White House responds to comments on Omar’s expulsion with image of Trump
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The White House appears ready for Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, to leave the United States and return to Somalia, where she was born.
On Monday, the White House shared an image of President Donald Trump waving goodbye through a McDonald’s drive-thru window in 2024 on
“I’m not worried, I don’t know how they could take away my citizenship and deport me,” Omar said in the clip to which the White House responded, which was originally made on “The Dean Obeidallah Show” in October. “But I don’t even know why it’s such a scary threat. Like I’m no longer the 8-year-old who escaped the war. I’m grown up, my kids are grown up. Like I can go live anywhere I want.”
“I’m not worried, I don’t know how they could take away my citizenship and deport me,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, said in the clip to which the White House responded. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Omar’s office and the White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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The image of Trump shared by the White House is from October 2024 during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, where he was working at a McDonald’s fry station.
Omar’s family evacuated Somalia to a refugee camp in Kenya during the Somali Civil War in 1991. The United States eventually granted her family asylum, and they came to Arlington, Virginia, in 1995 before traveling to Minneapolis in 1997. Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000.
Trump recently suggested that Omar should return to Somalia and said in an article on Truth Social on November 1 that “she should go back!” The message accompanied a video of Omar speaking Somali.
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Likewise, Trump also told reporters in September that Somalia was not interested in Omar’s return.
President Donald Trump works the drive-thru line during a campaign photo opportunity as he visits a McDonald’s restaurant October 20, 2024, in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty Images; Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“You know, I met the leader of Somalia, did you know that?” » Trump said. “And I suggested that maybe he would like to take her back. He said, ‘I don’t want her.'”
In response, Omar said the story was fabricated and questioned the president’s credibility.
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“Whether it’s denying that Somalia has a president or making up a story, President Trump is a lying buffoon,” Omar said. “No one should take this embarrassing fool seriously.”
Trump has feuded with Omar since his first administration. For example, he lambasted Omar and a few other progressive lawmakers known as “The Squad” and said they should all return to their “broken and crime-infested” countries.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has been fighting with President Donald Trump for years, dating back to his first term as president. (Getty Images)
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As a result, Omar said in a 2019 social media post that Trump was “fueling white nationalism because you’re angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda.”
Omar was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2018, after serving two years in the Minnesota House of Representatives. She became the first Somali-American woman and one of the first Muslim women to be elected to Congress.
