NEW Viral Video Makes Even Trump Fans Turn Against ICE

What this episode is about

The content highlights the escalating violence and abuses by ICE officers in Minneapolis, particularly in the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Good. It details a disturbing incident where an autistic disabled woman was violently arrested while attempting to seek medical help, illustrating a troubling pattern of aggression by ICE that has prompted even some Trump supporters to reconsider their stance on the agency.

Key takeaways

• ICE's current tactics resemble an unsettling 'who-can-be-the-most-terrifying' competition—armed officers versus terrified civilians.
• Polling data shows a shocking global shift: 50% of viewers believe Renee Good's shooting was unjustified, transcending partisan lines.
• With 6:1 ICE agent ratios in Minneapolis, residents might wonder if they're living in a community or a battleground.
• Recent ICE recruits lack vetting, raising alarms: are we hiring for protection or simply ‘licensed violence’?
• Masked ICE agents make accountability nearly impossible—today's streets face a chilling question: where's the line between law and oppression?

Who speaks in this episode?

• John (Guest) · 5 min speaking
• Peter Hamby (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Tim Dylan (Guest) · 1 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Renee Mlin Good, ICE, DHS, Minnesota
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Renee Mlin Good, American citizens, DHS, ICE
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Tim Dylan, American citizens, Renee Mlin Good, Alex Jones
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Pod Save America, Renee Mlin Good, American citizens, Peter Hamby
5. 12:00 – 12:58: Cook Unity

Notable quotes from "NEW Viral Video Makes Even Trump Fans Turn Against ICE"

• Ever since an ICE officer in Minnesota killed Renee Good, a 37year-old mother of three, the internet has been flooded with videos of shocking ICE abuses like this one.

  about Renee Mlin Good · at 0:00

• How many more videos we have to watch at this point. And every single time there's a video, you see the MAGA Chuds on social media picking it apart. Well, she was trying to do…

  about MAGA Chuds · at 1:31

• Are joining ICE right now are joining because they want to beat the out of people because you are licensed by the state to use violence against in this case American citizens.…

  about American citizens · at 2:52

• Commands without fighting back. Force is obviously against the law. All that other stuff I just said, according to DHS, is not against the law. And yet, they are continuing to…

  about DHS · at 3:38

• Which turn out to actually be US citizens that just don't have their papers on them. Are we really going to be the Gestapo? Where's your papers?

  about Gestapo · at 5:45

• A way that is remotely appropriate. Like they are thugs. They Tim Dylan said later in that clip, they are people who got rejected from the backyard wrestling circuit. but like…

  about Tim Dylan · at 8:47

• Thank you for subscribing to Pods of America on YouTube. It really helps a lot because there's a lot of right-wing in the YouTube algorithm trying to justify the execution of a mom in.

  about Pod Save America · at 10:42

• You can at least just speak out right now because it's dangerous and it's getting worse. Pods of America is brought to you by Cook Unity. I have been using Cook Unity forever…

  about Cook Unity · at 11:47

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Renee Mlin Good — Person · Central referenced victim · 7 mentions · first at 0:01
  Her killing by an ICE officer is the focal incident used to discuss ICE conduct, public opinion, and viral video impact. The episode repeatedly references her as a mother and as a symbol of perceived ICE brutality.
• Tim Dylan — Person · Referenced commentator · 3 mentions · first at 7:35
  A clip of Dylan mocking ICE recruits is used to argue humor can undermine authoritarianism and to portray ICE as unprofessional and violent.
• Peter Hamby — Person · Referenced analyst/reporter · 2 mentions · first at 3:56
  Hamby's reporting is used to support claims about polling, virality, and ICE favorability swings after the Renee Good shooting.
  Only good news is that this story is breaking through like very few political stories do. Our friend Peter Hamby over at Puck News had a great breakdown of both the polling and…
• Alex Jones — Person · Referenced media figure · 1 mention · first at 6:12
  Mentioned as having long warned of federal overreach; the speaker claims ICE behavior resembles an 'Alex Jones fever dream' becoming real.
  American citizens, beating up anybody demanding papers. Like this, what is happening with ICE right now is the Alex Jones fever dream that he's been ranting about on the radio…

Companies & orgs

• ICE — Company · Core topic · 3 mentions · first at 0:00
  ICE is portrayed as conducting violent, unaccountable enforcement actions in Minneapolis, including the killing of Renee Good and other alleged abuses. The episode centers on public backlash, legality, and political consequences of ICE tactics.
  Ever since an ICE officer in Minnesota killed Renee Good, a 37year-old mother of three, the internet has been flooded with videos of shocking ICE abuses like this one.
• DHS — Company · Referenced authority / policy source · 3 mentions · first at 1:42
  DHS is cited as issuing statements and memos defining what is and isn't illegal behavior toward ICE, used to argue ICE assaults are unjustified and unlawful.
• Puck News — Company · Referenced media outlet · 2 mentions · first at 3:56
  Puck News is cited as the outlet where Peter Hamby published analysis of polling and virality around the Renee Good video and ICE favorability.
  Only good news is that this story is breaking through like very few political stories do. Our friend Peter Hamby over at Puck News had a great breakdown of both the polling and…

