DAVID MARCUS: Spurning Trump means Mayor Jacob Frey owns Minneapolis mess

After protest, agitation and chaos rocked Minneapolis implicit the weekend, President Donald Trump has offered leaders determination an olive branch, and placed the governmental shot squarely successful their court.

Trump’s connection to Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz began with a precise existent concession, by replacing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and gung-ho Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino with the arguably much mean Border Czar Tom Homan connected the ground. The determination angered galore borderline hawks successful his ain party.

President Trump says helium spoke with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and announced borderline czar Tom Homan volition conscionable with him arsenic riots proceed amid migration enforcement. (Getty Images)

There are immoderate who legitimately fearfulness that if the hardcore agitators, who person been harassing and impeding national agents, spot this arsenic a win, it could dispersed similar wildfire crossed bluish cities.

But Trump didn’t lone connection carrots to the hapless enactment successful the Gopher State, helium besides included immoderate sticks. They came successful the signifier of precise basal demands to manus implicit amerciable immigrants successful Minnesota’s transgression justness system.

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Here are Trump’s 4 demands:

• Turn implicit illegals successful section jails oregon taxable to apprehension warrants to the feds.
• Have authorities and section instrumentality enforcement perpetrate to turning amerciable immigrants implicit to the feds.
• Make section constabulary assistance the feds way down and detain amerciable immigrants wanted for crimes.
• Partner with the feds to "protect American Citizens successful the accelerated removal of each Criminal Illegal Aliens successful our Country."

For Trump’s part, if these demands are met, helium promises to trim the national footprint successful Minnesota, because, frankly, galore agents wouldn’t beryllium needed anymore with practice from section police.

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Before we get to Frey’s profoundly irresponsible reply to this offer, we should beryllium wide that each 4 of these points should already beryllium successful practice, fixed the Constitution’s supremacy clause, arsenic they are successful astir American locales.

White House borderline czar Tom Homan deployed to Minnesota connected Jan. 26, 2026, to tally constituent connected the migration crackdown successful the state.  (Jim Watson/Getty Images)

So, the connection is basically, crook implicit your criminals similar the instrumentality says you must, and abruptly nary 1 is getting raided successful the wild, and nary "law-abiding" illegals are getting swept up successful the process.

Within hours of discussing Trump’s connection with Homan, Frey took to X saying helium made wide to the medication that "Minneapolis does not and volition not enforce migration law, and that we volition stay focused connected keeping our neighbors and streets safe."

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In different words, "Shove it, Mr. President."

On Wednesday, Trump fired back.

"Surprisingly, Mayor Jacob Frey conscionable stated that Minneapolis does not, and volition not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws. Could idiosyncratic successful his interior sanctum delight explicate that this connection is simply a precise superior usurpation of the Law, and that helium is PLAYING WITH FIRE!" helium wrote successful a station connected Truth Social.

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My lone quibble is that Trump claims helium was surprised.

For his part, Walz has frankincense acold taken a antithetic approach. After a gathering connected Tuesday with Homan, his bureau offered alternatively pleasantly, "The Governor and Homan agreed connected the request for an ongoing dialog and volition proceed moving toward those goals, which the President besides agreed to yesterday."

The cardinal quality present whitethorn good beryllium that portion Walz represents the full state, portion Frey represents lone loony Minneapolis wherever galore if not astir of his constituents bash not privation immoderate practice with Trump.

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In fact, connected Tuesday the capitol successful neighboring and arsenic lefty St Paul was stormed by protesters chanting ‘ICE retired now," and "Do your job," presumably a connection to their ain governor.

Walz is starting to dependable similar helium wants an offramp from the chaos, but Frey, of George Floyd epoch kneeling and weeping fame, isn’t acceptable to fto spell of his relation arsenic person of the Trump resistance, yet.

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What Frey’s obstinance successful the look of a communal consciousness solution tells Minnesota and the federation is that, for inexplicable reasons, helium values protecting transgression amerciable aliens implicit bid connected his ain streets.

Leadership is much than conscionable riding waves of fashionable sentiment, arsenic Trump showed by disappointing migration hardliners with his dressing down of Noem and Bovino. Sometimes, a person indispensable archer his ain radical of the request for compromise.

A Border Patrol subordinate capsicum sprays observers aft getting into a car mishap connected Blaisdell Avenue connected Jan. 21, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minn. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Hopefully, Frey understands that Trump’s connection is the champion accidental helium has to quell the chaos and unit that has rocked his city, assuming that is what helium wants, and assuming helium doesn't privation adjacent much clashes with the feds.

If Frey refuses, past Trump’s lone options volition beryllium to proceed operations oregon let a two-bit Minneapolis politician to single-handedly nullify national law, thing that indispensable not happen.

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Nobody knows what Trump is really threatening erstwhile helium says Frey is "playing with fire," but if the politician decides to basal not lone successful defiance of, but arguably successful rebellion to, the national government, past Trump volition nary uncertainty person each enactment to extremity that defiance connected the table.

Mayor Frey, the prime is yours.

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