'She's Getting Worse': Liz Truss Claims 'Extreme Left Are Mounting Armed Insurrection' In US
Liz Truss has been slammed online after she claimed that “the extreme left are mounting an armed insurrection” in America.
The former prime minister, who only lasted 49 days in Downing Street after sparking an economic crisis, made the evidence-free claim on a Daily Telegraph podcast.
Her comments followed the killing of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the US.
Truss said: “What [Donald Trump] is facing is an armed insurrection, that’s what’s happening.”
Presenter Tim Stanley pointed out to Truss that neither Good or Pretti were armed when they were shot dead.
But the former Tory leader said: “What you do have is an armed insurrection, and that is a very difficult thing to deal with.
“I’m talking about left-wing protesters co-ordinating on Signal and, in the case of some of these states, a lack of co-operation from the state governor with legitimate law enforcement.
“It’s a very serious situation in America, I don’t want it to get anything like that in Britain.”
The extreme left are mounting an armed insurrection.
— Liz Truss (@trussliz) January 30, 2026
My comments on ICE in the United States. pic.twitter.com/mw5kUtAheY
Her comments sparked bafflement and ridicule on social media.
She's getting worse. I genuinely don't know where this all ends for her. https://t.co/tOAGvK0cqx
— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) January 30, 2026
Liz Truss claims Trump administration faces an armed insurrection. Total bollocks. Why did these Telegraph types let her get away with repeating it? https://t.co/MLk06ux7Py
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) January 30, 2026
Somebody, for everyone’s sake, please help poor Liz. She’s becoming more of a worry every day.
— Patrick Dearden (@Deardenpad) January 30, 2026
This is off the spectrum mental ????????
— Sean Horgan (@seanhorgan1) January 31, 2026
Others pointed out that the closest the US has come to actual armed insurrection in recent years was on January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington in an attempt to overturn the result of the previous year’s presidential election.
This is an insurrection pic.twitter.com/OkukjtQcZ3
— Excocet Missile (@Excocet) January 30, 2026
But Trump pardoned people for being a part of an insurrection, so aren't they good?
— Graham Carter (@GrahamCart52267) January 31, 2026
In the same podcast, Truss expressed bafflement that the Royal Navy will not break the law for government ministers.
She said: “Lots of people say we need to turn around the boats in the Channel to stop illegal immigration.
“As a government minister, if you ordered – even as prime minister – if you ordered the Navy to do that, they would just say ‘we’re not doing that because it’s illegal’.
“So the civil service now decide what’s legal and what’s not legal and can essentially refuse to do what government ministers say under the system that was set up under Tony Blair.”