For a brief moment following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, President Donald Trump appeared to recalibrate. That chaotic 12-hour span summed up an extraordinary week of whiplash within the Trump administration, as officials raced to stamp out one raging political fire just as two more cropped up elsewhere across the federal government. People light candles at a makeshift memorial in the area where Alex Pretti was killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Monday. It was the tighter, more focused Trump that advisers had hoped to see for months. “Stuff happens, and we’ve got a lot of time between now and the midterms,” one Trump adviser said.

Source: CNN January 31, 2026 12:02 UTC