Concepts & topics

• American citizens — Concept · Core moral/legal frame · 5 mentions · first at 3:01
  The speakers emphasize that ICE actions are affecting U.S. citizens, strengthening the argument that tactics are abusive, unlawful, and politically damaging.
• Gestapo — Concept · Rhetorical analogy · 1 mention · first at 5:48
  Used by Joe Rogan to compare ICE 'papers' demands and masked enforcement to authoritarian secret police, underscoring civil-liberties concerns.
• Execution — Concept · Moral framing / accusation · 1 mention · first at 10:48
  The speaker characterizes Renee Good's killing as an 'execution' and claims right-wing actors justify it, intensifying the moral condemnation of ICE actions.
  America on YouTube. It really helps a lot because there's a lot of right-wing in the YouTube algorithm trying to justify the execution of a mom in Minneapolis for trying to…
• MAGA Chuds — Concept · Referenced online faction · 1 mention · first at 1:36
  Used to describe pro-Trump social media users who allegedly rationalize or 'pick apart' videos of ICE abuse, highlighting online polarization and propaganda dynamics.
• Trump era — Concept · Political context frame · 1 mention · first at 10:04
  Invoked to describe a period where people felt 'nothing matters' politically; contrasted with evidence that ICE videos are shifting public opinion.
  It is sickening. And again, sometimes in the Trump era, there's this sentiment you'd see online that was Lol, nothing matters, right? Like nothing will change his approval rating.

Places & events

• Minnesota — Place · Setting (state-level) · 1 mention · first at 0:00
  Minnesota is cited as the state where the ICE officer killed Renee Good, anchoring the events geographically.
  Ever since an ICE officer in Minnesota killed Renee Good, a 37year-old mother of three, the internet has been flooded with videos of shocking ICE abuses like this one.

Media & podcasts

• Pod Save America — Media · Show / platform · 2 mentions · first at 10:42
  The transcript is framed as content from Pod Save America (and 'Pods of America' on YouTube), positioning the discussion as progressive commentary and a call to subscribe.
• Slate — Media · Referenced reporting source · 2 mentions · first at 2:39
  Slate is referenced for an 'incredible story' about a journalist signing up to be an ICE officer, used to argue ICE recruiting/vetting is lax and attracts violent applicants.
  And that slate piece that you referenced earlier, that reporter who tried to apply for ICE, she and she's, former army. She went to Afgh served two tours in Afghanistan. And she.

Sponsors

• Cook Unity — Company · Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at 11:51
  Cook Unity appears in the ad read at the end, promoted as a meal delivery service supporting the podcast.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Ever since an ICE officer in Minnesota killed Renee Good, a 37year-old mother of three, the internet has been flooded with videos of shocking ICE abuses like this one. I just touch people my police. I'M DISABLED TRYING to go to THE DOCTOR UP THERE. SO, IT'S IT'S IT'S OBVIOUSLY VERY HARD TO HEAR WHAT everyone's saying there because there's honking and screaming. But what the woman says is, "I've been beat up by police before. I'm disabled. I'm trying to go to the doctor up there. That's why I couldn't move. I'm an autistic disabled person. I'm trying to go to the doctor." And in response, I smashes her window, cuts her seat belt, drags her out of the car, and arrests her. And this happened, I think, two blocks from where Renee Good was shot six days later. So, this is this is the lesson these ICE officers are learning.

1:17 John, double down. Attack autistic people. They are terrorizing Minneapolis right now. There is like a 6:1 ratio of uh ICE and C CBP agents uh to Minneapolis police. And um I don't know how many more videos we have to watch at this point. And every single time there's a video, you see the MAGA Chuds on uh social media picking it apart. Well, she was trying to do this and then DHS put out a statement on this. She tried to wedge her car between officers. You can clearly see the fear in that woman's face. She is not a she's not a protester. She wasn't trying to do anything. She was scared shitless even before they pulled her out of the car.

1:56 The thing I thought about watching that is, "Oh, gee, I wonder why Renee Good tried to drive away when the officers were screaming at her because this woman, she's tried to drive away because they told her to move and then as she went, you know, 10 ft in the car, they smashed the window and dragged her out of the car. Did they charge her with anything?" No, they didn't charge her with anything because they're not charging people with anything. just like the kid in Target that they beat the out of and then threw out of the van uh like 100 feet away from from Target. So, they're not these people aren't committing crimes. They can they can continue to say it's obstruction, it's impeding arrest. Well, then charge people with that, but you're not because you're just beating the out of people.

