Trump Tells U.S. Citizen Rep. Ilhan Omar To Go away Nation

[ad_1] by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman November 2, 2025

Omar has seemingly remained unshaken by Trump's threats.

Donald Trump has seemingly had sufficient of Rep. Ilhan Omar and her progressive methods.

The President instructed the Minnesota lawmaker to return to her nation, regardless of Omar having U.S. citizenship. Trump lashed out on the congresswoman on his most well-liked social platform, Fact Social. On his right-leaning social media hub, the President shared a clip of Omar talking what's assumed to be Somali whereas writing an unwelcoming caption.

“She ought to return,” asserted Trump.

The clip, albeit unverified, instructed that Omar was saying, “Somalia is our dwelling. It's our coronary heart. We all the time take into consideration Somalia.” In keeping with Politico, when the occasion occurred stays unknown, however the clip has circulated in right-wing on-line spheres.

Regardless of the restricted info behind the video, Omar has confronted right-wing hate as a consequence of her progressive coverage views and heritage. Omar at the moment serves as deputy chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, advocating for a lot of insurance policies, resembling common healthcare and the abolition of ICE, instantly against Trump.

Trump has not too long ago elevated his assaults in opposition to Omar, even claiming that he requested the Somali President to take her again. His officers have additionally perpetuated his assaults in opposition to Omar’s standing as a U.S. citizen.

“You understand I met the pinnacle of Somalia, do you know that?” he joked to reporters on the Oval Workplace in September. “And I instructed that perhaps he’d prefer to take her again. He mentioned ‘I don’t need her.’”

Born in Somalia, Omar got here to the U.S. as a baby after spending 4 years in a Kenyan refugee camp as a consequence of civil battle within the East African nation. She turned a citizen in 2000, later serving as a lawmaker for the folks of Minnesota.

The heightened deal with her standing within the nation stays alarming to many, particularly given Trump’s deportation efforts. Nevertheless, Omar has said she feels unshaken by Trump’s threats. She additionally famous the uptick in Islamophobic assaults in opposition to Muslim lawmakers like herself and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

“I've no fear, I don’t understand how they’d take away my citizenship and like deport me,” Omar mentioned on an Oct. 31 episode of The Dean Obeidallah Present. “However I don’t even know like why that’s such a scary risk. Like I’m not the 8-year-old who escaped battle anymore. I’m grown, my youngsters are grown. Like I may go reside wherever I need if I needed to. It’s a bizarre factor to get up each single day to deliver that into each single dialog, ‘we’re gonna deport Ilhan [Omar].’”

The 43-year-old started her political profession as a state consultant earlier than transferring on to nationwide politics. Omar has represented Minnesota’s fifth district since 2019.