Ilhan Omar fires back at Trump after he claims she tells ‘us how to run country’

WASHINGTON, DC: Progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) fired back after former President Donald Trump taunted her in a recent Fox News interview.

During a Monday night appearance on 'The Ingraham Angle', Trump first called Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) a “low-IQ person” before turning his ire on Omar.

Ilhan Omar responds to Trump’s accusations

“I look at somebody that comes from Somalia, who, where they don’t have anything — they don’t have police, they don’t have military, they don’t have anything,” Trump said, referring to the Minnesota lawmaker who fled Somalia’s civil war as a child in the ’90s. “All they have is crime — and she comes in and tells us how to run our country.”

Trump then appeared to mock Omar’s voice. “‘The Constitution says this, the Constitution says…’” he sneered, adding, “The whole thing is crazy.”

Less than 24 hours later, Omar responded on X. “Unlike you, I can read, and that’s why I know what the Constitution says,” she tweeted alongside a clip of Trump’s comments.

Omar has been serving in Congress since 2018 and is now in her fourth term. She fled Somalia with her family at age eight, spent several years in a refugee camp, and became a US citizen in 2000 at 17.

Donald Trump repeatedly targets Omar over ‘go back’ remarks

Trump has long targeted Omar, frequently suggesting she “go back” to Somalia despite being a naturalized US citizen. Just last month, he repeated the claim on Truth Social. In September, Trump said Omar should be “impeached” a day after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) failed to censure her over comments about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

He even joked in the Oval Office about sending Omar back to Somalia. “You know, I met the head of Somalia, did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he’d like to take her back. He said, ‘I don’t want her,’” Trump quipped.

Omar responded, “From denying Somalia had a president to making up a story, President Trump is a lying buffoon. No one should take this embarrassing fool seriously.”

Ilhan Omar shrugs off citizenship and deportation threats

Omar is not worried about Trump’s threats against her citizenship. “I have no worry,” she said last month. “I don’t know how they’d take away my citizenship and, like, deport me.”

“But I don’t even know, like, why that’s such a scary threat,” Omar added. “I’m not the 8-year-old who escaped war anymore. I’m grown. My kids are grown. Like, I can go live wherever I want.”

The White House cheekily responded to her comments by sharing a photo of Trump at a McDonald’s drive-thru window, waving goodbye.

The feud isn’t exactly new. Trump has been sparring with Omar and her fellow “Squad” members since his first term. Back then, he infamously told them to “go back” to their “broken and crime-infested countries."

Omar shot back at the time by accusing Trump of “stoking white nationalism because you are angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda.”

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