Speaking with reporters on Air Force One during a press event on Sunday, January 4, President Donald Trump sounded off on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and the Somali migrant community that she represents, claiming as he spoke that Rep. Omar is a “total crook” and that she, along with all the other Somalis, should be deported.
Kicking off the discussion, President Trump skewered Gov. Tim Walz (D) of Minnesota, claiming that Walz is “low IQ” and “corrupt”, saying, “It’s almost not even believable, this very stupid, low IQ governor. He’s a very stupid man because, you know, I had a campaign against him with JD, and he’s a stupid man, and he’s a corrupt politician.”
Adding to that, the president noted that the total amount of Somali-committed fraud in Minnesota could be $50 billion, saying, “And the Somalians are ripping off our country to the tune of, looks like $19 billion but that’s only what they can find. So usually, when you look at it, 19, that would mean it could be 50. But the numbers are astronomical. Think of it.”
Then, ridiculing Somalia generally, characterizing it as a hellish and anarchic land, the president snapped, “They have a dead country. They don’t have government, they don’t have anything. They don’t have a military. All they do is run around shooting people and trying to capture ships.”
Digressing for a moment and commenting on how the piracy problem has been largely solved, the president said, “You know, we don’t let them take ships anymore. You know why we use the same exact pistol on them that we use on the drug carriers, and it’s very effective. You notice there’s nobody capturing ships anymore, because as they head out to go capture the ship, and the ship doesn’t want to fire back, because it’s very flammable stuff in many cases. And the insurance companies don’t want because they, you know, they build a billion-dollar ship, and they don’t want anybody firing rockets into the ship, but we’re hitting them so hard. And it’s very similar, same, same missile system. It’s called deadly accurate. And you notice that ships aren’t being taken anymore.”
Then, after noting that the Somali pirates are continually being destroyed, the president noted, “The shipping business is coming back. Because, see, these are little things that we’re doing, and I’m doing it not just for American ships. I’m doing it worldwide, because we don’t want ships taken by Somalia, Somalia pirates.”
Returning to the matter of Somalis in America, President Trump commented on how they are stealing from us and why he think Omar is a crook, saying, “But what they are doing is they’re stealing money from the American taxpayer, and every one of them should be forced to leave this country, including Ilhan Omar, who’s a total crook, and she’s one of the leaders of it, not the only, because he’s not that smart, but think of it, $19 billion at least, they’ve stolen from Minnesota and from the United States.”
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Concluding, he said, “It’s actually more from the United States, because Minnesota puts in, and we’re not going to pay it anymore. We’re going to have walls go pay. We’re not going to pay them, and we’re not going to pay California, and we’re not going to pay Illinois with a big slob of a governor that they have.”
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