Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar accused President Trump of having an unhealthy obsession with her, one that requires medical attention, after he referred to the Somali native as “garbage.”
“We can go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country,” Trump said during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting that touched on many topics, including immigration.
“Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage,” Trump added, attacking the entire Somali diaspora in the United States.
Omar’s family fled Somalia to escape the civil war when she was 8 years old, according to her House of Representatives biography page. After spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, her family arrived in New York in 1995 before eventually settling in Minn

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