Has Ilhan Omar issued a public statement or social media response denying or confirming the Somalia quote?
Executive summary
Ilhan Omar has publicly responded to President Trump’s recent attacks on Somali migrants and comments about her, calling his “obsession” with her “creepy” and saying she will not leave the U.S.; multiple news outlets report she posted a message on X and answered reporters that “I’m not going anywhere” [1] [2]. Major outlets — The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC and regional reporting — cite Omar’s social posts and on‑camera replies as her primary rebuttals to Trump’s December 2, 2025 remarks [1] [3] [4] [2].
1. Omar’s direct public responses: “I’m not going anywhere”
Video and social‑media reporting show Omar confronting a reporter’s taunt about “packing bags for Somalia” and replying she will stay and “be here longer than Trump,” while also calling Trump “deranged” or “some old man losing his mind” in variants reported online [2] [5] [6]. News outlets say she also responded on X (formerly Twitter) that Trump’s fixation on her is “creepy” and that she hopes he “gets the help he desperately needs,” a line quoted in mainstream coverage [4] [2].
2. Context: the comments that prompted her response
Press coverage traces Omar’s responses to a cabinet‑room tirade in which President Trump disparaged Somali migrants and called Rep. Omar “garbage,” saying Somalia “stinks and we don’t want them in our country” and urging that Somalis “go back to where they came from,” remarks documented by The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian and NBC [1] [3] [7] [4]. Those outlets frame Omar’s rebuttal as a defensive answer to sustained attacks from the president.
3. What mainstream outlets explicitly report she said and where
The New York Times and NBC cite an X post by Omar calling Trump’s behavior an unhealthy obsession and quote her short social comments; The Indian Express and several regional outlets describe the viral video of her being confronted and saying “I am not going anywhere” on camera [1] [4] [2]. Fox News and other outlets also covered her remarks, quoting her characterization of the president’s focus on her and Somali migrants as “creepy” [8].
4. Disinformation risk and partisan amplification
Fringe and partisan sites in the search results recycle or distort the exchange: Pravda‑branded pages aggressively frame Omar’s replies in sensational terms and some activist sites push conspiratorial claims about her background or motives [5] [6] [9] [10]. Mainstream outlets used in this sample — NYT, Washington Post, NBC, Guardian — stick to quoting her posts and on‑camera remarks; where more extreme claims appear, they originate from partisan or fringe sources not corroborated by the major outlets in the results [5] [6] [9] [10].
5. What the available sources do not say
Available sources do not mention Omar issuing a formal, extended written denial or legal affidavit refuting a specific attributed “Somalia quote” beyond her short X post and on‑camera replies cited above; they do not show a longer prepared statement or press release explicitly denying every variant of misattribution [1] [4] [2]. If you are asking whether she published a comprehensive, point‑by‑point denial of a particular quoted remark (for example, a detailed rebuttal published on her congressional site), current reporting in this set does not mention such a document [11].
6. Competing narratives and how to judge them
Mainstream coverage presents Omar’s response as a direct and public rebuttal to Trump’s disparagement [1] [3] [4]. Partisan and fringe outlets amplify or recast snippets for political effect — either to lionize her defiance or to depict her as disingenuous. Given that major outlets quote her X posts and the viral on‑camera line “I’m not going anywhere,” the most reliable conclusion from these sources is that Omar publicly rejected the idea she would leave and criticized the president’s fixation [1] [4] [2]. Claims beyond those quoted reactions are not documented in the provided reporting [1] [2].
7. Takeaway for readers and researchers
If you need to verify a specific alleged Omar quotation about Somalia (beyond her denials that she’s leaving and her “creepy” tweet about Trump’s obsession), consult primary sources: her official House communications page and the archived X post cited by NYT/NBC, because current mainstream reports reference short social posts and a viral on‑camera reply rather than a longer formal statement [11] [1] [4]. Be wary of sensationalized reposts from partisan outlets in this search set; they reframe brief remarks into broader claims not found in the major‑media accounts here [5] [6] [9].