President Donald Trump slammed Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for "telling us how to run our country," yet another reference to her Somali origin.
Speaking to Fox News' Laura Ingraham, Trump didn't mention Omar by name but described her as "somebody that comes from Somalia where they don't have anything."
"They don't have police. They don't have military. All they have is crime. And she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this...' The whole thing in crazy," Trump added.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "Somebody that comes from Somalia where they don't have anything.. They don't have police. They don't have military. All they have is crime. And she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this...' The whole thing in crazy." pic.twitter.com/sUytcAjxvb
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It was the second time in a day where Trump and the White House taunted Omar. On Monday, the White House's X account shared an image of Trump waving goodbye while working a McDonald's drive-thru window when responding to a clip from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) saying she is not worried about the impact of potentially being deported.
The White House did not provide context for the image. However, the clip-photo pairing invited interpretation that Trump was metaphorically waving Omar out of the country.
Omar's interview clip was from an October 31 appearance on The Dean Obeidallah Show where, reflecting on rhetoric claiming she could be deported despite being a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2000, she said: "I have no worry. I don't know how they take away my citizenship, like deport me. But I don't know why that's such a scary threat. I'm not the eight-year-old who escaped war anymore. I'm grown, my kids are grown, I can go live wherever I want."
Earlier this month, Trump reposted a video of Omar speaking at a rally along with a caption that read "She should go back!" on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Omar, who was born in Somalia and fled civil war at age 8 before arriving in the United States in 1995, became a U.S. citizen five years later. Trump has continued to question her legitimacy as an American public official. In September, he told reporters, "I suggested that maybe [Somalia] would like to take her back," later claiming Somalian leadership declined.
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