White House Fires Back at Ilhan Omar with McDonald’s Jab, Echoes Trump’s Call to Send Her Back

In a move that triggered outrage on the left and applause from the America First base, the White House under President Trump took direct aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar this week using a viral image and a few well-placed jabs to remind her exactly who’s in charge.

It started when Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and vocal member of the far-left "Squad," appeared in an old interview saying she wasn’t worried about being deported.

“I have no worry,” she said on The Dean Obeidallah Show. “I don’t know how they’d take away my citizenship and like deport me… I’m grown, my kids are grown. Like I could go live wherever I want.”

The White House social media team responded Monday by posting a now-viral photo of President Trump waving from a McDonald’s drive-thru window, captioned with no words just the unmistakable implication: “Goodbye.”

It was more than a meme. It was a message. One that says: if you hate America so much, no one’s stopping you from leaving.

Omar’s rise in American politics has long been controversial. Born in Somalia, she and her family fled the country during the civil war, spending years in a Kenyan refugee camp before being granted asylum in the U.S. in 1995. She became a citizen in 2000, and by 2018, she was in Congress where she’s since made a name for herself bashing the very country that gave her safety, opportunity, and power.

Trump, never one to shy away from a fight, has been calling out Omar for years, famously suggesting in 2019 that she and other Squad members should “go back” to their “broken and crime-infested countries” if they hate America so much.

And in case anyone thought he was backing off? Think again.

Earlier this month, Trump posted on Truth Social that Omar "should go back" to Somalia pairing it with a video of her speaking in Somali. At a September campaign stop, he even joked that the president of Somalia didn’t want her back either.

“You know, I met the head of Somalia,” Trump said. “I suggested that maybe he’d like to take her back. He said, ‘I don’t want her.’”

Omar fired back, calling Trump a “lying buffoon,” but the truth is clear: Trump’s message is resonating. His criticism of Omar and what she represents isn’t about race or background. It’s about loyalty to America.

Let’s not forget:

• Omar once described the 9/11 terrorist attacks as “some people did something.”

• She has accused U.S. troops of war crimes while giving cover to known anti-Israel voices.

• She regularly paints law enforcement, capitalism, and the Constitution as fundamentally unjust.

This isn’t someone fighting for reform this is someone who sees America as the problem. And when she brushes off deportation threats with smug indifference, it only strengthens the case that she’s more committed to grievance than gratitude.

Trump’s McDonald’s post a callback to his campaign stop in Pennsylvania where he worked the fry station was both humorous and surgical. It reminds the American people that we can laugh, but we can also hold the line.

Because whether Omar wants to admit it or not, there’s a growing number of Americans who are sick of elected officials trashing the country from within while refusing to acknowledge the freedoms and prosperity they enjoy as a result.

If Ilhan Omar really believes she could “live anywhere” maybe it’s time she tried.

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