2:35 Yeah, this is important. I think like these these new ICE recruits are totally unqualified. There's this incredible story on Slate where this journalist signed up to be an ICE officer. They did no vetting of this person. They failed the drug test. It's like clearly like an online like random person. They just got accepted into ICE. Like the people who are joining ICE right now are joining because they want to beat the out of people because you are licensed by the state to use violence against in this case American citizens. And we that that is why people are scared to death of ICE. King Clippenstein um uh got hold of some DHS memos that went out to officers in Min ICE officers in Minneapolis to just like let them know what they're what they're supposed to be doing, what the law is. Here's what's not a violation. According to DHS, a DHS memo that went out in Minneapolis.

3:23 Here's what's not a violation of the law. telling ICE agents to go themselves, swearing at them, flipping off ICE agents, yelling at ICE agents, filming ICE agents, refusal to cooperate with ICE agents demands and disobeying commands without fighting back. Force is obviously against the law. All that other stuff I just said, according to DHS, is not against the law. And yet, they are continuing to physically assault people over that,

3:49 including American citizens. Um, the only good news is that this story is breaking through like very few political stories do. Our friend Peter Hamby over at Puck News had a great breakdown of both the polling and the kind of social virality of these horrifying videos just like this one. But, you know, there there was a poll out by The Economist and Yuggov that found that 69% of Americans had seen the video of the shooting of Renee Good. Um, of those who saw the clip, a majority, 50% said the shooting was not justified. um only 30% said the killing was justified. So again, this narrative you're seeing online that like, oh, this is a political rosac test and everyone just views this through a partisan lens. It's not really true. The majority of the country is like this is horrifying and this is clearly uh driving down favorability of ICE across the country um with all kinds of voters. Now, here

4:39 is one example. Uh this is a clip from a recent episode of Joe Rogan. So folks know like Joe Rogan was you know he endorsed Trump in the last election. He's sort of more he's mostly just a lowinformation voter who tends to be independent uh and not all that well informed. But this is what he said about the shooting of Renee Good and ISIS's, you know, actions throughout the country. Let's watch.

5:00 I think after that woman was shot, I think unfortunately, well, everything is unfortunate about it, right? But one of the one of the real problems is now ICE are villains and now people are looking at them like murderous military people that are on the streets of our city and they're masked up, which is also a problem, right? Because if you get arrested by a cop, you you're allowed to ask the cop, "What is your name and badge number?" And you could film that cop. If you get arrested by an ICE agent, you have no such right. They're wearing a mask. They don't have to tell you That's a problem. That's a problem on our city streets, right?

5:37 Because you you could also pretend to be an ICE agent. You don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be US citizens that just don't have their papers on them. Are we really going to be the the Gestapo? Where's your papers? Is that what we've come to?

5:54 Again, like I think great example of how I don't actually think this is a partisan issue. I think m overwhelming majorities of the country don't want masked anonymous federal law enforcement officials coming to your home beating up American citizens, beating up anybody demanding papers. Like this, what is happening with ICE right now is the Alex Jones fever dream that he's been ranting about on the radio in Austin for decades. It is coming to life and like the good news is it is breaking through with some elements of the conservative world. Yeah, I've seen now maybe four or five polls um mix of public polls and some private polling as well. And I was actually just surprised by the remarkable consistency in all of the polling. In just about every poll, every way you ask the question, only about a third, one in three people pled, uh, thinks there's any kind of justification for what happened to Renee Good, likes

6:49 ICE, thinks that Renee Good was a domestic terrorist, thinks that ICE is doing a good job, thinks that they shouldn't should be able to do what they're doing without a warrant. And overwhelmingly over 50% in all those polls, people think that this is horrendous. And if you break down by party, obviously Republicans think more Republicans think this is fine. It's still like twothirds of Republicans um that think it's fine. And for independents overwhelming. There's like 15 20% of independents in all these polls that think it's okay. So this is and and I think that's why we're seeing people like Joe Rogan speak out against it.

7:22 Yeah. And by the way, you know, the latest Gallup survey shows like the the number of people identifying as independents is skyrocketing in this country, right? So that's a very important metric. Uh let's watch one last clip from another conservative, he's not really conservative commenter uh commentator. This is uh Tim Dylan. He's a comedian and podcaster. He was proTrump in the last election, but has since broken with him on a number of issues like the Epstein files and then this is him talking about these ICE rates. Let's watch. Then you have ICE.

