In his online post, Trump described Somalia, Omar’s country of birth, as plagued by corruption and dysfunction before turning his criticism directly at her. “All of this, and Ilhan Omar tells us how to run America! … What SCUM we have in our country, telling us what to do, and how to do it,” he wrote. “He’s supposed to be the president of the United States, heading off to Europe to represent us. Omar further argued that rhetoric from Trump and his Republican allies revealed “how stupid they are,” and risked damaging the country’s image abroad.