The New Yorker:

Cristian Farias
A journalist covering courts and the law.

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.”

Omar was not surprised. “He has trafficked in racism and xenophobia and bigotry and Islamophobia for as long as he has held office,” she told NPR. In 2019, a Democratic-controlled House, with the support of four Republicans, rebuked the President over his remarks demanding that Omar and other minority newcomers to Congress “go back” to their home countries.

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