‘These people are professionals!’ Trump says church invaders should be ‘thrown out of the Country’
PALM BEACH, Florida – President Donald Trump on Tuesday jumped into the national uproar over Sunday’s invasion of a Minnesota Christian church service by anti-ICE agitators, calling the activists professional troublemakers who should be jailed or “thrown out” of the United States.
“Just watched footage of the Church Raid in Minnesota by the agitators and insurrectionists,” Trump said in an early morning post on Truth Social after attending the national championship football game in Miami Gardens, Florida.
“These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing.
“They are troublemakers who should be thrown in jail, or thrown out of the Country. The first to go should be Walz, and Fake Sleazebag, Ilhan Omar, who is supposedly worth over $30 Million Dollars, even though she’s never had anything but a Government job. Investigate these Corrupt Politicians, and do it now!”
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon appeared on Newsmax Monday, addressing the actions of former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who claims he was acting as a journalist to document the protest.
“You don’t have a right to protest in somebody’s house, and that was God’s house,” Dhillon explained.
“The First Amendment doesn’t apply to your barging in as a trespasser into God’s house and literally violating federal law by disrupting a worship in progress and terrorizing children and moms and making them cry and running out the back door. And then he goes out and he says this was the whole purpose, we want to put people in fear so that they rethink their policies.”
No one has a right to protest by trespassing into a private house—especially a house of God almighty.
Freedom of the press does not protect journalists, nor anyone else, when they are actively committing crimes. @AGPamBondi’s @TheJusticeDept won’t stand for it! pic.twitter.com/4cLHdlu3Vk
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) January 20, 2026
“He’s backtracking [now] and I think he realizes he’s in hot water now by some of his statements he made yesterday to try to clean up what he did after I got activated and the attorney general got activated on this. But the First Amendment does not protect journalists when they’re committing crimes themselves.”
#EXCLUSIVE “This will not be repeated…” @AAGDhillon says they are going to use the full weight of the federal government to prosecute those involved in the protests at the church yesterday adding they could face felony charges: https://t.co/F0QtG92DEu pic.twitter.com/i8KSiH1BbE
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) January 19, 2026
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared on “The Will Cain Show” Monday, saying: “Freedom of the press extends to a lot of different areas. It does not extend to somebody just trespassing and being embedded with a group of rioters and being part of the group that storms inside of a church.”
.@DAGToddBlanche: Freedom of the press extends to a lot of different areas. It does not extend to somebody just trespassing and being embedded with a group of rioters and being part of the group that storms inside of a church… the fact that Mr. Lemon thought that was a good… pic.twitter.com/I7kXXsitE3
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 19, 2026
“The fact that Mr. Lemon thought that was a good idea to do that, and then to race away from it saying it was ‘freedom of the press,’ well, we’ll see.”
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