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In his inimitable fashion, President Donald Trump noted correctly on Friday that “the worst ‘Congressman/woman’ in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how ‘badly’ she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc.”
That’s bluntly put, but it’s all true. Omar herself, however, has a decidedly different view of her homeland, as well as of her fellow Somali migrants to the United States. She recently claimed that “Somalis have always seen themselves as the fabric of the nation,” although if she had been challenged on this point, she would have been unable to come up with the name of even one Somali in the United States who has made any significant contribution to anything.
Omar has repeatedly made it clear, in fact, that not only does she not see herself as part of any Somali “fabric of the nation,” but that she is also deeply disappointed in her adopted country, and of course it is all the fault of none other than Donald J. Trump. While virtually all leftists hate Trump with hysterical, lunatic intensity, Omar goes them all one better, and she is in the process of transforming Trump-hatred into a veritable new art form.
Notoriously, Omar said back in June that Trump’s efforts to stop the Los Angeles riots, which were themselves dedicated to stopping his efforts to deport some illegal migrants, were turning the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave into “one of the worst countries.”
Trump’s efforts to stop the rioting led her to compare America unfavorably to the idyllic and carefree Somalia of her youth: “Can you imagine that image that is going to be coming out of our country? I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don’t even remember ever witnessing anything like that. To have a democracy, a beacon of hope for the world, to now be turned into one of the, you know, one of the worst countries, where the military are in our streets without any regard for people’s constitutional rights, while our president’s spending millions of dollars propping himself up like a failed dictator with a military parade — it is really shocking.”
Shocking? Maybe. Fictional? Certainly. In reality, there was nothing unconstitutional about the president restoring order. Omar, however, had a narrative to push, and to do so, she enthusiastically, albeit hypocritically, wrapped herself in the old red, white and blue: “It should be a wake-up call for all Americans to say, ‘This is not the country we were born in. It’s not the country we believe in. This is not the country our Founding Fathers imagined, and this is not the country that is supported by our Constitution, our ideals, our values.’ And we should all collectively be out in the streets, rejecting what is taking place this week.”
“Our Founding Fathers”? “Our Constitution”? In June 2024, video began circulating of former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire standing next to a beaming Omar and saying: “The interest of Ilhan are not Ilhan’s, it’s not the interest of Minnesota, nor is it the interest of the American people, the interest of Ilhan is that of the Somali people and Somalia. The success of Ilhan is the success of Somalia.”
That video followed one in which Omar is giving a speech in which she says: “We Somalis must have the confidence in ourselves that we call the shots in the U.S. The U.S. government will only do what Somalis in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else.” She says that the U.S. government “must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia… Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.”
A third video contains footage of Omar from 2022, once again speaking in Somali to a Somali audience. She begins by saying: “We must fix our roads.” Nothing wrong with that, except that she isn’t talking about the roads in her congressional district. She is talking about roads in Somalia. Omar continues:
I am an American migrant in the U.S. Congress. But I am a Somali girl, a girl with your lineage, a girl with your language, a girl with your religion, that was a young child taken from her country, that misses her country and wishes to live there, and share with its people. I am hopeful in the future that me and my children will be able to raise our kids in this land, where I was born and raised. To make that possible, there is a lot that we need to work on together to make our land a more stable and prosperous place. That is felt by all.
So she loves Somalia and longs to live there. She thinks America, meanwhile, is among “the worst of countries.” Trump clearly has a point.
