President Donald Trump defended his vice president’s claim about Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday. JD Vance had said Good was part of a “leftwing network” trying to incite violence against federal agents, a claim with no evidence to back it up.
According to The Guardian, when a Fox News reporter pressed Trump on Vance’s comments, he said his vice president “is generally very accurate.” He added that someone near Good when she died was “probably a paid agitator,” suggesting that the reaction of bystanders in videos was staged.
Trump also referenced a video showing federal agents killing Good. “I watched that,” Trump said. “There was a woman screaming: ‘Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!’ She was a[n] 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.”
Trump’s bizarre theory about protesters lacks any real evidence
But Trump’s claim that only paid protesters would scream at ICE agents doesn’t match reality. Hundreds of recorded incidents over the past year show regular people reacting this way. The video shows someone screaming “shame” at two different times.
First, the person screamed it twice as agents tried to pull Good from her car before opening fire. Later, as the person got closer to the agent who killed Good, they or someone near them shouted the word eight more times as he walked away. This latest controversy adds to Trump’s recent foreign policy decisions that have raised eyebrows.
Trump also complained that the screaming made it hard for him to watch the video on TV. He said news outlets “turned her down, turned her off” because she was “so loud and so crazy and just not normal.” Trump claimed that when people see something like a neighbor being shot at close range, “they don’t go screaming and screaming, and the same words.”
“The news sort of turned her down, turned her off because you’re trying to watch – she was so loud and so crazy and just not normal,” he said.“When somebody sees something like that,” he said, referring to the point-blank shooting of a neighbor, “they don’t go screaming and screaming, and the same words. So, I guess you could say, professional, but I didn’t think she did a very good job.”
Trump finished by saying “You have agitators and we will always be protecting ICE, and we’re always going to be protecting our border patrol and our law enforcement.” The president has been making bold claims lately, including his statements about Venezuela’s oil wealth.
Published: Jan 10, 2026 03:45 pm