House Democrat calls out Trump’s ‘beyond weird obsession’

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00:00House Democrat calls out Trump's beyond weird obsession.

00:04Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar publicly criticized Donald Trump for what she described as a beyond weird fixation on her.

00:11By responding to a series of remarks he made during an affordability-themed rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania,

00:17Trump's obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.

00:22Since he has no economic policies to tout, he's resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.

00:27He continues to be a national embarrassment, she wrote on X.

00:31Her comments followed Trump's extended attack on her during the event,

00:35where he encouraged supporters to revive the send-her-back chant first heard at his Greenville, North Carolina rally in 2019.

00:43Trump's rally in Pennsylvania was promoted by his campaign as an affordability event,

00:47targeting voters worried about increasing prices.

00:50In his speech, he transitioned from discussing the economy to immigration,

00:54connecting the two topics and making several personal comments about Omar.

00:58According to reporting from Newsweek and Fox 9 Minneapolis,

01:02Trump referred to her by saying,

01:03Ilhan Omar, whatever her name is, with her little turban.

01:07I love her.

01:08She comes in, does nothing but,

01:10we ought to get her out.

01:11She's here illegally.

01:13The crowd responded with chants of,

01:15send her back,

01:16which Trump allowed to continue before resuming his speech.

01:18He also repeated the allegation that Omar married her brother,

01:22something he's continued to spread despite no verified evidence supporting it.

01:26Omar made her way to the United States as a refugee in 1995,

01:30and became a naturalized citizen in 2000,

01:33meaning she can't be deported under U.S. immigration law.

01:36Trump has increasingly tied affordability concerns to immigration,

01:40arguing that illegal immigration contributes to inflation.

01:43At the Pennsylvania rally,

01:45he claimed that 25 million people came into our country,

01:48totally unchecked and unvetted,

01:51a figure he has repeated at other events.

01:54His remarks about Somali immigrants follow earlier statements made during a cabinet meeting,

01:59where he said,

02:00they contribute nothing.

02:01I don't want them in our country.

02:03He later told reporters,

02:05Somalians should be out of here.

02:07These comments have drawn scrutiny from civil rights groups and lawmakers,

02:10who argue that Trump is using immigration rhetoric to energize his political base.

02:16The Hill reported that Trump has recently focused on Somali migrants in Minnesota,

02:20amid federal investigations into fraud schemes involving some individuals in the state,

02:25though Omar has not been implicated in those cases.

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