President Donald Trump flipped the script on Democrats’ "no one is above the law" mantra after years of hearing it aimed at him, invoking the phrase after news broke Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz would not seek re-election as a sweeping fraud scandal rocks his state.

"Governor Walz has destroyed the State of Minnesota, but others, like Governor Gavin Newscum, JB Pritzker, and Kathy Hochul, have done, in my opinion, an even more dishonest and incompetent job. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!" Trump posted to Truth Social Monday afternoon. 

The message followed Walz announcing Monday that he was withdrawing his re-election effort to serve as governor. Walz was first elected the state's top leader in 2018 in a political career that also included him campaigning coast-to-coast in 2024 as former Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate. 

"As I reflected on this moment with my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I can’t give a political campaign my all," Walz wrote in a statement. "Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences."

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Minnesota has come under fierce scrutiny in recent weeks as a sprawling fraud scandal that has led to dozens of arrests, mostly from the state's large Somali community, since 2022 comes to light. Minnesota was allegedly home to a massive COVID-era scheme that allegedly involved money laundering operations related to fraudulent meal and housing programs, daycare centers and Medicaid services, according to investigators. 

The Minnesota fraud is still being tabulated, with local officials speculating it could exceed $1 billion and rise to as high as $9 billion.

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Trump's use of the phrase "no one is above the law" follows years of Democrats employing the same rhetoric against Trump as he faced a barrage of charges and court cases in the interim of his first and second administration. 

"No one is above the law," then-President Joe Biden said after Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsified business records in a Manhattan court in May 2024. 

Trump faced four criminal indictments during the interim of his first and second administrations, which landed accusations of "lawfare" on the national stage as Trump maintained his innocence and slammed the cases as efforts by the Democratic Party to hurt his political chances for re-election during the 2024 cycle. 

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"As I’ve said before, no one is above the law, including Donald Trump," then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in 2023 after the Biden administration's Department of Justice announced Trump had been indicted on 37 counts related to his mishandling of classified documents.

Even during Trump's first administration, Democrats championed the phrase as they combated MAGA Republicans and Trump policies. 

"Everybody wants the president to be held accountable in the most serious way," then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said of Trump in 2019 amid a discussion Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, underscoring that Democrats believe "no one is above the law." "And everybody believes, now I'm talking on the Democratic side, that no one is above the law, especially the President of the United States."

"We must be clear: no one, not even the President, is above the law," Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said in a statement in 2019 when introducing articles of impeachment against Trump. 

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Upon his victory over the Harris–Walz presidential ticket in 2024, Trump has taken a victory lap for allegedly snuffing out the weaponization of government. 

"We have ended weaponized government, where, as an example, a sitting President is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me. How did that work out?" he said during his joint address to Congress in 2025. "Not too good. Not too good." 

Trump added in his Monday Truth Social post that "Minnesota’s Corrupt Governor will possibly leave office before his Term is up," and that he's confident the fraud investigations "will reveal a seriously unscrupulous, and rich, group of 'SLIMEBALLS.'"

Walz has taken ownership of correcting the fraud, and said his administration had been taking action to stop some suspected fraudulent payments over the summer and that his office referred some for prosecution. The governor, however, has said that multibillion figures were "sensationalized" by Republicans.

"This is on my watch, I am accountable for this and, more importantly, I am the one that will fix it," Walz told reporters in December. 

Fox Digital reached out to Walz's office for a response to Trump's Truth Social but did not immediately receive a reply. 

Fox News Digital's Amanda Macias contributed to this report. 

Comedian Bill Maher and actor Tim Allen criticized diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices during Maher's "Club Random" podcast on Monday, arguing such policies shouldn't impede on the creative process when making television shows.

"My wife says, 'Why do you keep saying that?' And I said, 'Somebody told me I was like the Tom Brady of sitcoms.' When they asked me to do a third one, I said, ‘I thought they were kidding,’" Allen told Maher. "I don’t know whether my generation — because all the people that I know that I would make it with are either dead or not the right gender, you know, they’re all light-skinned European older men — and that doesn’t fit the DEI thing that everybody wanted. They wanted, you know, a potpourri of —"

Maher interjected and said they could have "DEI in the cast."

"I didn’t want to get into that. I didn’t want to patronize people. If you’re going to do a sitcom, it’s just got to be funny. You got to have some drama," Allen said.

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Maher agreed, saying that while diversity is a "great virtue," it wasn't the only one.

"Not everything in America has to look like Angelina Jolie's Christmas card, you know, sometimes, and it's always OK in reverse. You know, it's like if there's something where it's just an all-Black cast — and good, I'm all for it. I'm not complaining about it," he continued.

Maher has previously slammed DEI efforts as meaningless virtue signaling by the left that does little to address racial divides or inequity in the United States.

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The comedian cited CBS’ 2020 initiative setting a target to have a minimum of 40% Black, Indigenous and people of color representation in writers’ rooms — a figure the company hoped to increase to 50%, according to Variety.

"I thought, what if the show they’re writing is about a polka band in a ski town?" Maher said.

He argued DEI practices shouldn't intrude on creativity.

"I love people of color, and I’m so glad that things are better than they used to be for people of color, but you know, it shouldn’t intrude on the creative process to the degree it has in this town," Maher said. "It has intruded on the creative process. And by the way, lots of people of color agree with that because they want the creative process to be pure, too."

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Allen, the current lead actor on the CBS sitcom "Shifting Gears," starred on the popular ABC sitcom "Home Improvement" in the 1990s and later returned to the network for "Last Man Standing." He's also known for his movie roles and voice work as Buzz Lightyear in the "Toy Story" animated film series.

President Donald Trump ended DEI initiatives within the federal government soon after taking office, and several major companies followed suit.