It's been nearly a week since the death of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman who was shot by an ICE agent after she drove at the agent in her Honda Pilot. Several videos of the incident have surfaced on social media, each one adding to the evidence that Good was there to cause trouble.
Friends of Renee Good confirmed to the media that she had trained in ways to obstruct ICE agents through a local "ICE-Watch" group – a group that has been known to encourage its "activists" to use their vehicles as weapons. Seeing the footage of the incident and knowing that Renee Good could have used her SUV as a tactic to stop ICE agents changes everything. (Not to mention that one video shows Renee using her car to harass and annoy agents on the scene for at least a full three minutes before the shooting.)
I wrote in the days after the shooting that no one celebrates Renee Good's death, but I was wrong. Some people did. And it was hard to argue with their reasoning – she needlessly put herself and others in danger because her lefty politics were such that her emotions overrode her rationality and sense of self-preservation. And she's the latest in a long line of white liberal women to act foolishly because they hate Donald Trump.
Add in the fact that Renee Good had a young child (and the dog!) in her care, but brazenly thought nothing of him in that moment and presumed she could do as she pleased and the ICE agents would have to just take it. That's not how the real world works.
So, a lot of us find ourselves in the position of "two things can be true at once." We don't rejoice in Renee's death, but we recognize she was a victim only of her own bad decision making.
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President Trump seems to have found himself in that same exact position during a Tuesday interview with CBS News' Tony Dokoupil. Dokoupil revealed that he had been talking to Renee Good's father – and it sound like her father is a Trump fan – and was wondering what the president would say to her father if given the opportunity. Trump's response? "Well, I wanna say to the father that I love all of our people. They can be on the other side."
The president added, "And I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances, was a very solid, wonderful person. But, you know, her actions were pretty tough. And I've seen it many ways and many different shapes and forms. But the bottom line is, look, we have hundreds of thousands of murderers in our countries, killers. ICE is trying to get them out." (Video clip and full transcript of the president's comments are at the bottom of this post.)
And that's the exact right tone he should be striking as president – sympathy for the family, yet a fierce dedication to making the country safer for people like Renee Good and her 6-year-old son by removing criminals from our communities. He spoke Sunday on Air Force One of his anger and frustration that "paid agitators" were endangering federal law enforcement officers who were simply doing their jobs and carrying out what he was elected to do.
I don't know about you all, but I'm with President Trump here. I'm not happy that Renee Good is dead, but I am very angry at how she behaved that day and angrier still at the hundreds (thousands?) of other leftist agitators who are doing the same thing right now. They're putting us all in danger, and for what? Keeping rapists, murders, and child predators on the streets, apparently. That's a big "nope" from me, and I intend to keep writing about it to, hopefully, counter somewhat what the Affluent White Female Liberals are doing to our country.
On the death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minnesota, President Trump told @TonyDokoupil, “I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances, was a very solid, wonderful person,” while adding that her “actions… pic.twitter.com/Emu31Yy02N
— CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil (@CBSEveningNews) January 14, 2026
TONY DOKOUPIL: I've got an important question about the situation in Minnesota. The death of Renee Nicole Good. I've been speaking to her father, who is a big supporter of yours--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Good.
TONY DOKOUPIL: --like many Americans are. But he's heartbroken right now.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I can understand that, yeah.
TONY DOKOUPIL: He's heartbroken because his daughter is dead, that's obvious.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure.
TONY DOKOUPIL: He's also heartbroken because your administration so quickly has come out and said she's a domestic terrorist. What do you wanna say to her father right now?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I wanna say to the father that I love all of our people. They can be on the other side. As you say, he might be on my side, he's--
TONY DOKOUPIL: He is on your side.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And I think that's great. And-- and I do, I think it's great. And I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances, was a very solid, wonderful person. But, you know, her actions were pretty tough. And I've seen it many ways and many different shapes and forms. But the bottom line is, look, we have hundreds of thousands of murderers in our countries, killers. ICE is trying to get them out. They were let in through an open border policy of sleepy Joe Biden. ICE is working very hard to get them out. Their job is being made very, very difficult. And, you know, when you look at that tape, it-- it can be viewed two ways, I guess. But when you look at the way that was-- that car was pulled away-- there were a couple of versions of that tape that are very, very bad.
