President Trump reportedly intensified his attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday, criticizing both the congresswoman and her native Somalia after a Republican-led resolution to formally reprimand her collapsed in the House the previous day.
“I think she’s terrible. I think she should be impeached. I think she’s terrible,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. He added pointedly, “So how are they doing? How’s your government? Do they have a president? Do they have a council? Do they have anything? Do they have police? I love these people. They come from a place with nothing, nothing, no, anything, and then they tell us how to run our country.”
The failed resolution, introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), sought to rebuke Omar for what Mace described as inflammatory remarks about conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last week.
Mace alleged that Omar “smeared Charlie Kirk and implied he was to blame for his own murder” after she shared a video on social media. The effort was narrowly defeated when the House voted 214-213 to table the resolution, with four Republicans joining Democrats to block it.
Omar celebrated the outcome, thanking her Democratic colleagues for what she called a defense of free speech. “Thank you to my colleagues for having my back and not furthering lies on the House floor.
Appreciate them safeguarding first amendment protections and the usage of the censure,” she wrote on social media. “Finally some sanity in the House.”
Trump was not persuaded. “If she got censured, that’s great, if she got impeached, that’s even better,” he said.
Later Thursday, the president turned his attention to Somalia, using his Truth Social platform to highlight what he called the nation’s chronic instability and corruption. “Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence,” he wrote.
He pointed to staggering rates of deprivation: “70 percent of the population lives in extreme Poverty, and widespread Food Insecurity. Somalia is consistently ranked among the World’s Most Corrupt Countries, including Bribery, Embezzlement and a Dysfunctional Government.”
The contrast, Trump argued, is telling. “All of this, and Ilhan Omar tells us how to run America!” he said.
The president then revived longstanding allegations that Omar had engaged in immigration fraud. “P.S. Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship??? What SCUM we have in our Country, telling us what to do, and how to do it,” Trump wrote. Omar has repeatedly denied those accusations.
For Trump and his allies, Omar has become a potent symbol of what they see as the Democratic Party’s tolerance of radicalism and contempt for traditional American values.
Her critics argue that remarks about figures like Kirk cross a line into political cruelty, while her defenders insist she is being unfairly targeted because of her background.
As the House struggles with divisions even inside the Republican conference, Trump’s message was unequivocal: Omar should not just be censured, but removed entirely. “I think she should be impeached,” he reiterated.
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