Overview
- The official White House X account replied to a resurfaced video of Rep. Ilhan Omar with a 2024 image of President Trump waving from a McDonald’s drive‑through window, a post that quickly went viral.
- The clip prompting the reply came from Omar’s October appearance on The Dean Obeidallah Show, where she said she wasn’t worried about being deported and could live wherever she wanted.
- Trump intensified his criticism in a Monday Fox News interview and earlier wrote on Nov. 1 on Truth Social, “She should go back!”, continuing his yearslong calls for Omar to leave the U.S.
- Omar responded on X, “Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says,” after Trump mocked her references to constitutional limits.
- Trump’s claim that Somalia’s president said he would not “take her back” remains disputed by Omar, and there is no reported formal action to revoke her citizenship, which she obtained in 2000 after arriving in the U.S. as a refugee.