Trump Struggles To Explain Video That Contradicts His ICE Claim In Minneapolis Tragedy

President Donald Trump on Wednesday sat down for more than two hours with four reporters for the New York Times, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Tyler Pager, Katie Rogers, and David E. Sanger.

In the interview, held within hours of the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, the Times reporters asked Trump about the killing.

In a wide-ranging conversation with four Times reporters, President Trump talked about the Minneapolis ICE shooting, immigration, Venezuela and even his plans for further White House renovations. Https://t.co/Fn1CSYEEhR pic.twitter.com/E9lS9dwpus

— Maxwell Black (@Coreandor) January 8, 2026

Per the Times, Trump had earlier claimed that Good, before she was shot, had “run over” the agent, and that Good was “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting.”

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The exchange went like this:

We were in the Oval Office for an interview with the president, and the unfolding situation in Minneapolis was high on our list of questions. As soon as we started asking him about the incident, he said: “I want to see nobody get shot. I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen either.”

When we pressed Mr. Trump on his conclusion that the victim, Renee Nicole Good, tried to run over the agent, he asked an aide to pull up the video on a laptop in an effort to prove his point.

“That was a vicious situation that took place,” Mr. Trump said, apparently referring to what federal officials have said was an effort by Ms. Good to run down an ICE agent.

The Times went on to describe the response as “a glimpse into Mr. Trump’s reflexive defense of what has become a sometimes-violent federal crackdown on immigration, which in this case claimed the life of an American citizen who was protesting ICE’s presence in Minneapolis.”

President Donald Trump Cornered on ICE Killing After Insult to Slain Minneapolis Mom Renee Nicole Good https://t.co/66kCuuVvNy

— Kat (@katsmit403) January 8, 2026

Per the Times’ report, the interview covered numerous topics, including “immigration, the U.S. strategy toward Venezuela, the Russia-Ukraine war, Greenland and NATO, his health, and his plans for further White House renovations.” At one point during the interview, the president took a phone call from the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, although the contents of that call were not on the record.

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