White House responds to Omar deportation comments with Trump image
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The White House appears ready for Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., to leave the United States and return to her native Somalia.
On Monday, the White House shared a photo of President Donald Trump waving goodbye from the drive-through window of a McDonald’s in 2024 in response to a video of Omar saying she wasn’t worried about being deported.
“I’m not worried, I don’t know how they’re going to take away my citizenship and deport me,” Omar said in a video shot on The Dean Obeidallah Show in October, to which the White House responded. “But I don’t even know why it’s such a frightening threat. It’s like I’m not that 8-year-old kid running away from war anymore. I’ve grown up, my kids have grown up. It’s like I can live wherever I want.”
“I’m not worried, I don’t know how they’re going to take away my citizenship and deport me,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said in a video in which the White House responded. (Washington Post via Jabin Botsford/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 was from his campaign visit in Pennsylvania in October 2024, where he worked at a McDonald’s fry station.
Omar’s family evacuated Somalia during the Somali Civil War in 1991 and went to a refugee camp in Kenya. The United States eventually granted his family asylum, and they arrived in Arlington, Virginia, in 1995 before heading to Minneapolis in 1997. Omar became a US citizen in 2000.
Trump recently suggested that Omar should return to Somalia, writing in a Nov. 1 post on Truth Social, “She should go back!” he said. The post was accompanied by a video of Omar speaking Somali.
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Likewise, Trump told reporters in September that Somalia was not interested in Omar’s return.
President Donald Trump told reporters in September that Somalia was not interested in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s return. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“You know, I met the leader of Somalia, did you know that?” Trump said. “So I said maybe he might want to take it back. He said, ‘I don’t want it.'”
In response, Omar said the story was fabricated and called the president’s credibility into question.
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“From denying that Somalia has a president to making up stories, President Trump is a lying buffoon,” Omar said. “No one should take this shameful idiot seriously.”
Trump sparred with Omar well into his first administration. For example, he condemned Omar and several other progressive lawmakers known as “The Squad” and said they should all return to their “broken and crime-ridden” country.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has sparred with President Donald Trump for years, dating back to the first term of his presidency. (Getty Images)
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As a result, Omar said in a 2019 social media post that Trump “is fueling white nationalism because you’re angry that people like us serve in Congress and fight against your hateful agenda.”
Omar was elected to the U.S. 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 elected to Congress.
