President Donald Trump used a White House event to deliver a blistering denunciation of Somali migrants and to demand that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) be deported from the United States.
The president appeared in the Oval Office alongside American fishermen as he signed a proclamation reopening nearly half a million square miles of Pacific waters to commercial fishing by rolling back what he described as onerous Obama-era restrictions on three marine national monuments. According to Gateway Pundit, the move was framed by Trump as part of a broader effort to restore economic opportunity to working Americans who, in his view, have been sidelined by globalist policies and a political class more interested in appeasing activists than supporting those who built the country.
During the event, New Tang Dynasty (NTD) correspondent Iris Tao asked Trump about the significance of inviting ordinary Americans into the White House and giving them a voice in policymaking. The question prompted Trump to contrast the fishermen and other workers present with what he called foreign complainers and welfare abusers whom he accused of undermining the nations identity and finances.
These people built the country, not the complainers, Trump responded, gesturing toward the fishermen and other guests in the room. He added that the complainers and foreign welfare fraudsters didnt build America, but instead have ripped off our system while contributing little in return.
I watch all these ingrates, theyre always complaining, complaining. They didnt build anything, they couldnt build anything, Trump continued, escalating his criticism of those he sees as exploiting American generosity. Look at whats happened in Minnesota, Somalia. All these people came in from Somalia; they ripped off our system.
From there, Trump turned his fire directly on Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali-born Democrat who has long been a lightning rod for controversy over her anti-police rhetoric, anti-Israel positions, and repeated attacks on the United States. He referred to Omar as the woman who married her brother, invoking long-circulating allegations that she entered into a sham marriage to facilitate immigration fraud.
She came in, married her brother, isnt that wonderful? And then she talks about the Constitution of the United States, Trump said, mocking Omars frequent invocations of constitutional protections while she denounces the country that granted her refuge. She comes from Somalia. They dont have constitutions in Somalia, they dont have police, they dont have any All they have is people that run around shooting each other. And then she comes and tells us how to run our country. I dont like it.
Trump insisted that his frustration is shared by many Americans who are tired of being lectured by activists and politicians who, in his view, show little gratitude for the freedoms and prosperity they enjoy. These people dont like it. I can tell you, he said, arguing that Omars posture toward the United States is deeply out of step with the values of the citizens she claims to represent.
He went on to accuse Omar of arriving from a place without anything and then presuming to dictate how the United States should be governed. She comes in, Ilhan Omar, she comes in, she tells us how to run the United States of America, and she comes from a place without anything, without anything, probably among the worst countries in the world, Trump said, drawing a stark contrast between Americas constitutional order and Somalias chronic instability.
And she says, The Constitution of the United States protects me. She shouldnt be protected, Trump declared, arguing that constitutional safeguards should not be a shield for those who allegedly abuse the system. She honestly, she should be thrown out of the country. Shes corrupt, and most of the people that came in are corrupt, and the whole voting system is corrupt in Minnesota.
Trump also revived his longstanding claim that he actually carried Minnesota, a state that has not voted Republican in a presidential race since 1972. I won Minnesota three times easily. I won almost every county, but they didnt give it to me, he asserted, describing Minnesota as a corrupt system, a very corrupt state.
He then broadened his criticism to the states Democratic leadership, accusing them of presiding over a culture of fraud and lawlessness. The governor is terrible. The attorney general is terrible. Theyre all very corrupt people, Trump said, singling out the states top officials as emblematic of what he views as a broader breakdown of integrity in blue-state governance.
The exchange with Tao underscored Trumps broader message that the nations backbone is found in its workers, not in its political class or activist elite. These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didnt build the country; these people built the country, whether its fishermen or farmers or anything else, me, guys like me, they built the country, he said, reiterating his belief that everyday Americans, not bureaucrats or foreign interests, should be at the center of national policy.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Senator J.D. Vance, Trumps running mate, delivered a press briefing last month in which he addressed the explosive allegation that Omar married her brother to fraudulently obtain citizenship. Vance stated that the claim is something the Department of Justice is looking at right now and further suggested, Were going to prosecute that crime.
Vance has also recently referred Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Department of Justices anti-fraud division for a criminal investigation. That referral followed allegations from the House Oversight Committee that Walz and Ellison allowed Somali immigrants to steal billions of dollars through welfare fraud and then helped cover up the scandal rather than protect taxpayers.
Against this backdrop of alleged systemic corruption and welfare abuse, Trumps remarks reflect a broader conservative concern that Americas generosity is being weaponized against it by those who neither respect its laws nor share its values. His call for accountabilityfrom Omar to Minnesotas leadershipaligns with a growing demand on the right for stricter immigration enforcement, tougher action on fraud, and a renewed focus on the citizens who, as Trump put it, built the country and are now demanding that their leaders finally defend it.
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