Trump Suggests Omar Isn't American: 'How Is Your Country Doing?'

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — President Donald Trump took aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar during a rally in Pennsylvania Tuesday night.

"How about Omar of Minnesota?" Trump said. "We’re going to win the state of Minnesota because of her, they say. She’s telling us how to run our country. How did you do where you came from? How’s your country doing? She’s going to tell us. She’s telling us how to run our country."

Omar, 37, came to the United States as a Somali refugee and became a U.S. citizen at the age of 17.

In 2018, she became the first Somali-American member of Congress. She also became one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress.

"I fled civil war when I was 8," Omar responded to Trump on Twitter. "An 8-year-old doesn’t run a country even though you run our country like one."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned Trump’s comments as "racist and xenophobic."

Since her election to the U.S. House, Trump and his supporters have often issued verbal attacks on Omar at rallies and on Twitter.

Last year, at a rally in North Carolina, Trump supporters chanted "send her back."