You Are One of The Dumbest People on Earth’: Ilhan Omar Fires Back at Elon Musk
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Via: john-russell • 10 months ago • 28 commentsBy: Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) had some pointed remarks for Elon Musk after the billionaire claimed that the lawmaker only gets reelected because of the Somali Americans in her district.
Omar was born in Somalia and has represented Minnesota's fifth congressional district, which includes all of Minneapolis, since 2019. The district and the surrounding area have been roiled in recent weeks by the deployment of agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as Border Patrol. Last week, an ICE agent shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis as she attempted to drive away from him.
Musk, who was born in South Africa, has espoused increasingly anti-immigration views, including replacement theory, which posits that liberal, often Jewish elites want to import large swaths of immigrants to replace white people.
On Monday, Musk agreed with a post claiming that undocumented immigrants have been deliberately incentivized to come to the U.S.
"How is this not treason[?]" the poster asked.
"This has been happening for years," Musk alleged in response. "Ilhan Omar is the most obvious example. A large number of relatively recently arrived Somalis will elect only a Somali to Congress in that Minnesota district. This is much more subtle, but just as bad, in many other parts of America."
A few hours later, Omar fired back on Musk's platform.
"You are one of the dumbest people on earth, my district is literally a majority white district," she wrote. "Your conspiracy theories are laughable and should have no place in a society that cares about facts."
You are one of the dumbest people on earth, my district is literally a majority white district. Your conspiracy theories are laughable and should have no place in a society that cares about facts. https://t.co/FgYEoOVZZk — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 12, 2026
One user asked Grok, Musk's AI chatbot that inundated the X platform with sexualized images of women and children, to assess Omar's district. Grok correctly stated that Omar's district is approximately 60% white.
Last week, Musk quote-tweeted a post called, "If White men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Musk agreed by using a "100" percent emoji.
Right-wing media outlets have breathlessly covered the Somali community in recent weeks after dozens of people in Minnesota were indicted as part of a welfare fraud scandal. Prosecutors say the fraud was prevalent in Somali communities.
The spotlight on Minnesota's Somali community became more intense after YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a now-viral video in which showed up unannounced at several Somali-run daycares in the Minneapolis area. When the establishments did not allow Shirley, a stranger with a camera, into the facility to see the children inside, he concluded that the establishments must be fraudulent.
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I wonder if her being a black African female has anything to do with it. Could that even be possible ?
The GOP is the party of racism....So you tell me.
Remember, it was the liberal GOP under Lincoln that abolished slavery,
so it is the ideology that affiliates with slavery and racism, not the Party affiliation of the moment.
It's funny. It's a like a 10 year old who got cut from his little league team telling Shohei Ohtani he's one of the worst baseball players in the world.
Do you agree with the genius who married her brother John, is investigating massive taxpayer fraud a waste of government money? Is that what progressives believe now?
There is no charge for insulting someone. Musk said Ilhan couldnt be elected in a non Somalian district, but evidently she has been.
The other day Musk retweeted a blatantly white supremacist tweet. That sounds pretty stupid to me.
who married her brother
You cling to the most ridiculous accusations like stink on shit.
Lol. And when I showed you the evidence, you said "that's way too much information too look at"
No credible evidence shows that Ilhan Omar ever married her brother. Multiple independent fact‑checks and investigations have repeatedly found no proof supporting the rumor, and reputable sources describe the claim as unsubstantiated or false.
🔍 What the Evidence Shows
🧾 Fact‑Checks From Reputable Sources
Times Now News reports that “thorough fact‑checks and investigations have consistently debunked these claims” and that no evidence supports the allegation that Omar married her brother.
MSN reiterates that the rumor has circulated since 2016 but that no evidence has ever been produced to substantiate it.
WION News states that “multiple fact‑checks and investigations have proved the claim false”.
Factually.co compiles fact‑checks from AP News, Snopes, and others, all concluding the same: the allegation is unproven and contradicted by available documentation .
🧩 Where the Rumor Came From
The claim originated in online forums and political attacks around 2016.
It resurfaced periodically, often during moments of political tension.
Even recent political pushes to subpoena records acknowledge that the accusation remains unproven .
📚 What Is Known About Her Marriages
Ilhan Omar has been married three times.
The man at the center of the rumor, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi , has never been proven to be her biological brother.
No official documents, immigration records, or credible investigations have verified any familial relationship.
🧠 Why the Claim Persists
Rumors like this tend to stick because:
They are emotionally charged.
They get amplified by political figures or social media.
They exploit gaps in public understanding of refugee family structures and naming conventions.
