With “rage bait” declared 2025’s word of the year, Somali Americans have fittingly responded to Donald Trump’s latest wave of xenophobic attacks not with fear but with something far more subversive: Humor. Online satire, memes, artificial intelligence-generated folklore and parody Bible verses have become the community’s preferred medium of resistance. The effect has been to turn the president’s inflammatory rhetoric into a mirror that reflects just how ridiculous and brittle MAGA’s nationalist claims really are.

Last week, Trump unleashed a withering tirade against Somali immigrants, targeting the large community in Minnesota, which has the largest Somali population of any state in America. The attacks were particularly vicious, even for him. From the Oval Office, flanked by Cabinet offi

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