President Donald Trump subjected the crowd at his Monday night rally in Ohio to an absurd and bigoted rant about Somalis.
“They think they’re in Somalia where they don’t have pants to wear,” Trump said of Somalis living in Minnesota. “They come here, they go in BMWs and Mercedes, and they like that. Somalia, they love Mercedes. They come in, they have nothing, and they’re the number one buyers of Mercedes-Benz and BMWs in the state of Minnesota. The whole thing is crazy! Is crazy! Low IQ people.”
Trump has repeatedly insulted Somalis in the past, referring to them as “stupid people” who “come from a crooked country.”
He also insulted Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during his rally.
“She’s a disaster,” he said. “She comes in from a country without laws, without police, without military, all they do is shoot each other. … She comes from one of the worst countries anywhere on the planet.”
Earlier in the day, Homeland Security Investigations agents raided Omar’s home in Washington, D.C. That probe is reportedly related to immigration paperwork Omar’s now-deceased father filed when she was a child. She described the raid as “an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.”