Ilhan Omar Tells Trump to “Get the H*ll Out of Our Country”

President Trump told Rep. Ilhan Omar to “get the hell out of our country” during a fiery White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech, reigniting a feud that now stretches from her finances to her personal safety.

Quick Take

Trump demanded Omar “get the hell out of our country” during the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Trump claimed Omar’s reported net worth dropped from over $30 million to under $18,000, raising fraud questions.
Omar was sprayed with liquid by an attacker at a Minneapolis town hall months earlier; Trump called it “probably staged.”
Omar says Trump’s rhetoric toward her and Minnesota’s Somali community is fueling real threats against her life.

A Correspondents’ Dinner Speech That Broke From Tradition

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is normally a night of jokes and light jabs between the press and the president. This year’s rescheduled event turned into something else entirely. Trump used his remarks to go after multiple Democrats by name, and Omar became a central target when he told her flatly to leave the country she represents in Congress.

Omar fired back almost immediately, according to HuffPost’s report on the exchange. She has spent years responding to Trump’s comments about her background, her religion, and her home country of Somalia, and this dinner was simply the latest round in a fight that shows no sign of cooling down anytime soon.

Financial Allegations Add Fuel to the Feud

Trump did not stop at telling Omar to leave. He also claimed her financial disclosures were wildly inaccurate, saying her reported net worth swung from “much more than $30 million” down to “less than 18,000.” That claim has circulated alongside reports that the Department of Justice and the House Oversight Committee opened inquiries into her financial affairs, though no public ruling has settled the matter either way.

Separately, a fraud lawsuit tied to a winery connected to Omar’s husband has drawn scrutiny in press coverage. That case reportedly ended in a settlement, not a courtroom finding of guilt or innocence. Until full disclosure records or court documents are made public, voters are left with competing claims rather than a clear, documented answer on either side.

A Town Hall Attack Raises the Stakes

Weeks before the dinner, Omar was speaking at a town hall in North Minneapolis when a man rushed the stage and sprayed her with a strong-smelling liquid. The man was charged with third-degree assault. Rather than end the event, Omar reportedly waved off staff who wanted her to stop and seek medical care, choosing instead to keep speaking to the crowd.

Trump’s reaction to the attack drew its own backlash. He suggested to reporters that Omar “probably had herself sprayed,” a comment that Omar and her allies called reckless given that a real physical assault had just occurred against a sitting member of Congress. There is no public evidence supporting the staging claim, and Trump has not produced any since making it.

Years of Escalating Rhetoric

This dinner exchange did not happen in a vacuum. The New York Times has documented years of Trump telling Omar to “go back” to her country and mocking her hijab at rallies, including a Pennsylvania event where he claimed she married her brother to gain citizenship. Omar has called the pattern “an unhealthy and creepy obsession” in interviews with the Guardian.

Ilhan Omar is the elected representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district. She is a citizen of the United States. Her second husband, whom she divorced in 2019, is not her biological brother. Trump is recycling a tired and offensive old conspiracy theory.

— Robert Barton (@robertbarton110) July 25, 2026

Omar has pointed to a direct link between the rhetoric and her personal safety, telling NBC News that “each time the president resorts to hateful language regarding me and the community I represent, the threats against my life escalate significantly”. Whether or not that causal chain can be proven in a legal sense, the pattern of escalating language followed by escalating threats is hard to dismiss outright.

What Voters Should Watch Next

Conservatives who want accountability on Omar’s finances should push for the underlying disclosure records and court filings to be released publicly, not just repeated as talking points. Sunlight settles disputes better than dueling press statements. At the same time, a sitting president calling for a duly elected representative to leave the country crosses a line that deserves scrutiny regardless of party. Both things can be true, and voters deserve the receipts on each.