“Armed men who are in plainclothes that are snatching people off the streets, unwilling to identify themselves. You have the military being deployed in our streets. My God, this is America. You have states’ rights being disregarded. You know, the constitutional crisis that’s being created in front of our eyes.”
Omar didn’t stop there. She doubled down, accusing President Trump of using the military against American citizens:
“And the same week where we have a president who has deployed the military, who are trained to kill our enemies, not Americans, but our enemies, are in our streets. It’s the same week that we are going to have a military parade. Can you imagine that image that is going to be coming out of our country?”
The congresswoman even claimed her childhood under a Somali dictatorship was better than living in the U.S. under Trump:
“I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship. And I don’t even remember ever witnessing anything like that. To have a democracy, a beacon of hope for the world, to now be turned into one of the worst countries where the military are in our streets without any regard for people’s constitutional rights.”
Omar went on to accuse Trump of wasting taxpayer money on what she called a “dictator-style” military parade:
“While our president is spending millions of dollars prompting himself up like a failed dictator with a military parade. It is really shocking and it should be a wake-up call for all Americans to say this is not the country we were born in, this is not the country we believe in, this is not the country our founding fathers imagined, and this is not the country that is supported by our constitution, our ideals, our values.”
She concluded with a call to protest:
“We should all collectively be out in the streets rejecting what is taking place this week.”
But here’s the reality Omar left out: when she and her family arrived in the U.S. in 1995, Somalia was already a living nightmare.
The country had no functioning government. Warlords and militias carved it into pieces, terrorizing civilians with checkpoints, extortion, and endless violence. Famine and disease claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. The United Nations eventually abandoned its failed mission, leaving Somalia a lawless wasteland.
Ilhan Omar and her family fled after 20 armed men attacked their compound—escaping a nation that remains one of the most dangerous on earth. Even today, the U.S. State Department warns Americans to stay away at all costs.
Yet somehow, Omar thinks America under Trump was worse.
