As President Donald Trump fielded questions at a press conference about the deadly Washington, D.C. shooting against two National Guard troops, he went off into a strange non-sequitur attacking Somalians — and had to be reminded by reporters that this was in no way relevant to the discussion.
“If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota,” said Trump.
“What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?” a reporter challenged him.
“Ah, nothing,” Trump admitted. “But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They’re ripping us off.”
The Somali community in Minneapolis, which grew in the 1990s from immigrants who fled a civil war in their home country, has been a particular sore point for Trump and the MAGA movement ever since the election in Trump’s first term of Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who fled East Africa as a child and is one of the first ever Muslim women elected to Congress.
Trump has claimed he tried to have her deported to Somalia, to which Omar responded by calling him a “lying buffoon.”
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