Trump’s Post Wasn’t the Problem. Walz’s Fraud Is.

You know America has lost its marbles when the entire media melts down over a word in a Trump post while a billion dollars in fraud just walked out the back door in Minnesota.

President Trump went on Truth Social and called Tim Walz “the seriously retarded governor of Minnesota.” The View clutched their pearls, the headlines exploded, and everybody suddenly became a moral philosopher on “ableist language.”

Meanwhile, more than 400 Minnesota state employees are accusing this same governor of looking the other way while massive fraud exploded under his watch. Whole fake companies, fake autism treatments, COVID money blown, and a lot of it tied to parts of the Somali community in Minnesota.

So let me be very clear. The problem in Minnesota is not the word Trump used. The problem is the governor who let criminals eat off taxpayer money while working families struggled to pay for groceries.

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Minnesota Is Bleeding Taxpayer Money

I do not want you to miss what is actually happening in Minnesota while the left pretends to cry about “offensive” language.

You have a group that says it represents more than 480 current employees at the Minnesota Department of Human Services. They went public and said Tim Walz is “100 percent responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota.”

Not kind of responsible. Not “mistakes were made.” They said 100 percent.

According to the reporting you just heard in the clip, here is what is going on:

• Fraud estimates are over 1 billion dollars.

• At least 50 people convicted.

• 78 people charged.

• A lot of suspects are concentrated in Minnesota’s Somali community.

• Fake companies were allegedly set up just to bill the state for services that never happened.

• There were claims about parents getting kickbacks for saying their kid was autistic so they could get benefits.

All this on top of the Feeding Our Future scandal where hundreds of millions in COVID food money were stolen through bogus “feeding programs” that never fed kids the way they were supposed to.

You mean to tell me the big crisis is a Trump post?

If you are governor, and you watch a billion dollars walk out the door while whistleblowers inside your own agencies say, “We warned you, and you retaliated against us,” that is not a language problem. That is a leadership problem. That is a moral problem.

And I am supposed to be more outraged about a word than about a billion dollars stolen from taxpayers?

Nah. Not happening.

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Trump’s Post, The “R-Word,” And What People Pretend Not To Understand

Let us talk about the word everybody is pretending to be shocked by.

Trump wrote this long Truth Social post tearing into Walz and Ilhan Omar. Buried in all that text he said “the seriously retarded governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing either through fear, incompetence, or both,” and the media acted like he just committed a crime against humanity.

Let me address something up front, because people emailed me about it.

Somebody wrote me and said, “Brandon, stop using the word retarded.”

Here is the truth: I am not using the word against people with special needs. When I hear that word in 2025, I do not associate it with a disabled person. I associate it with somebody acting willfully ignorant.

Now people will say, “But historically it described people with mental disabilities.” That is true. There was a clinical term, “mental retardation,” which doctors and schools used at one point. Over time that changed. Now we say “intellectual disability,” “special needs,” and all of that.

So why do some people still get offended?

Because deep down, they are the ones connecting that word to their own loved ones. They hear Trump use it about Walz, and immediately they think about their child or their sibling, then accuse everyone else of being “ableist.”

If you say, “Trump used the word retarded, and that hurts my disabled brother,” what you just admitted is that you think your brother and Tim Walz are in the same category. Trump did not say that. You did.

That is the trick. They project their own association onto everybody else, then pretend the whole country is attacking disabled people, when in reality we are just criticizing crooked or incompetent politicians.

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The View: Fake Compassion, Real Hypocrisy

Now let us talk about those ladies on The View.

They put up Trump’s quote, and you would think the world was ending. “Using that term is so damaging.” “We have fought for decades to remove that word from schools.” “He is normalizing cruelty.” On and on and on.

One of them even said she never uses that word because she has a disabled sibling and she is worried about how people treat those with disabilities.

Let me ask a simple question.

Where is that same energy when Democrats call people Nazis, racists, white supremacists, and every other name in the book on national television?

You are mad that Trump used the word “retarded” about a governor. You are not mad when your side calls half the country fascist for voting Republican.

