Trump’s Minnesota messaging shift

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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As the furor over this weekend’s deadly shooting in Minnesota continues to unfold, President Donald Trump appears to be shifting his approach. Trump is sidelining some administration officials and bringing in border czar Tom Homan to provide something of a steadier hand as the White House tries to contain the fallout. Playbook’s Jack Blanchard and White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns discuss what the shift means for the White House and the situation on the ground. Plus, Trump is headed to Iowa to kick off a midterm-year tour across America.

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0:30.3	Today on the Playbook podcast, Bye-bye, Bovino, Trump scales back the Minnesota clampdown.
0:37.5	Weren't we meant to be talking about affordability this year?
0:40.4	Donald Trump goes to Iowa today for another big speech and the US Navy is arriving in the Middle East.
0:47.0	So we'll be talking about Iran again as well.
0:49.7	Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.
0:51.1	And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Tuesday, January 27th.
0:56.5	Dasha, the climb down is on.
0:58.7	Who would have seen it coming yesterday?
1:00.9	Donald Trump making, I don't want to call it a U-turn,
1:04.2	but the change in tone on what's happening in Minnesota was extraordinary yesterday.
1:08.3	Maybe not a U-turn, but a gear shift for sure.
1:11.6	Gear shift. Not just in rhetoric, but in actual action. And we're going to see actual action today.
1:18.3	Immigration and border agents will start leaving Minnesota today, we believe. Not all of them,
1:23.2	but some of them. After the shift in turn, from the president of the estate. And among those
1:27.5	agents, Dasher will be there, I guess now former commander, Gregory Bevino. In his place, arrives the
1:33.6	borders are Tom Homan, Donald Trump talking to Tim Walts, talking to Jacob Faye, the mayor of
1:38.8	Minneapolis as well yesterday and Homer will be meeting them today. It's like a different world
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