Trump admin preparing 1,500 soldiers for potential Minnesota deployment: report

President Donald Trump's medication is preparing 1,500 troops for imaginable deployment to Minnesota, The Washington Post reported Sunday citing unnamed defence officials.

Neither the White House nor the Pentagon person straight confirmed the deployment plans, but the White House told the Post successful a connection that the Department of War should beryllium "prepared for immoderate determination the President whitethorn oregon whitethorn not make."

The Pentagon did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.

The study comes conscionable days aft Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy U.S. subject forces to Minnesota if authorities officials bash not commencement cracking down connected anti-ICE agitators.

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President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing the deployment of 1,500 U.S. soldiers to Minnesota. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the instrumentality and halt the nonrecreational agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are lone trying to bash their job, I volition institute the INSURRECTION ACT," Trump posted connected his Truth Social platform.

Minneapolis and St. Paul are already hosting immoderate 3,000 national agents deployed determination aft a monolithic fraud ungraded rocked the authorities precocious past year.

Protesters crossed the Twin Cities person followed and harassed national agents arsenic they transportation retired operations, starring to confrontations and the sidesplitting of activistic Renee Nicole Good by national agents successful the opening days of January.

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Aliya Rahman is detained by national agents adjacent the country wherever Renee Nicole Good was fatally changeable by an ICE serviceman past week, connected Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, successful Minneapolis. (Adam Gray/AP)

Trump toned down the unit successful a connection connected Friday, saying helium did not spot astatine that constituent a crushed to invoke the Insurrection Act.

"I judge it was Bush, the elder Bush, helium utilized it, I deliberation 28 times," Trump told reporters portion departing the White House. "It's been utilized a lot. And if I needed it, I'd usage it. I don't deliberation there's immoderate crushed close present to usage it, but if I needed it, I'd usage it. It's precise powerful."

The instrumentality reportedly has not been invoked since the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which began aft 4 constabulary officers were acquitted successful the beating of Rodney King.

Despite Trump's threat, immoderate Republicans are resistant to the thought of utilizing the centuries-old law. 

Members of instrumentality enforcement enactment the country pursuing the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE cause during national operations connected January 7, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., seemed to downplay Trump's threat, placing his anticipation successful section instrumentality enforcement's quality to "settle things down."

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"Hopefully the section officials moving with not lone the national instrumentality enforcement, ICE and different agencies, but besides the section instrumentality enforcement officials volition beryllium capable to settee things down," Thune told reporters.

Fox News' Louis Casiano contributed to this report.