You are mad about one word in a post, but not the billion dollars that went missing under Tim Walz. You are crying for disabled people while ignoring the poor and working class families in Minnesota whose kids got used as props in fake “autism” schemes and bogus food programs.

That is not compassion. That is political theater.

And then they pull out the old lie that Trump “mocked a disabled reporter.” They run the same clip from 2016 and pretend he was targeting the man’s disability. That reporter’s condition is not even visible in that way. Trump does that arm-flailing thing to everybody. He has mocked plenty of able-bodied people the same way.

It is lazy. It is dishonest. It is emotional manipulation.

They do not actually care about disabled people. They care about a weapon they can use against Trump and anybody who supports him.

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If Walz Is Not Disabled, Who Are You Really Talking About?

Here is the part that exposes the whole game.

If Trump says, “the seriously retarded governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz,” and you reply, “He is attacking disabled people,” you just told on yourself.

Is Tim Walz mentally disabled? Is that what you are saying? If he is not, then why are you dragging disabled people into it?

Trump was talking about Walz’s behavior. His incompetence. His fear. His corruption. His willingness to ignore fraud because it helps him politically.

The left hears that and says, “He is hurting the disabled community.”

No. What he is really hurting is their protected class of incompetent politicians and activist darlings who never get held accountable.

Again, the people drawing the line between that word and their relative or their child are the ones making the association. Not Trump. Not me. Not conservative voters.

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We Are Raising A Generation Of Soft Kids

This is bigger than one fight on The View. This is about what kind of country and what kind of people we are raising.

I grew up in the hood. People talked trash. You got roasted. You got clowned for how you looked, what you wore, how you ran. If somebody called you names, you either let it crush you or you learned to fire back.

My grandma did not raise us to be soft.

If I came home crying, “They said I am stupid,” she would look at me and say, “Are you stupid? Then why do you care what they say?”

If somebody said, “You are gay,” she would say, “Are you gay? Then why do you care what they say?”

I used to be embarrassed about my skinny legs. My grandma told me, “Do you have legs? If you did not have any, you would be begging for those skinny legs.”

That is real love. That is real protection. Not this fake, fragile bubble wrap where words are treated like bullets and grown adults melt down on TV because somebody was “mean.”

You do not protect your kids by censoring the planet. You protect them by giving them a backbone.

Right now we have boys crying to their parents about “bullying” because somebody clowned their haircut, and parents respond by demanding that schools ban words, silence speech, and punish any child who talks like kids have ever talked in the history of the world.

You are not raising strong men. You are raising permanent victims.

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The Real Outrage Is Fraud, Not A Word

Let us zoom back out.

Here is what the media wants you focused on:

• Trump used a forbidden word.

• The View is upset.

• A politician says he will vote differently on redistricting because he is offended.

Here is what they want you to ignore:

• A billion dollars in fraud.

• Massive schemes that robbed taxpayers and abused COVID programs.

• Whistleblowers inside the Minnesota government saying they were retaliated against for trying to stop it.

• A governor who dodges responsibility on national TV and tries to act like he is the hero for “putting people in jail” after the fact.

Trump calling Tim Walz “seriously retarded” is not what hurt the people of Minnesota.

What hurt them is their own leadership.

What hurt them is a political class more worried about protecting voting blocs than protecting taxpayer money. More worried about their image with immigrant communities than about telling the truth when parts of those communities abuse the system.

And yes, I said parts of those communities. If you are more offended that I mentioned Somali fraud than that Somali criminals stole money, your priorities are not moral. They are political.

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My Takeaway

I am not here to tell you that you have to like the word Trump used. You do not. You can think it is crude or harsh or unnecessary.

But as a Christian man, as a father, and as a former cop, here is what I know:

• Truth is always more important than tone.

• Corruption is always more dangerous than rude language.

• A weak, easily offended culture is easier to control than a strong one.

So the question is not, “Do you like Trump’s word choice?” The real question is this:

Are you more offended by what Trump said
or by what Tim Walz did not do?

If your answer is the word, not the billion dollars, then the problem is not Trump. It is you.

We can be a country that obsesses over vocabulary while criminals drain our tax dollars, or we can be a country that grows a spine and demands real accountability from the people who run our states and spend our money.

You know where I stand.