Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump repeated a racist conspiracy theory about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and called for Somali immigrants to be deported to “perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth.”

“Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. ‘Congresswoman’ Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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Omar, a frequent Trump critic and progressive Congresswoman, is a Somali refugee and the first Somali American to serve in Congress. She first came to the United States in 1995 as an asylee, and became a citizen at 17 in 2000.

She is also the target of various racist conspiracy theories. Trump refers to one that was going around since 2016, that Omar married her brother in order to obtain U.S. citizenship. The claim has been widely debunked.

This is not the first time Trump has invoked the racist conspiracy theory. In 2019, he made the allegations on national television during a White House press gaggle.

“There’s a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it. I hear that she was married to her brother,” Trump said at the time. “I don’t know but I’m sure that somebody would be looking at that.”

Though Omar applied for a marriage license in 2002 to wed Ahmed Hirsi, they did not go through with a civil wedding and the license was never filed. In 2009, after Omar had become a citizen, she wed British national Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, though the couple separated in 2011 with Omar officially filing for divorce in 2017. Omar is, obviously, not related to either Hirsi or Elmi.

The claim first appeared on a Somali-community discussion forum and was picked up by a conservative blog, Powerline, though no evidence beyond the original post was offered.

“For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee status to come to America, where in the world am I finding a sibling 15 years, 20 years later to seek to do what people accuse me of?” Omar told the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 2018, according to Snopes.

Trump’s reference to Minnesota fraud is about a video that was released this week by YouTuber Nick Shirley. Shirley’s video alleges widespread fraud in Minnesota’s child care industry. The video has gone viral among right-wing politicians and influencers with over 2 million views, according to CNN.

The video claims that child care centers, primarily those run by Somali immigrants, are not actually providing services. However, CBS News reports that not all of  the locations cited by Shirley had active licenses. Of the active centers, state regulators visited them all and found no recorded evidence of fraud.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called on Americans to engage in a “2026 tax revolt” on Wednesday morning, alleging too much money was being spent on “foreign countries, foreign wars, and foreigners.”

Greene made a number of posts on both her government X account and her own personal account.

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“Almost every Trump voter I see on X is so fed up they are planning a 2026 tax revolt. And rightfully so! It’s because Americans work their asses off, barely make ends meet, and the government consistently gives their hard earned tax dollars to foreign countries, foreign wars, and foreigners the U.S. government has brought/allowed into America! And NOTHING is given to Americans!!! We have nearly $40 Trillion in debt, unaffordable healthcare, unaffordable housing, and the dollar loses value every day. Meanwhile the government, NO MATTER WHICH PARTY IS IN CHARGE, screws over Americans. What will it take to put the American people first???” Greene wrote.

Almost every Trump voter I see on X is so fed up they are planning a 2026 tax revolt.

And rightfully so!

It’s because Americans work their asses off, barely make ends meet, and the government consistently gives their hard earned tax dollars to foreign countries, foreign wars,…

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 31, 2025

“Trump spent the weekend with Zelensky and Netanyahu, Pentagon fails audit again, meanwhile Americans are planning a tax revolt because they don’t know what else to do to get their elected officials to stop their money from being given to thieves, foreigners, and foreign wars,” Greene wrote in another post.

Trump spent the weekend with Zelensky and Netanyahu, Pentagon fails audit again, meanwhile Americans are planning a tax revolt because they don’t know what else to do to get their elected officials to stop their money from being given to thieves, foreigners, and foreign wars. https://t.co/aRioPMgZ2W

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 31, 2025

She also started a thread of retweets of people on X who were promising to withhold their taxes.

“This is how angry Americans are and rightfully so, with nearly $40 Trillion in debt and Social Security becoming insolvent in 2033. Now imagine if millions of Americans did this,” she wrote introducing the thread.

This is how angry Americans are and rightfully so, with nearly $40 Trillion in debt and Social Security becoming insolvent in 2033.

Now imagine if millions of Americans did this. https://t.co/tqIa3G7Bjb

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 30, 2025

Tax strike rallies are scheduled for Saturday across the country, according to Newsweek. The protests appear to be coming from the right, Newsweek reported, with libertarian and  MAGA movement figures set to deliver speeches.

Greene was once a staunch ally of President Donald Trump. However, when she joined Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) on a bill compelling the Department of Justice to release all files on sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, the president turned on her. Trump has referred to her as “Marjorie Traitor Greene” and “Marjorie Taylor Brown” (explaining that “Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!”) on Truth Social. Shortly Trump’s turn, Greene announced she would be retiring from Congress on January 5.

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A day after President Donald Trump used the first veto of his second term to nix a Colorado water project, Trump took to Truth Social to slam the state.

“California and Colorado are two of the TOP OUTBOUND STATES IN 2025 (United Van Lines!) – In other words, PEOPLE LEAVING!!! That’s what bad governors do to even places blessed with beautiful surrounds and climate. President DJT,” Trump wrote Wednesday morning.

Trump’s post refers to a new study by United Van Lines that California and Colorado were the No. 3 and No. 5 states in its list of states people are moving away from. New Jersey and New York topped the list, which was rounded out by North Dakota, Mississippi and Massachusetts.

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The post comes a day after Trump vetoed a bill that would use federal funding for the Arkansas Valley Conduit. The bipartisan bill would provide drinking water to areas in rural Colorado with contaminated groundwater, according to Newsweek.

“Enough is enough. My administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable projects,” Trump said.

Though in his post Trump blames “bad governors,” and Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has been a frequent Trump foe, Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert may be a target of his ire. After Trump’s veto, Boebert issued a statement condemning the veto and suggesting it may have been retaliation for her vote on a bill compelling the Department of Justice to release the files on disgraced financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

“President Trump decided to veto a completely non-controversial, bipartisan bill that passed both the House and Senate unanimously. Why? Because nothing says ‘America First’ like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in Southeast Colorado, many of whom enthusiastically voted for him in all three elections,” Boebert wrote.

“I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability. Americans deserve leadership that puts people over politics,” she added.

The House and Senate may override Trump’s veto. To override a veto, lawmakers need a two-thirds majority in both chambers. While this is rare, given that the Arkansas Valley Conduit project passed unanimously the first time, it seems likely the veto will be stopped.

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