"Donald Trump's back-to-back tirades this week against Somali immigrants in Minnesota, many of whom are U.S. citizens, brought into the open the kind of virulence that, during his first term, the President mostly tried to keep behind closed doors. "Their country stinks, and we don't want them in our country," Trump said on Tuesday, during a Cabinet meeting. On Wednesday, after an event at the White House, he called Somalia "a hellhole" and complained that Somalis have "destroyed our country.""
"Both times, he trained his sights on the Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar, who is Somali-born and has been on the receiving end of similar rhetoric since she was first elected to the House, in 2018. Among other insults, including that Omar "should be thrown the hell out of our country," Trump added, "She's always talking about the Constitution. Go back to your own country and figure out your own constitution.""
Donald Trump publicly attacked Somali immigrants in Minnesota, calling Somalia "a hellhole" and saying "we don't want them in our country." He targeted Representative Ilhan Omar, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, urging her to "go back to your own country" while criticizing her references to the Constitution. The remarks reflect ongoing racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia that have marked the presidency and previously prompted a 2019 House rebuke. The Fourteenth Amendment and other legal doctrines are raised as possible bases for constraining or responding to presidential expressions of prejudice aimed at naturalized citizens.
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