow this being some kind of Gestapo authoritarian regime.
[00:00:36]  taking to the streets in Minneapolis, but we know the truth and they're zoning in on her.
[00:00:41]  I'm just going to tell you guys this.
[00:00:43]  250 million bucks, 80% of the people were all from her district.
[00:00:49]  You know, you start to add this up and you start to follow the money and it gets very suspicious.
[00:00:53]  For one, Ilhan Omar, meanwhile, as I said, the president of the United States, not taking the insurrection act off the table.
[00:01:01]  You could see military rule in the city of Minneapolis.
[00:01:06]  By the way, it wouldn't be the first time this has happened.
[00:01:08]  Welcome to the program, everyone.
[00:01:09]  Good to have you here.
[00:01:10]  Make sure you subscribe, share, like Ilhan Omar.
[00:01:13]  This woman is nervous.
[00:01:14]  She's getting panicky.
[00:01:15]  She's starting to lash out, saying all kinds of things.
[00:01:17]  The latest and greatest being that she is referring to ICE, Immigration, Customs, Enforcement, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security as, well, a paramilitary group.
[00:01:34]  I mean, this is, I mean, even for her, it's kind of off a rocker, but, you know, it's off in left field.
[00:01:39]  And I think it sort of speaks.
[00:01:42]  To how panicked and how scared she really is.
[00:01:45]  And so she's got to turn this story into something else, as opposed to just law enforcement actually doing its job, because you see, this is a law that's on the books, made by Congress nonetheless.
[00:01:53]  And they're just trying to enforce the law, but not with Ilhan Omar around.
[00:01:57]  Watch.
[00:01:59]  Now it's unprecedented.
[00:02:01]  There is no modern present for this level of federal overreach, violence, lawlessness carried out in the name of immigration enforcement.
[00:02:10]  This administration has unleashed primarily. paramilitary force into our neighborhoods terrorizing families.
[00:02:19]  Terrorizing families.
[00:02:22]  What a choice of words.
[00:02:24]  Okay, what a choice.
[00:02:25]  I mean, forget about the fact that some families have been terrorized by the violence that has come from criminals that are here.
[00:02:31]  I mean, again, I'm sorry.
[00:02:33]  Like, I was looking at a report this morning.
[00:02:35]  It was back in the day when Barack Obama was getting people out of the country left and right.
[00:02:41]  And for some reason, it was perfectly fine.
[00:02:42]  CNN does a ride along.
[00:02:44]  Okay.
[00:02:44]  They're like, wow, isn't this amazing?
[00:02:46]  And now when it's actually a Republican in the Oval Office, suddenly it's terrible.
[00:02:54]  It's, it's the equivalent of a paramilitary group because apparently she doesn't believe that the federal government has a right to patrol who is in the country.
[00:03:04]  I'm sorry.
[00:03:06]  But you know, Ilhan, I think what this is really about, my dear.
[00:03:09]  Ilhan Omar.
[00:03:11]  It's really about the $250 million that went missing, stolen, courtesy of your district.
[00:03:19]  Okay, and you want to tell me that you had nothing to do with it?
[00:03:21]  Nothing to do with feeding our future?
[00:03:25]  $250 million?
[00:03:26]  That's what she's claiming.
[00:03:27]  I mean, I think it's kind of interesting.
[00:03:29]  The day she marries Timmy Minette, you know, as in my net worth goes up when I'm with Timmy.
[00:03:35]  Not Timmy Walsh, Timmy Minette.
[00:03:38]  He was her campaign manager.
[00:03:40]  Yeah, he left his wife.
[00:03:41]  Not a good move.
[00:03:41]  For Ilhan Omar, I mean, economically, maybe it was until the feds figure out perhaps that there may be something just a little bit wrong.
[00:03:49]  I got my suspicions.
[00:03:50]  I think you've got yours.
[00:03:51]  And I think the Treasury Secretary has his.
[00:03:54]  $250 million.
[00:03:55]  She introduced that Feeding the Nation program on the day she announced her marriage with Mr. Minette.
[00:04:04]  So that in and of itself just had me kind of thinking.
[00:04:07]  The fact that 80% of the people that have been convicted of fraud all came straight from her district.
[00:04:12]  And the fact that she was even trying to do it as recently as last week.
[00:04:14]  Yeah.
[00:04:15]  Ladies and gentlemen, as recently as last week, leave it to Joni Urs who figured that one out, $1.03 million Ilhan Omar was trying to get for a mental health clinic above another Somali restaurant in Minneapolis.
[00:04:27]  How do you like that?
