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TRUMP KNOWS HE’S FAILING. CUE THE BIGOTRY.  
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Ilhan Omar
December 4, 2025
The New York Times
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_ On Tuesday, President Trump called my friends and me “garbage.”
This comment was only the latest in a series of remarks and Truth
Social posts in which the president has demonized and spread
conspiracy theories about the Somali community and me. _

Photo credit: Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press // New York Times,


 

On Tuesday, President Trump called
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friends and me “garbage.”

This comment was only the latest in a series of remarks and Truth
Social posts in which the president has demonized and spread
conspiracy theories about the Somali community and about me
personally. For years, the president has spewed hate speech in an
effort to gin up contempt against me. He reaches for the same playbook
of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and division again and again. At
one 2019 rally, he egged on his crowd until it chanted
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“send her back” when he said my name
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Mr. Trump denigrates not only Somalis but so many other immigrants,
too, particularly those who are Black and Muslim. While he has
consistently tried to vilify newcomers, we will not let him silence
us. He fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country.
We are doctors, teachers, police officers and elected leaders working
to make our country better. Over 90 percent of Somalis living in my
home state, Minnesota, are American citizens by birth or
naturalization. Some even supported Mr. Trump at the ballot box.

“I don’t want them in our country,” the president said this
week. “Let them go back to where they came from.”

Somali Americans remain resilient against the onslaught of attacks
from the White House. But I am deeply worried about the ramifications
of these tirades. When Mr. Trump maligns me, it increases the number
of death threats that my family, staff members and I receive. As a
member of Congress, I am privileged to have access to security when
these threats arise. What keeps me up at night is that people who
share the identities I hold — Black, Somali, hijabi, immigrant —
will suffer the consequences of his words, which so often go unchecked
by members of the Republican Party and other elected officials. All
Americans have a duty to call out this hateful rhetoric when we hear
it.

The president’s dehumanizing and dangerous attacks on minority
immigrant communities are nothing new. When he first ran for president
a decade ago, he launched his campaign with claims that he was going
to pause Muslim immigration to this country. He has since falsely
accused Haitian migrants of eating pets and referred to Haiti and
African nations as “shithole” countries. He has accused Mexico of
sending rapists and drug peddlers across our border. It is
unconscionable that he fails to acknowledge how this country was built
on the backs of immigrants and mocks their ongoing contributions.

While the president wastes his time attacking my community, my state,
my governor
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and me, the promises of economic prosperity he made in his run for
president last year have not come to fruition. Prices have not come
down; in many cases, they have risen. His implementation of tariffs
has hurt farmers and small business owners. His policies have only
worsened the affordability crisis for Americans. And now, with
Affordable Care Act tax credits set to expire, health care costs for
American households are primed to skyrocket, and millions of people
risk losing their coverage under his signature domestic policy bill.

The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he
knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.

When I was sworn into Congress in 2019, my father turned to me and
expressed bewilderment that the leader of the free world was picking
on a freshman member of Congress, one out of 535 members of the
legislative body. The president’s goal may have been to try to tear
me down, but my community and my constituents rallied behind me then,
just as they are now.

I often say that although Minnesota may be cold, the people here have
warm hearts. Minnesota is special. That is why when so many Somalis
arrived in this country, they chose the state as home. I am deeply
grateful to the people of Minnesota for the generosity, hospitality
and support they have shown to every immigrant community in our state.

We will not let Mr. Trump intimidate or debilitate us. We are not
afraid. After all, Minnesotans not only welcome refugees, they also
sent one to Congress.

_[ILHAN OMAR is a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota.]_

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