Right-wing streamer Asmongold on Trump admin freezing Minnesota Medicaid funds: “People will probably die because they're doing this, and it's the right thing to do.”
Zach Hoyt, also known as “Asmongold”: “If you have a big problem like this, you can't solve it without collateral damage. It's inevitable.”
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From the February 25, 2026, edition of Asmongold TV, streamed on YouTube
ZACK HOYT AKA ASMONGOLD (HOST): Now this is why I think it's going to happen, and I think that they need to get ahead of this messaging. Whenever they cut off the spigot, you're going to have some people that should get paid that aren't going to get paid anymore, And they're going to come up with fantasies and fan fiction about how, like, oh, wow. It's this, like, autistic kid, and now it's dead. Like, no. No. The thing is that if you didn't want them to do this, you shouldn't have been scamming for this long, and you should have taken preventative action. This extreme action that they're taking will have probably casualties. People will probably die because they're doing this, and it's the right thing to do.
The reason why is that if you have a big problem like this, you can't solve it without collateral damage. It's inevitable. So I think that they need to make sure that they get ahead of that messaging, and they explain that, basically, if there are any side effects, if there is any collateral damage or any casualties, this is because of the people that engineered a fraudulent system. And now you're having to take drastic action to change it, and you're doing the best you can. But because it was engineered in such a bad way, it's taking time, and there will be people that will be unnecessarily affected. That's what needs to happen. They've got to come out and say that.