7:50 And who the hell are they? We don't even know. These are people that like answered an ad on Craigslist. I mean, we you don't even I mean, these people who is joining I mean these people are so shot. The people who are joining ICE are so shot, you know, they just they don't have anything going on. These are people who like a mall throughout because they like they couldn't do like security at a mall. They like, you know, I don't know what they did, but they're out now. They maybe attacked a child or something. So, I don't know who's, you know, these are they got ICE in there. I I love that clip because I do think like humor is one of the best ways you chop down an authoritarian. Like we do not have to pretend that these ICE officers who are brutalizing American citizens or brutalizing people that they're trying to deport from the country deserve our respect, that they know what they're doing, that they're professional, that

8:45 they are trained, that they're acting in a way that is remotely appropriate. Like they are thugs. They Tim Dylan said later in that clip, they are people who got rejected from the backyard wrestling circuit. Um, but like what you know what Steven Miller wants is to send them to our cities, to send them to liberal cities to pick fights with American citizens to further justify his crackdown. Like that is the goal here. And that slate piece that you referenced earlier, that reporter who tried to apply for ICE, she um and she's, you know, former army. She went to Afgh served two tours in Afghanistan. And she goes before she did it online, she went to like one of the recruitment um sort of like, you know, fairs that they're having for ICE. And so she and she was with a bunch of other people who asked questions of the recruiters. And it is it's really worth reading the the whole piece because they're saying things

9:31 like, you know, you go into these liberal cities and some of these protesters are forming a human wall and and then you know what you do? You just pop them. You pop them with some tear gas and let them cry and disperse and figure it out. Who cares? And then you know they're ask she's she's applying and they're like well you know you might have to do some paperwork first. Everyone who wants to who applies for this job, they want to immediately go out on the streets and just start arresting people and tackling people.

9:53 But you you got to do a little you got to wait a little bit until you get to that one. But don't worry, we'll get you out on the streets with a badge soon enough.

9:59 Like it's just it's so unprofessional. It is so gross. It is sickening. And again, you know, sometimes um in the Trump era, there's this sentiment you'd see online that was like, "Lol, nothing matters, right? Like nothing will change his approval rating. Nothing will change the approval of the public." So again, this is from Peter Hamy's piece on puck. After Trump's inauguration, ICE had a plus 16 net favorability rating with Americans. According to Yuggov, now the agency is underwater with a negative 14 point favorability rating. That is a 30 point swing since January. These videos matter. Your activism matters. People talking about this, sharing these stories, calling your member of Congress, it really, really matters. And by the way, that's why, you know, independent media matters. That's why we're doing what we do here at Cricut Media. So, thank you for watching this.

10:42 Thank you for subscribing to Pods of America on YouTube. It really helps a lot because there's a lot of right-wing in the YouTube algorithm trying to justify the execution of a mom in Minneapolis uh for trying to drive away from an ICE thug and we're trying to build a progressive media company where we get you factual information. We get you progressive information and we reach people that actually are persuadable because it really does matter. Um so thank you for watching this. Uh thank you for, you know, listening to Podsave America. Consider being a subscriber. or go to crooked.com/friend if you want to uh uh do even more. And I don't know, John, any more any final thoughts on what we watched here?

11:17 No, it is really important to to share these videos. And I also said this in the pod the other day, but if you are if you are someone uh with a big following especially, but you've been a small following um and you've been quiet up till now. I I I understand all the reasons for that, but it is really important to speak out and to let everyone else in the country know because I do think that like speaking out becomes contagious. is to let everyone else in the country know that you don't think this is okay and um you don't have to get in politics. You don't have to wave the flag for Democrats, but you can at least just speak out right now because it's dangerous and it's getting worse. Pods of America is brought to you by Cook Unity. I have been using Cook Unity forever, for years, long before they ever sponsored this podcast. It is fantastic. Uh most of my meals are from Cook Unity. They deliver chef designed meals that balance

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "NEW Viral Video Makes Even Trump Fans Turn Against ICE"?

John (Guest), Peter Hamby (Guest), Tim Dylan (Guest).

What is "NEW Viral Video Makes Even Trump Fans Turn Against ICE" about?

The content highlights the escalating violence and abuses by ICE officers in Minneapolis, particularly in the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Good. It details a disturbing incident where an autistic disabled woman was violently arrested while attempting to seek medical help, illustrating a troubling pattern of aggression by ICE that has prompted even some Trump supporters to reconsider their…

What is mentioned in this Pod Save America episode?

16 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Renee Mlin Good, ICE, American citizens, DHS, Tim Dylan, Peter Hamby. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "NEW Viral Video Makes Even Trump Fans Turn Against ICE"?

The episode runs 13 min; the transcript is about 2,505 words in 21 timestamped sections.

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