But repetition doesn’t equal truth— and every credible investigation has found no evidence .
That's a lie.
How often do you have to look ridiculous relying on these these things before you stop? "Fact checkers" are not honest brokers and engines that only rely on left wing sources feed you left wing propaganda.
It is a particularly odd thing to call a man with his list of achievements.
The irony is compounded by her "majority white district " statement, which while factually correct does imply a poor understanding of basic math.
Roughly 80% of US senators represent "majority white districts", but minority voting blocks still swing large numbers of elections.
Even if there's a White majority there's probably still 45-48% that vote Republican, so she doesn't have to contend with them in a Primary. If we were to assume that the White Democrats would vote for someone else in the primary you'd still need the Democratic Party to allow it which they won't because she checks too many boxes. So by Party mandate she is the Dems only choice unless there's a third party Candidate but then that's still a long shot because she has her Samali Base and the Dems won't split the vote because it would allow the Republicans to win so as long as she has the Democratic Parties blessing she owns that District.
what are his achievements exactly?
He stole Tesla from the guys who invented the car. He doesn't engineer the rockets that go into space. He gets US taxpayer dollars to operate SpaceX. That's not an achievement. That's fraud against the taxpayer. His Starlink system is failing and was under attack recently
Look at what he did to our government!!! He's not an elected official and should never been allowed to head DOGE
He's a waste of space and should go back to South Africa
This is an interesting and valid idea. Democrats do have a history of engineering who they want over who the voters would have chosen.
Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity, OpenAI, Starlink, Boring Company. etc. etc.
He is the reason we have mass produced electric cars for sale. He showed it could work and he proved people would buy them.
No. He just founded the company and learned rocket science on his own. What a moron.
SpaceX is a government contractor. They pay him to put satellites into orbit because he does it more efficiently and less expensively than they can do it themselves.
Out of curiosity, when the government hires a contractor to build a highway, is that also "fraud against the taxpayer"? How about when a local restaurant caters lunch for a govt meeting? More fraud? How about when a landlord provides subsidized housing that the government pays for?
I'm curious how this works.
You can get internet service on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. Name an ISP that hasn't been attacked recently.
Make a lot of noise about how inefficient it is and how nobody is watching where the money goes? If only we had more Somali daycares.
I hate to break this to you but the overwhelming majority of people running government things are not elected officials. Scott Bessent has never been elected to anything, neither was Janet Yellen before him, Steve Mnuchin before her or Tim Geithner before him. I think it's Article II.
Barack Obama was famous for appointing "Czars", including people like Paul Volcker, John Brennan, Gary Sizemore and many others without any congressional oversight whatsoever.
He is the most pivotal American citizen of the 21st century so far. You're just upset because he's an apostate from the Church of Liberal Politics.
About a week ago Musk retweeted a blatantly white supremacist post. And its not the first time. There used to be a day when prominent people who openly advocated racist ideas were shunned out of public existence. I guess if you're the richest man in the world people just have to suck it up and accept your delusional anti-social expressions.
I don't like him because he's a phony. It doesn't matter what his politics are. He's also a big time bigot
I didn't say he was a nice guy. Also, I just want to point out here that you're literally living up to the whole "mean tweet" accusations.
Not this prominent. And happily, I think the days of canceling people over liberal outrage are fading away.
Or... here's a thought... people can let you have your own opinions, not agree with them, and get on with their lives.
Y'know you could unfollow him. It's allowed.
Nothing matters to you, you have made that clear here dozens of times.
Tweets don't matter to me, no. I frankly don't understand people to whom they do matter.
I'm not suggesting you should "like him".
I am saying that pretending he hasn't achieved anything is utterly silly, and Omar calling him "dumb" is in itself the most moronic thing she's ever said.
I'm still waiting for my DOGE check.
Me too. And it is doubtful that any but the super rich will ever see any part of Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'. And Trump will likely deny he ever said anything about such a thing.
Trump’s silver lining to a potential SCOTUS loss to his illegal tariffs is that he can say, “oh well, forget about that check!”
Yep! Or.... his favorite excuse....." I didn't say that"
but he did. Even Mr G MAGA extradanaire has been harping about that check and says I can't have mine
I must have missed that Trump comment. And he keeps promising he will make good on his promise, but, we all know what a huge liar Trump is. I never thought for one millisecond that greedy Trump would let go of a Nickle for anyone else.
Why are we even discussing this person?
Like the saying goes, Monkey see monkey do. At least Musk didn't lie to get a Nobel Peace Prize.......yet.