‘I am not going anywhere’: Ilhan Omar says when asked if she ‘started packing bags for Somalia’ | World News
A video has gone viral on social media showing Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar being confronted a journal, who asked the Somalia-born lawmaker if she had started packing her bags to go back to her country of origin.‘I’m not going anywhere. Don’t waste your energy on me’ she said, adding that “I will be here longer than Trump.”
She also hit out at US President Donald Tump, saying, “He is an old man losing his mind. Hope he gets help.”
Jihadi Congresswoman Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN became belligerent, saying, “I’ll be around longer than Trump,” “Trump is deranged,” and “I am not going anywhere,” after @loomerunleashed @thecharlesdowns asked her today if President Trump was right when he said she married her brother. https://t.co/JTvW4DguDI pic.twitter.com/aCLUaz5vtZ— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) December 2, 2025
The video was posted conservative activ Laura Loomer, and the person who asked the question has been identified as a reporter working with her weekly show “Loomer Unleashed.”
43-year-old Omar, who has been the US representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional drict since 2019, had been on the receiving end of massive online trolling right-wing activs following Trump’s recent comments about her and immigrants from Somalia in the wake of the Washington, DC shooting last week, which was carried out an Afghan national.
US Representative Ilhan Omar attends a news conference addressing the anti-Muslim comments made Representative Lauren Boebert towards Omar. (Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)
Trump targets Somali immigrants
Trump on Tuesday said he did not want Somali immigrants in the US, and suggested they should go back to their home country.Story continues below this ad
“They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Your country stinks and we don’t want them in our country,” Trump said.
He specifically pledged to terminate temporary legal protections for Somalis living in Minnesota, which is home to the largest Somali diaspora in the United States.
Trump vs Omar
In the past few days, Trump has also unleashed attacks on Omar, suggesting that she came to the US illegally, and also repeated unsubstantiated allegations that she married her brother to come to America.
On Tuesday, Trump called Omar ‘garbage’.
“Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage,” Trump said, to which the Democrat responded on social media, saying, “His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.”
His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs. https://t.co/pxOpAChHse— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) December 2, 2025
Omar, whose family fled the civil war in Somalia, spent several years in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to the US in 1995 when she was a child.
