It feels tired in 2026 to describe things as “Orwellian”. But it’s hard to escape the fact that the White House is telling you to reject evidence of your eyes and ears”. Here’s the most unhinged moments from Trumpworld in the last 24 hours
Donald Trump and JD Vance continued to lie about the Minnesota shooting and smear the character of victim Reese Good last night.
It feels tired in 2026 to describe things as “Orwellian”. But it’s hard to escape the fact that the White House is telling you to reject evidence of your eyes and ears”.
Thing is, the Trump administration knows the worst that’s going to happen if they continue to insist the Earth is flat is that CBS, under its new supine leadership, will report that people can’t agree on the shape of the Earth and call it “unbiased journalism.”
And for some people who don’t look at things too closely, that’ll be enough to reinforce their views about ICE, protesters, women or women who protest.
Meanwhile, in Trumpland
- The ICE agent’s video proves Trump and Vance wrong
- Vance insists it proves him right
- Trump acted very strangely at Venezuela meeting
- Lammy and Vance agree on Grok deepfakes
- DHS is posting White Nationalist code again
- Trump says he’ll get Greenland “whether they like it or not”
Here’s what you need to know
1. ICE Agent’s video proves Trump and Vance wrong
Video taken by the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minnesota on Wednesday was apparently leaked to a right wing website, Alpha News, last night. The video clearly shows Good steering to drive around and away from him when she was shot, in direct contradiction to Trump and Vance’s claims that she was deliberately trying to run him over. Interestingly, it also shows him changing his phone from his right hand to his left hand ten seconds before the fatal shots were fired, which freed up his right hand to draw the weapon.
We have a full frame-by-frame breakdown of the new video compared to previous footage here.
2. Trump and Vance continued to steer into the wave
Even after the new footage was published, JD Vance continued to insist it backed up his false claim that Good was deliberately trying to run the ICE agent over.
“Watch this, as hard as it is,” he implored, retweeting the video. “Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn’t hit by a car, wasn’t being harassed, and murdered an innocent woman. The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self defence.”
He went on to claim it was ridiculous to suggest the shooter fired through the side window of the car because: “You can see the photos of the car with bullet holes.” In fact, photos of the car show only one bullet hole in the front windscreen, because the second and third shots were fired into the open side window as the car had already passed the agent.
Vance added: “The shots came from the front of the car because that’s where the officer was standing when he was hit by the car. He is allowed to discharge his weapon in self defence”.
Literally no element of those two sentences is true. One shot came from the front, the others from the side. He was standing to the front left of the car, which had passed him by the time his second shot was fired. He is also not allowed to discharge his weapon in “self defence” against a moving vehicle, according to Department for Homeland Security guidelines.
Moreover, as previously mentioned, he was standing near the front left of the car, which (because she’d already full-locked the steering wheel away from him) sped off to the right when he shot her. If she had wanted to run him over, she would have run him over.
Meanwhile, Trump seized upon the cries of “shame” at the ICE agent who pulled the trigger, suggesting whoever’s voice could be heard in the video he watched was somehow “not normal”, and that it was evidence they were a “professional agitator.”
“I watched that yesterday and there were a lot of different forms to it,” he said.
“But there was a woman screaming “shame, shame, shame, shame.” She was an agitator. Probably a paid agitator, but in my opinion she was an agitator. A very high level agitator. So professional. She wouldn’t stop screaming. I said ‘this isn’t a normal situation’. She was a professional troublemaker, because you heard it and I heard it.”
“I will say this, the news sort of turned her off, because you’re trying to watch. She was so loud and so crazy. And just not normal. When somebody sees something like that, they don’t go screaming and screaming and the same words, so I guess you could say professional but I don’t think she did a very good job.
“You have agitators, and we will always be protecting ICE and we’re always going to be protecting our border control and our law enforcement.”
3. Trump acted very strangely at the meeting of Oil and Gas companies
Donald Trump hosted a gaggle of oil and gas firms at the White House last night, most of them thirsty to get involved with America’s raid of Venezuelan assets.
And the President acted very, very strangely.
To start with, during a weave about his forthcoming vanity ballroom, he suddenly stood up and ambled towards a patio door behind him, looking out the window to the building site outside and making approving noises.
The door, he eventually revealed, will be the door to the ballroom once it’s built. But the moment absolutely screamed “grandpa is having a moment.”
Later in the meeting, Marco Rubio passed him a private note suggesting he speak again to one of the oil barons round the table, which Trump duly read out loud.
4. He also wore a cartoon pin of himself
Reporters noticed he was wearing a different pin on his lapel and asked about it. He revealed it was a “happy Trump” pin, which he’d been given by someone earlier in the day.
5. DHS is posting white nationalist content again
Regular readers will recall that of late the Department for Homeland Security has been posting increasingly overt white nationalist content to its account on X.
In October they posted a meme featuring the phrase “America for Americans”, which was a KKK slogan.
A month earlier, the account tweeted a post that read: “Which way, American man?” – a pretty clear reference to Which Way, Western Man, a 1978 book by neo-Nazi William Gayley Simpson. The book contains passages arguing Hitler was right, and calling for violence against Jews in order to “break their grip” on “the White man’s world”.
And in July, they posted a painting of a family of white homesteaders during the Westward expansion of the US. There’s a black woman, presumably a servant, in the background.
The tweet read: “Remember your heritage.”
I reel out the examples only so new readers won’t give the benefit of the doubt, and assume it’s an unfortunate coincidence.
So yesterday the account tweeted a meme featuring the phrase “We’ll have our home again”. The phrase is the title of an anthem, popular among the “Mannerbund”, a white separatist, white nationalist men’s movement. The phrase, and song, has also been used by the Proud Boys and UK based racist group Patriotic Alternative.
The Department for Homeland Security, the US government department that oversees ICE, is routinely pushing out white supremacist content and we need to make our peace with that.
6. Trump says he’ll have Greenland by hook or by crook
If the US doesn’t take control of Greenland, Russia or China will invade, Trump claimed last night – doubling down on his threat to the territory.
Speaking at an event with oil companies hoping to be involved in Trump’s raid of Venezuelan resources, the US President said he’d get his hands on Greenland the “easy way” or the “hard way”. He was asked how much money he’d offer Greenlanders in a bid to buy the territory, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark – but said he isn’t talking about money “yet.”
“Right now, we are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not because if we don’t do it Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbour. Okay? I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way.”
He added: “We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not.”
7. And he says he believes he won Minnesota, despite losing there three times
Trump once again claimed he won Minnesota. Or at least, it’s his opinion that he did.
“I feel I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. Nobody has won it since Richard Nixon won it many many years ago. I won it all three times in my opinion. It’s a corrupt state,” he said. “I did so well in that state. The people were crying every time after.”
For the record, Trump lost Minnesota, badly, in all three elections.
8. Lammy and JD are on the same page about Grok’s AI deepfake nightmare
David Lammy and JD Vance apparently spoke about the fury over Elon Musk’s Grok system allowing users to create sexualised images of real women and children.
“We discussed Greenland and I also raised with him the Grok issue and the horrendous, horrific situation in which this new technology is allowing deepfakes and the manipulation of images of women and children, which is just absolutely abhorrent. He agreed with me that it was entirely unacceptable,” Lammy told the Guardian.
Asked if the Vice President was sympathetic to the UK government’s position on Grok, Lammy said: “I think he recognised the very seriousness with which images of women and children could be manipulated in this way, and he recognised how despicable, unacceptable, that is and I found him sympathetic to that position. And in fact, we’ve been in touch again, today, about this very serious issue.”