President Trump did not back down this weekend after torching “seriously retarded,” Minnesota’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz, for the shocking collapse of law and order under his watch — and for Walz’s years-long political obsession with turning Minnesota into a haven for mass Somali migration. When reporters asked about his recent comments, Trump doubled down, saying plainly that “there’s something wrong with him.”
The president’s blunt assessment came Sunday night as he returned to Washington following Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago. Asked about Walz — now the Democrats’ 2024 vice-presidential nominee — Trump said the governor’s track record speaks for itself.
“I think there’s something wrong with him. Absolutely,” Trump said. “Anybody that would do what he did, anybody that would allow those people into his state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia… It’s not even a functioning country. It’s got a name, but that’s about it.”
Trump has been highlighting the disturbing situation in Minnesota, where state and federal authorities have documented massive fraud, surging gang activity, and social disorder tied to the state’s massive Somali resettlement program. The president noted that Walz and Democratic lawmakers helped engineer the influx, then looked the other way as crime exploded.
On Thanksgiving night, Trump laid bare Walz’s failures on Truth Social, warning that “Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for ‘prey’” while law-abiding Minnesotans lock themselves indoors. Trump slammed Walz as doing “nothing — either through fear, incompetence, or both.”
Federal prosecutors have already charged at least 78 people — many from Minnesota’s Somali diaspora — for stealing tens of millions from a taxpayer-funded child nutrition program. More than 50 have been convicted. Yet Democrats continue treating Minnesota’s experiment as a model rather than a disaster.
Walz, clearly rattled by the national attention on his state’s failures, lashed out with personal attacks rather than facts. On Sunday, he demanded that Trump “release the MRI results” from his October physical — a cheap diversion tactic to avoid discussing the chaos under his administration.
Appearing on NBC’s *Meet the Press*, Walz tried to reframe Trump’s criticisms as evidence of instability rather than justified outrage over his own failed policies. “This is not normal behavior,” Walz insisted. “It’s clear the president’s fading physically.”
But Trump had the perfect response: transparency. “If they want to release it, it’s OK with me,” he told reporters, shrugging off Walz’s attempt to shift the conversation away from Minnesota’s very real crisis.
The contrast couldn’t be sharper. Trump is talking about gang violence, fraud networks, and the safety of American families. Walz is talking about Trump’s medical records. And while the media rushes to protect the Democratic VP nominee, Minnesotans continue living with the fallout of policies Walz championed — policies that opened the door to massive fraud, rising crime, and communities forced to live in fear.
In the end, Trump’s message resonated because it reflects what millions already see: under Democratic leadership, Minnesota has become a warning — and Trump is the only one willing to say it out loud.
