Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has blasted Donald Trump after the president launched a terrifying tirade against her native country of Somalia.
During an extraordinary outburst in a Cabinet meeting, Trump called Omar, a longtime enemy, “garbage” and labeled the East African nation where she was born “barely a country.”
Omar, a U.S. citizen who came to America as a child while fleeing Somalia’s civil war, is a regular target of Trump’s and MAGA’s outrage.
In 2019, he launched a racist attack on Omar and the three other women of color in the progressive Democratic group known as “The Squad”—Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib, and Massachusetts’s Ayanna Pressley—telling them to “go back” to where they came from.
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