Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking issue with comments from out-of-state Democrats that he believes downplay the horror of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

He spotlighted comments from U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at New College of Florida—Sainer Auditorium .

Mamdani recently said his aunt did not “feel safe in her hijab” in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and that she stopped taking the subway.

DeSantis accused Mamdani of “phony emotion” and jabbed Mamdani for saying “the real hurt of 9/11 was that his aunt got a dirty look on a subway, not that thousands of people were murdered by jihadists.”

DeSantis said Omar claimed that 9/11 “was just somebody did something,” a reference to a quote the Somali-American made in 2019 false

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