[00:04:29]  Well, when she's confronted about the $9 billion, because that's what it's estimated to be right now by the U.S. Attorney's Office there in the state of Minnesota, $9 billion in fraud, she's confronted about reality by a reporter, and man, does she go running.
[00:04:43]  I mean, she literally flees after insulting this reporter.
[00:04:47]  This is an unbelievable clip, and I know some of you have seen it, but we're going to watch it again because I think it gives us interesting insight into the paranoia and the absolute hysteria going on, in my opinion, in Ilhan Omar's mind right now.
[00:05:01]  And believe me, she hasn't seen the worst of it.
[00:05:05]  Here we go.
[00:05:06]  Congresswoman Omar, yesterday you told me to please read when I asked you about the $9 billion fraud that you denied is happening, but I have it right here.
[00:05:12]  I read.
[00:05:13]  Look, Chairman Comer opens here on massive fraud scandal, $9 billion.
[00:05:17]  That's what Comer believes because he's As smart as you are.
[00:05:21]  It's not just Comer, it's Scott Besson, it's federal prosecutors, it's House Oversight, and it's Minnesota State Rats.
[00:05:26]  You can have that, ma'am.
[00:05:28]  I think you need to get examined because your brain has been fried in some way, and it's not okay.
[00:05:35]  I really hope you get some help.
[00:05:37]  You and the Republicans here.
[00:05:38]  Take care, okay, mom?
[00:05:41]  I'm sorry, I can't go to the learning centers that you're running over in Minnesota.
[00:05:45]  Good one!
[00:05:46]  I think you should perhaps read.
[00:05:48]  What's actually.
[00:05:48]  I need one of those learning centers.
[00:05:52]  Oh, yeah, that's great.
[00:05:56]  That's absolutely great.
[00:05:56]  I like that reporter.
[00:05:57]  She's going on me.
[00:05:58]  She works for Mike Lindell's network.
[00:05:59]  Anyway, the point being that the day before, Ilhan, she'd approached Ilhan, and I saw the tape of this one.
[00:06:05]  This was good, too.
[00:06:06]  She approached Ilhan and was like, hey, you know, the $9 billion, and the woman looked at her like she had a screw loose.
[00:06:11]  because there's no such thing as $9 billion that has gone missing.
[00:06:14]  But I hate to break it to her.
[00:06:16]  Yes, everybody knows.
[00:06:17]  This has actually been reported, believe it or not, by even the mainstream media, CBS Evening News.
[00:06:23]  Well, not the Evening News.
[00:06:24]  I don't know as the TV arm has done it, but they did have it on their print site for what it's worth.
[00:06:28]  $9 billion, it is estimated, that is suddenly up in smoke.
[00:06:32]  Your money, okay?
[00:06:34]  Your money.
[00:06:34]  And she sits there and laughs and tries to tell this girl that she's got a screw loose.
[00:06:38]  I think we know who's got a screw loose, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:06:41]  By the way, what kind of argument is that?
[00:06:42]  I mean, She's asking a question and she comes back with, you stupid.
[00:06:46]  And you know what?
[00:06:47]  I mean, that tells you everything you need to know about the state of mind of one Ilhan Omar right now and how scared she is and how worried she is that they're going to find her out.
[00:06:57]  They're going to find her out because $250 million went somewhere.
[00:07:00]  Oh, perhaps, oh, I don't know, to Dubai?
[00:07:03]  Because we did see that $700 million departed from the Minneapolis airport.
[00:07:09]  There's more than any other airport in cash, in suitcases.
[00:07:12]  Can you imagine that?
[00:07:13]  They're like stuffing millions of dollars into suitcases and they actually declared this stuff.
[00:07:17]  Question is, how much did they not declare?
[00:07:20]  And so the Treasury Department is like, why is so much money leaving the city of Minneapolis?
[00:07:25]  I mean, it's not like these people on paper had that much money, right?
[00:07:29]  But these businesses were raking it in.
[00:07:30]  I mean, we don't actually have to have a business, but you just sit back and you collect off of Uncle Sam.
[00:07:35]  Pretty good deal, I'll tell you.
[00:07:38]  And so this is all coming to a head right now.
[00:07:41]  Mayor Jacob Fry going out on a limb here and saying, well, it would all end tomorrow, right?
[00:07:46]  If we could just get rid of ICE.
[00:07:48]  because they see ICE as the problem.
[00:07:49]  They don't see themselves as the problem.
[00:07:51]  You see they are the problem.
[00:07:52]  The fraudsters are the problem.
[00:07:55]  The reckless craziness in the streets, and we've seen it.
[00:08:00]  And by the way, this is the second time under Governor Timmy Waltz's watch that you've seen this kind of craziness in the streets.
[00:08:06]  The last time being summer of 2020 BLM riots, right, in Minneapolis.
