Politicizing to Meet Agendas
2025 August
2025-08-22 After the killing of Iryna Zarutska, several right-wing commentators used the case to argue for National Guard deployment in Charlotte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Iryna_Zarutska
2025 October
2025-10-01 The White House posted partisan anti-Democrat shutdown messaging across federal websites (research the Hatch Act and violating it). Messages included “Democrats Have Shut Down the Government” and “The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people”.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/
2025 November
2025-11-27 Trump posted on social media, claiming that “hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone”. He also made similar posts roughly a week prior. As part of this post, Trump made it a point to attack Governor Tim Walz, calling Minnesota a “hub of money laundering”. During an interview on CNN, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar stated “…this is what he does, and he tries to stoke division and make people hate each other”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115625429081411360
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115590786862216464
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/walz-klobuchar-trump-attack-minnesota-00671132
2026 July
2026-07-14 When asked why ICE agents weren’t wearing body cams, Tom Homam claimed the Democrats were to blame for blocking funding for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPZfv0mLydE&list=WL&index=7
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/us/body-cameras-ice-agents-shootings