Tim Walz thought he could quietly slink away from the catastrophe he created in Minnesota.
He was wrong.
And Greg Gutfeld dropped the hammer on Tim Walz with this ugly truth about Minnesota's fraud crisis.
Walz tried to blame everyone except himself for Minnesota's disaster
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced he's stepping out of his reelection race after presiding over one of the biggest welfare fraud scandals in American history.
A staggering $9 billion in taxpayer money vanished through fraudulent daycare schemes in his state's Somali community.
But Walz couldn't help himself during his exit speech.
He blamed "conspiracy theorists" and "Right-wing YouTubers" for exposing the fraud instead of taking responsibility for letting it happen on his watch.
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld wasn't buying Walz's excuses for a second.
"Focus on the work. It's a little late for that, Tim," Gutfeld said on his show Tuesday night. "That's like closing the barn door after the horse opened a bogus daycare center for Somali tots."
Gutfeld pointed out that independent journalist Nick Shirley did the job Minnesota officials refused to do.
Shirley went to these supposed daycare centers with his camera and found them completely empty.
"From what we've seen in Nick Shirley's videos, no one has access to children at those day care centers," Gutfeld explained. "Hell, there's nowhere to be found. Those places are as child free as Planned Parenthood."
Gutfeld nailed the real reason fraud exploded under Walz
The Fox host didn't stop at mocking Walz's pathetic excuses.
He connected the dots on how this massive fraud was allowed to happen in the first place.
"$9 billion in Somali fraud doesn't just happen," Gutfeld stated. "In part, it comes from a culture that runs on tribalism, piracy and scams, but it's enabled by a government of cowards who turn a blind eye for fear of being called racist."
Gutfeld credited Elon Musk's purchase of X (formerly Twitter) for allowing this story to break through.
Before Musk restored free speech to the platform, stories like this got buried by Big Tech censors protecting Democrat politicians.
"When he bought X, before that, a story like this would have been smothered like one of Hillary's former friends," Gutfeld joked.
The host pointed out that Musk's Department of Government Efficiency put waste, fraud and abuse front and center in the national conversation.
Americans are finally realizing the massive national debt isn't just about spending.
It's about corruption that costs taxpayers trillions.
Gutfeld asked the question every American should be asking about Minnesota's disaster.
"Would this have happened 30 years ago?" Gutfeld wondered. "Even Bill Clinton wouldn't have allowed this."
The answer exposes how identity politics poisoned government accountability.
Officials like Walz became too terrified of being called racist to stop obvious fraud schemes.
"We used to share responsibility when it came to civic order, but identity politics destroyed that," Gutfeld explained. "Now we are to believe that we aren't worthy to call out law breaking because the law breakers are oppressed, and we are the oppressor."
This is the poison that's destroying America from within.
Race hustlers convinced weak politicians like Walz that enforcing laws against certain groups makes them bigots.
So they look the other way while taxpayers get robbed blind.
Gutfeld hammered home the cultural disaster Walz created by importing people from societies with no shared American values.
"Walz was in charge as his state imported people from low trust societies where no shared values exist," Gutfeld said. "There's nothing here for them except American taxpayer dollars."
The Fox host explained how this destroys the social fabric that made America work.
"America, it used to be a high trust country, but we've offered sanctuary to scammers who, rather than assimilate, operate with the same lawlessness they employed in their homeland," Gutfeld stated.
When people suspect everyone around them is trying to rip them off, trust disappears.
Suspicion replaces goodwill and aggression becomes the default.
"You see it in public transportation, in restaurants, college campuses, hell, everything is still locked up at Walgreens," Gutfeld noted.
That's not an accident or bad luck.
That's what happens when cowards like Tim Walz let scammers turn American paychecks into paydays for welfare fraudsters.
Walz thought dropping out of his reelection race would make this scandal disappear.
But the damage he did to Minnesota won't vanish just because he's slinking away.
And thanks to voices like Greg Gutfeld calling out the truth, Americans are finally seeing how identity politics enables the massive corruption destroying their communities.
Sources:
- Ian Schwartz, "Gutfeld: Walz Imported People From Low-Trust Societies With No Shared Values, Nothing Here For Them Except Taxpayer Dollars," Real Clear Politics, January 7, 2026.
