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On the recordDecember 8, 2025
These are Americans that he is calling garbage, and we feel like there is an unhealthy obsession that he has on the Somali community, and an unhealthy and creepy obsession that he has with me.
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Ilhan Omar
Democratic · Minnesota
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cbsnews.com

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Omar responds to the president's derogatory comments about Somali Americans.

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