[00:08:11]  So they know how to do these things.
[00:08:13]  They don't like who's in office.
[00:08:14]  What do you know?
[00:08:15]  Amazing it didn't happen when Joe Biden was there, right?
[00:08:17]  We don't want to make the president look bad, but hey, when we can look make Trump look bad.
[00:08:21]  We're all over it.
[00:08:22]  So Jacob Fry is out there trying to say that it'll all end tomorrow if ICE just goes away.
[00:08:29]  No, no, no.
[00:08:30]  It won't end because I'll tell you what, Mr. Fry, we're not going to stop investigating all this money that you stole.
[00:08:36]  Your team, your district stole from us and you guys looked the other way.
[00:08:42]  So number one, there's that.
[00:08:44]  Number two, you're not allowing federal law enforcement to do its job, which puts you in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
[00:08:51]  You are impeding and therefore giving the president every single right to invoke the Insurrection Act.
[00:08:56]  You're going to have the military on your streets.
[00:08:58]  Here's Jacob Fry.
[00:09:00]  If this were about order, there would be a simple way to restore it.
[00:09:06]  And let me tell you a secret.
[00:09:09]  It's not restored by additional federal agents.
[00:09:12]  Order would be restored, and I will make this prediction, if those federal agents left.
[00:09:19]  As soon as they leave, we will have peace, we will have safety, and order will be restored.
[00:09:26]  Yeah, right.
[00:09:28]  So, you see, he wants to get his way.
[00:09:30]  But if we leave, we don't actually get to see all the fraud that was going on.
[00:09:35]  They don't want DHS there.
[00:09:36]  They don't want ICE there.
[00:09:37]  They don't want the Department of Agriculture there.
[00:09:39]  They don't want the IRS there.
[00:09:40]  They don't want Treasury Department there.
[00:09:42]  They don't want any of the feds there, right?
[00:09:43]  Because you see, the feds are the ones that are finding all of this fraud.
[00:09:47]  $9 billion in the state of Minnesota, $250 million just from one little program that was introduced by Ilhan Omar.
[00:09:56]  And by the way, was servicing his city.
[00:10:00]  Nobody thought to say boo.
[00:10:02]  Well, I mean, heck, Ilhan Omar had her own darn campaign people.
[00:10:07]  Think about that.
[00:10:07]  One of the people on her campaign that works for her as a staffer went on to steal millions of dollars.
[00:10:13]  From U.S. taxpayers via the Feeding Our Future program introduced by her.
[00:10:18]  So clearly we have a problem.
[00:10:21]  And Ilhan has a problem.
[00:10:22]  And Minneapolis has a problem.
[00:10:24]  And it's going to come to hurt them badly.
[00:10:27]  Meanwhile, we've got good stuff going on in the overall U.S. economy.
[00:10:31]  Just don't tell CNN.
[00:10:32]  I thought this was great.
[00:10:33]  Somebody tweeted this out yesterday and I wanted to show you.
[00:10:35]  U.S. inflation is still high, but it's falling, they said, back in 2023.
[00:10:40]  This is when we were dealing with like upwards of 6%.
[00:10:42]  After having touched 9.6% in consumer prices, they wrote in 2023 under the Biden administration, woohoo, last month's consumer price index measured 6%, down from January 6.4%.
[00:10:54]  Like it's a victory lap, right?
[00:10:56]  And then the other day, this week, when we get inflation out, and by the way, it's great, okay?
[00:11:01]  It's 2.7%.
[00:11:01]  Core went down to 2.6%.
[00:11:03]  The headline is, U.S. inflation remains at 2.7% in December, underscoring persistent cost of living challenges.
[00:11:12]  You know, Debbie Downer's over there at CNN.
[00:11:15]  They just don't want to give this president anything.
[00:11:18]  Well, BlackRock came out with a report today.
[00:11:20]  And by the way, they own a ton of housing, which has been controversial in and of its own right.
[00:11:25]  But it's worth noting.
[00:11:26]  And we tweeted this out over at 76 Research that they're pegging inflation at 2%.
[00:11:29]  Okay.
[00:11:31]  So they think the government's way high.
[00:11:34]  2.7%.
[00:11:34]  Forget about it.
[00:11:35]  They think it's actually 2%.
[00:11:36]  So there's a lot of optimism out there.
[00:11:38]  We get 6.
[00:11:40]  rather, forgive me, 5.6% expected GDP growth.
[00:11:45]  That's predicted from the Atlanta Fed.
[00:11:47]  For the fourth quarter of the year.
[00:11:49]  I mean, what's to complain about?
[00:11:51]  I really like all of this.
