Ilhan Omar on Trump’s attacks on Somali-Americans
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, what does it feel like to be the target of the world's most powerful man? |
| 0:18.0 | Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is no stranger to political attacks. |
| 0:21.6 | She's a woman. She's a Democrat. She's black and she's an immigrant. |
| 0:27.6 | All of which have made her a perfect target for U.S. President Donald Trump. |
| 0:31.6 | All she does is complain, complain, complain. |
| 0:34.6 | She comes out of a country where they have no government, |
| 0:38.3 | they have no military, they have no police, they got no nut, they don't have a country. |
| 0:42.3 | But even so, what happened last week felt different. |
| 0:47.3 | David Smith, the Guardian's Washington bureau chief, |
| 0:51.3 | was among those watching Trump's televised speech in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:54.8 | I love this Elon Omar, whatever the hell her name is. |
| 0:58.3 | He revived a conspiracy theory that she married her brother to become a U.S. citizen. |
| 1:02.6 | We ought to get her to hell out. |
| 1:04.0 | She married her brother in order to get in. |
| 1:07.0 | Right? |
| 1:07.5 | She married her brother. |
| 1:08.8 | He mocked her hijab. |
| 1:11.2 | With a little chum, |
| 1:12.8 | the little turban. |
| 1:14.6 | I love her. She comes in. |
| 1:16.7 | There's nothing but bitch. |
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