Ilhan Omar says Trump’s anti-Somali tirade ‘completely disgusting’
Minnesota representative says ‘hateful rhetoric’ can lead to ‘dangerous actions by people who listen to the president’US House member Ilhan Omar on Sunday defended the Somali community in her Minnesota congressional district, saying it was “completely disgusting” when Donald Trump...
<p>Minnesota representative says ‘hateful rhetoric’ can lead to ‘dangerous actions by people who listen to the president’</p><p>US House member <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ilhan-omar">Ilhan Omar</a> on Sunday defended the Somali community in her Minnesota congressional district, saying it was “completely disgusting” when Donald Trump recently referred to them as garbage.</p><p>“These are Americans that he is calling ‘garbage,’” Omar, a Somalia-born Democrat, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpJFEHFDmS8">said</a> while responding to the president’s remarks on CBS’s Face the Nation. “I think it is also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric – and this level of dehumanizing – can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/07/ilhan-omar-trump-anti-somali-tirade-disgusting">Continue reading...</a>
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