[00:11:53]  Go to 76research.com that's my financial research company.
[00:11:56]  Use code word dollar to get the 76 report.
[00:11:58]  You get a lot of insights into what's going on in the markets.
[00:12:01]  But i'll tell you the real, real investors out there you want to look at the model portfolios because we have our research on all the stocks that we actually like and we're making a big change in one of them.
[00:12:10]  So stay tuned for that.
[00:12:11]  It's actually in the American Resilience portfolio.
[00:12:14]  Um, you know look, if you'd taken my advice, Our advice, over at 76 Research, you would have done very, very well.

=== Optimistic GDP Growth Forecast (03:30) ===

[00:12:21]  I mean, one of the first picks I think we put out was copper and Freeport-McMoran.
[00:12:25]  And you have only to look at the copper story, which is just tremendous, right?
[00:12:29]  Gold, obviously, silver, all of these things.
[00:12:31]  But I encourage you to go there.
[00:12:33]  Military rule is not off the table in Minneapolis at this hour.
[00:12:38]  The President of the United States coming out just moments ago.
[00:12:40]  I want to go straight to the tape speaking about the possibility of the Insurrection Act.
[00:12:44]  He doesn't want to use it, but he wants you to know.
[00:12:47]  He remains open to it.
[00:12:48]  And if he needs to, and I actually think he's going to need to, it's on the table.
[00:12:55]  Watch.
[00:12:56]  Well, the Insurrection Act, which has been used by 48% of the presidents as of this moment, the Insurrection Act also, if you look at it, I believe it was Bush, the elder Bush.
[00:13:09]  He used it, I think, 28 times.
[00:13:12]  It's been used a lot.
[00:13:14]  And if I needed it, I'd use it.
[00:13:15]  I don't think there's any reason right now to use it.
[00:13:18]  But if I needed it, I use it.
[00:13:20]  It's very powerful.
[00:13:22]  Well, yeah, it is very powerful.
[00:13:25]  You see, because you get to send the military in to keep the peace.
[00:13:29]  And look, we've done it before.
[00:13:30]  I mean, he mentioned, I don't know, about 48% of the time, I guess there's some sort of minor things that have happened along the way.
[00:13:36]  But the biggest one in recent memory, sort of in my memory, would be 1992.
[00:13:42]  And I sort of barely remember it, right?
[00:13:43]  Because I was still kind of a kid.
[00:13:47]  1992, I mean, it was Rodney King, right?
[00:13:51]  And they sent the troops in there to keep the peace in L.A. because of the riots that were ensuing.
[00:13:58]  And so that's one example.
[00:14:00]  The other big example in history would be going back to Eisenhower.
[00:14:03]  And they had to do this with Eisenhower because, you know, they didn't want to integrate in the state of Arkansas, the school they didn't want to integrate.
[00:14:12]  I mean, it's like Alabama, right?
[00:14:13]  When Kennedy had to send in the National Guard in Alabama because they didn't want to integrate there as well.
[00:14:18]  So this is the same kind of thing.
[00:14:19]  The state's like, Minnesota, well, we're not going to do this.
[00:14:21]  We're not going to go along with your immigration enforcement.
[00:14:24]  We're going to actually serve to impede ICE.
[00:14:27]  And that becomes a problem.
[00:14:28]  Jonathan Turley talking about this actually on Hannity last night.
[00:14:32]  I like Turley because he's an excellent, excellent constitutional law scholar.
[00:14:36]  Let's go to him explaining, yeah, guess what?
[00:14:38]  The president has every right to be able to do this.
[00:14:40]  He can invoke the Insurrection Act right now.
[00:14:44]  And I'm going to tell you guys, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens this weekend.
[00:14:48]  If things get out of control, it could indeed transpire.
[00:14:51]  Here's Turley.
[00:14:52]  I hope that this can be avoided, but if you're asking the question of does he have the authority to invoke it, I think he does.
[00:14:59]  The Insurrection Act is very generally worded.
[00:15:02]  It allows a president to call out military force in order to enforce the laws of the United States.
[00:15:10]  That was done by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy in very similar circumstances.
[00:15:16]  In those circumstances, you had local officials, including governors, who were extremely aggressive.
[00:15:22]  anti federal government saying they would not assist in the enforcement of civil rights laws.
[00:15:28]  These are obviously different laws.
[00:15:29]  These are the immigration laws, but both are laws of the United States.
[00:15:33]  And you have a governor here and a mayor who have been fueling the rage, uh, telling people that they're under attack.
[00:15:40]  You have Democratic senators just this week saying democracy might not last till November.
[00:15:46]  All of that's creating this, the very volatile situation.
[00:15:51]  So under the insurrect.