WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump again attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar at a campaign stop Tuesday, when he referenced her birth country of Somalia, drawing a rebuke from the Minnesota Democrat.
At a campaign rally near Pittsburgh, Trump said of the Somalian-born Omar: “She is telling us how to run our country. How did you do where you came from? How is your country doing?”
The president, who is trailing Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the polls, later added: “We don’t need socialists, and we don’t need communists telling us how to run our country.”
Omar, who has been an American citizen for two decades, slammed Trump in a tweet.
“Firstly, this is my country & I am a member of the House that impeached you,” Omar wrote. “Secondly, I fled civil war when I was 8. An 8-year-old doesn’t run a country even though you run our country like one.”
Trump has often attacked Omar and other members of “The Squad,” women of color in Congress who advocate more progressive social policies. The group, which includes New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has chided Trump for seeking to divide the country by race and ethnicity.❐
