White House responds to Omar deportation comments with Trump image

It appears that the White House is ready for Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, from Minnesota, to leave the United States and return to Somalia, where she was born.

On Monday, the White House shared on X a photo of President Donald Trump waving goodbye through a McDonald’s window in 2024 in response to a video of Omar saying she’s not worried about being deported.

“I don’t have any concerns, I don’t know how they’re going to revoke my citizenship and deport me,” Omar said in the White House response clip, which was originally filmed on The Dean Obaidullah Show in October. “But I don’t even know what this terrifying threat is about. It’s like I’m not the 8-year-old who ran away from war anymore. I’ve grown, and my children have grown. It’s like I can live wherever I want.”

Omar’s office and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

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The photo of Trump shared by the White House dates back to October 2024 during a campaign event in Pennsylvania where he was working at a McDonald’s station.

Omar’s family evacuated Somalia to head to a refugee camp in Kenya during the Somali Civil War in 1991. The United States eventually granted her family asylum, and they came to Arlington, Virginia, in 1995 before heading to Minneapolis in 1997. Omar became a US citizen in 2000.

Trump recently suggested that Ilhan Omar should return to Somalia, saying in a November 1 Truth Social post: “She should come back!” The post was accompanied by a video of Omar speaking the Somali language.

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Likewise, Trump told reporters in September that Somalia was not interested in Omar’s return.

President Donald Trump told reporters in September that Somalia was not interested in the return of Representative Ilhan Omar. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“Did you know that I met the president of Somalia, did you know that?” Trump said. “I suggested to him that he might want it back. He said, ‘I don’t want it.'”

In response, Omar said the story was fabricated, and questioned the president’s credibility.

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“From denying that Somalia has a president to making up a story, President Trump is a lying clown,” Omar said. “No one should take this embarrassing idiot seriously.”

Trump has been involved in a dispute with Omar dating back to his first administration. For example, he criticized Omar and a few progressive lawmakers known as “the Squad” and said they should all go back to their “broken and crime-infested” countries.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has sparred with President Donald Trump for years, dating back to his first term as president. (Getty Images)

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As a result, Ilhan Omar said in a social media post in 2019 that Trump “is stoking white nationalism before you get angry that people like us are serving in congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda.”

Omar was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2018, after serving for two years in the Minnesota House of Representatives. She became the first Somali-American woman and one of the first Muslim women to be elected to Congress.