Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar, a refugee from Somalia, believes that the United States of America, the nation where her family fled, is becoming one of the worst countries in the world, yet she chooses to stay.
In a recent interview with Democracy Now, Omar pointed out that U.S. troops were sent to put down protests in Los Angeles during the same week the Trump administration held a massive military parade to celebrate 250 years of the U.S. Army.
“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,” the representative said, referring to Somalia.
“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 are in 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 is really shocking,” she said.
“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,’” the woman, who was not actually born in the United States, said.
“And we should all collectively be out in the streets, rejecting what is taking place this week,” she said.
“I think the person who is in the process of destroying our country should look in the mirror and that’s Trump,” she said. “And notice that he is the one that has hatred for the values that we have here in America and everything that we have built. The reality is protest, dissent, is constitutionally protected that is everybody’s First Amendment right in this country.”
The Minnesota Democrat and Squad member faced immediate backlash on X for her comments.
“She wasn’t born here at all,” one X user said.
“The hyperbole here is appalling, made worse by her astounding ingratitude,” Fox News contributor Guy Benson said.
“[I]f people are seriously offended by a parade for the first time in decades, then go outside and touch some grass,” OutKick contributor David Hookstead said. “We have the greatest military on the planet, and we shouldn’t ever apologize for it. After all, our men died to try to protect innocent lives in Somalia. I guess that sacrifice just doesn’t matter to Congresswoman Omar.”
“I will never understand immigrants who come to America, utilize every opportunity this country offers, and then complain about and bash this country. Can we have Ilhan Omar deported?” another X user said.
“When elected leaders like Rep Ilhan Omar claim the US is the worst country on the planet they’re calling for violence against the legitimate government,” another said.
“We have a major problem. We’re not a single Republican in Congress is demanding her resignation. And we wonder why Congress has yet to codify President Trump’s executive orders, stop broke judges and passed the America first agenda. Trump works 24 seven and Republicans sit back and play footsie with these terrorists in the Democrat party,” another user said.
“There’s literally nothing stopping Omar from leaving if she isn’t happy here…because we’re a free country. Unlike the Somalia she idealizes!” another said.
She has currently not announced any plans to leave the country.
BREAKING: Russ Vought just dropped the hammer on Schumer and Jeffries!$18 BILLION in New York funding is now frozen.The Hudson Tunnel project and the Second Avenue Subway extension, the crown jewels of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries’ New York empire, are suddenly on ice.
Why? Because Vought made it crystal clear: federal dollars will not be spent on projects warped by unconstitutional DEI mandates.
For decades, Democrats have treated the federal treasury like their personal piggy bank.
They demand billions for “infrastructure” in New York City, then quietly lace the contracts with race based quotas, equity requirements, and woke nonsense that has nothing to do with pouring concrete or laying steel.
It has always been about power, patronage, and ideology.
And every time, taxpayers from Iowa to Ohio foot the bill.
Not this time.
Vought’s move landed like a thunderclap.
Billions that Schumer and Jeffries were counting on just vanished overnight.
Projects they bragged about back home are now stalled because their gravy train runs on DEI fuel.
And when the watchdogs furloughed by the shutdown cannot rubber stamp the spending, the money does not move.
Cue the outrage.
Governor Kathy Hochul is already screaming about “political payback.”
Schumer and Jeffries are panicking because they know their constituents will blame them when the subway extension stalls and the Hudson Tunnel grinds to a halt.
But let us be clear.
This is not sabotage.
This is accountability.
This is what happens when you build billion dollar projects on an unconstitutional foundation.
The Left has grown comfortable with shutdown theater.
They threaten chaos, point fingers, and then quietly cash their checks while the rest of America pays the price.
But this time the script flipped.
Vought did not blink.
He froze their money and told them: if you cannot build without woke ideology, you do not get to build at all.
And that is why this moment matters.
It is proof that conservatives do not have to sit back and complain about waste and woke overreach.
With the right leadership, we can choke off the slush funds, dry up the equity mandates, and put America First in how our money is spent.
So let the Democrats howl.
Let the media rage.
At the end of the day, $18 billion is locked up, New York’s political machine just got kneecapped, and Schumer and Jeffries are left explaining to their voters why their pet projects are stalled.
The message is clear.
UNLEASH RUSS VOUGHT!