Rep. Ilhan Omar erupted Saturday after President Trump turned her into one of the night’s sharpest punchlines at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
At the podium Friday, the President repeated a long-disputed allegation about Omar’s former marriage, called the Minnesota Democrat a “low IQ person,” accused her of dishonesty, and said she “ought to get the hell out of our country.”
Watch the moment President Trump singled her out:
Omar did not let that one pass. She answered on X with a furious three-sentence attack of her own:
That is a remarkable response from a sitting member of Congress. Omar did not offer new evidence in the post. She called the President an idiot, accused him of destroying America, and declared that he should leave his own country.
The White House posted the complete 64-minute video of President Trump’s remarks at the Waldorf Astoria. The Omar exchange begins roughly 46 minutes into a wide-ranging dinner speech built around political jokes, media jabs, and roasts of public figures.
The full video shows the exact sequence. President Trump first made the marriage joke, then referenced Omar’s viral “World War Eleven” verbal stumble before calling her low-IQ and dishonest. The recording verifies what the President said and when he said it; it does not by itself establish the underlying marriage allegation as fact.
After the Omar passage, the President moved into comments about scrutiny of her finances and then continued through a long list of political targets. He later closed the speech wearing a red “Trump 2028” hat while joking about another run for the White House.
The Washington Examiner reports that about 700 people attended Friday’s smaller do-over at the Waldorf Astoria, compared with roughly 2,600 at the original April event. Guests passed through tighter security after an armed attacker breached a checkpoint at the first dinner and forced the program to be rescheduled.
The event was President Trump’s first White House Correspondents’ Dinner as a sitting president. He faced a room packed with members of the same press corps he has battled for years, stayed for the awards, delivered more than an hour of remarks, and said he planned to return next year.
Fox’s David Asman captured the conservative reaction to the night:
One factual boundary belongs on the record: the claim that Omar married a biological brother has not been established as fact. Omar has repeatedly denied it.
The Star Tribune reviewed marriage and divorce filings, business and university records, social-media material, and state campaign-finance findings. Its reporting found unresolved inconsistencies and unanswered questions in Omar’s marriage history, but no conclusive public evidence establishing that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was her biological brother.
The newspaper also found little publicly available information about Elmi and noted that some older social-media material had disappeared. It reported that reliable family documentation can be especially difficult to recover for refugees who fled countries with damaged or limited government records.
Those gaps left room for continued questions. They did not turn the allegation into a proven fact.
That makes President Trump’s line a political jab built on a disputed allegation, not a proven adjudication.
Omar’s response, however, is not in dispute. She published every word under her own name.
President Trump took the microphone in a room full of hostile media, cracked the joke, and kept moving. Omar went to X and unloaded.
She may have wanted the last word. Instead, she showed exactly how hard the joke landed.
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