Trump Says He Asked Somalia President If He’d ‘Like To Take’ Ilhan Omar Back

President Donald Trump said during a press conference Thursday that he asked Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud if he would “like to take” back Democrat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, but Mohamud declined.

Omar has faced major backlash for comments she’s made throughout her political career. Calls for her censure began in September after she remarked about the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and his supporters.

During the press conference, Trump asked Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese if she knew he had previously met with Mohamud.

“Between her and Ilman Omar and the group, I met the head of Somalia. Did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he’d like to take her back, and he said, ‘I don’t want her,’” Trump said as those in the room were heard laughing.

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On Sept. 15, Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a resolution to formally censure Omar and strip the far-left “Squad” member of her committee assignments. Mace’s move came shortly after Omar said it was “f-ed up” for people to remember Kirk for his good deeds just a day after his assassination.

“I think there are a lot of people out there talking about him just wanting to have a civil debate,” Omar told Zeteo News’ Mehdi Hasan. “There is nothing more f-ed up than to completely pretend that his words and actions have not been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so.”

“These people are full of shit, and it’s important for us to call them out,” Omar added.

In addition to her comments, Omar also reposted a video online that called Kirk a “reprehensible human being,” “stochastic terrorist” and a “transphobe.”

Mace brought the resolution to the House floor for a vote on Sept. 17. Lawmakers voted 214–213 to table the measure, with four Republicans joining Democrats to block Omar from being censured.

According to Britannica, Omar and her family fled Somalia in 1991 when she was 8 years old after the start of the Somali Civil War. They spent four years in Kenya before being granted asylum in the U.S. in 1995. By 1997, the family settled in Minnesota, and Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 at the age of 17.