If you’ve been online on April 13, you might’ve noticed that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s name has surged to the top of Twitter’s trending list. While the messages are really sweet, the reason why she might need support is kind of messed up. The
If you’ve been online on April 13, you might’ve noticed that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s name has surged to the top of Twitter’s trending list. While the messages are really sweet, the reason why she might need support is kind of messed up. The «I Stand With Ilhan Omar» hashtag is in response to a tweet President Donald Trump sent blasting the freshman congresswoman over her «response» to 9/11. Elite Daily reached out to the White House for comment on the video and the subsequent reactions, but did not hear back by the time of publication.
It started with Trump tweeting a video on April 12 that splices a clip of a comment Omar made while speaking at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in March into videos of the Sept. 11,2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But the comment, which came while Omar was discussing how terrorism has led to Islamophobia, is edited in a way that paints her out to be dismissive of the tragedy. According to NPR, the full quote was «CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.» But the video only focuses on the «some people did something» comment, so when paired with the 9/11 footage, it looks horrible.
«WE WILL NEVER FORGET!» Trump wrote alongside the video. It marks yet another time the president has attacked the Muslim lawmaker and people are seriously sick of it.
