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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) is 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. Watch for her to get an NEA grant any minute now.
Omar has gone all the other Trump-haters one better by claiming that Orange Man Bad is not just a new Hitler who is destroying “our democracy” (the term leftists like to use to refer to their own hegemony), but that he is destroying the country itself, reducing it to the level of a third-world hellhole.
This is ironic for numerous reasons, not least of which is the fact that it was the Biden regime that Omar favored, not the Trump administration that Omar hates, that opened the southern border and brought in millions of migrants. Many of those migrants immediately became a drain on the economy. Others committed various crimes, some of which involved unspeakable atrocities. Meanwhile, their presence further weakened national unity and social cohesion. It was Omar’s friends and colleagues, her fellow leftist apparatchiks, who did far more to reduce the U.S. to third-world status than Trump ever did.
Nevertheless, The Hill reported Tuesday that Omar declared that Trump’s efforts to stop the Los Angeles riots, which were themselves dedicated to stopping his efforts to deport some of those 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 is on 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’s really shocking.”
Shocking? Maybe. Fictional? Certainly. In reality, there is nothing unconstitutional about the president restoring order, and an appeals court has sided with Trump in his legal fight against California Commissar Gavin Newsom over the deployment of the National Guard in the riots. Omar, however, has a narrative to push, and to do so, she enthusiastically 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.”
What’s that? You didn’t know Ilhan Omar had such a patriotic concern for “our Constitution, our ideals, our values”? 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 is 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 gave a speech in which she said: “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 interests 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. It is felt by all.
She loves Somalia and longs to live there. She thinks America, meanwhile, is among “the worst of countries.” Yet despite her expressed hope in the 2022 video, she is likely to remain in the country she hates. After all, there is so much more work to do in order to ensure its destruction.