Rep. Ilhan Omar said President Donald Trump's recent comments attacking Somali immigrants and calling her "garbage" are part of a long pattern of rhetoric that puts communities at risk in an opinion essay published Thursday in The New York Times.
"On Tuesday, President Trump called my friends and me 'garbage,'" Omar wrote, adding that the president "has demonized and spread conspiracy theories about the Somali community and about me personally," and that he "reaches for the same playbook of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and division again and again."
