US President Donald Trump called for anti-Israel US Rep. Ilhan Omar to go home in a Truth Social post on Saturday, following a video of the politician calling the Somalian president “our president” and praising Somalia as her home at a Minneapolis rally.
Omar, speaking in her native language, Somali, and with a large poster of Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud behind her, said that she was “very honored to have the chance that our president, president of Somalia, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, let us give him a warm welcome, Minneapolis.”
She also claimed that she and Mohamud have a “very close relationship. I call him uncle, and he calls me his girl.” The crowd erupted into applause following this statement.
“Welcome to your home, our home is your home, Minneapolis,” she continued. “We are very happy that Hassan is our president. Somalia is our home. It is home to all the people gathered here. We do not feel that it is far from us. Somalia is our heart. It is in our hearts. We always think about Somalia.”
Trump reposted the video, replying, “She should go back!”
'Omar tells us how to run America'
In a post from September this year, the US president bashed Somalia and called the US representative a “SCUM we have in our country.”
“Ilhan Omar’s country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of central government control, persistent poverty, hunger, resurgent terrorism, piracy, decades of civil war, corruption, and pervasive violence,” he said.
“All of this, and Ilhan Omar tells us how to run America!”