Monday, December 08, 2025

Somali Americans Troll Trump And Israel!

Am Chai Somalia.

Somalis were promised land in the Middle West.

Minnesomali is the Somali State.

Love how the president’s attack on Somali Americans became a rally cry for Somali unity against him and the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.

President Donald J. Trump and Israel wanted to punch down on immigrants. Looks like the Somalis are punching back.

Last week in a presser, Trump went after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Gov. Tim Walz.

The president called Somali Americans and Somali immigrants garbage. It won praise from the far right agitators and scorn from the community. Some of the Somali Americans who voted for Trump due to former president Joe Biden's hawkish stance on Israel felt betrayed.

“We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. Her friends are garbage,” Trump told the meeting.

“ When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country.”

The remarks have drawn widespread condemnation from community leaders, Democratic lawmakers and civil rights organizations.

Y'all voted for this.

Anyway, Somali Americans are hitting back at Trump and Israel for exploiting culture wars to protect the status quo.

Minnesota state Senator Omar Fateh described the president’s comments as both “hurtful” and “disgraceful”.

“It was flat out wrong, calling not only our congresswoman garbage but calling the entire community garbage, saying they’re good for nothing,” Fateh told Al Jazeera.

“It is a community that has been resilient, that has produced so much. We are teachers and doctors and lawyers and even politicians taking part in every part of Minnesota’s economy and the nation’s economy.”

Fateh, who ran a campaign for city mayor this year, accused Trump of engaging in “political theater” to energize his base ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Yet despite the fear, a defiant response has emerged on social media platforms, particularly TikTok and X.

Some users have created AI-generated images that insert Somalis into iconic images from U.S. history, as a humorous way of illustrating their deep roots in the country.

Others have parodied Zionist claims to Palestine by joking that Minnesota was promised to them 3,000 years ago, a pointed reference to the logic used to justify Palestinian dispossession.

Mohammed Eid, a legal analyst at the Minnesota judiciary who moved to the U.S. 11 years ago, expressed pride in the community’s response to the president’s attacks.

The promise of Somalis.

“I’m proud that our community stood up. Trump doesn’t have more rights than we do here. We’re all Americans. In fact, his wife, like many other people who move here, is also an immigrant,” Eid said.

“Many of these jokes Somalis are making online are showing how ridiculous some of the debates in our society are, from having [an] anti-immigration movement in a land where the natives were genocided to the situation in Gaza and Palestine.”

For Faisal Roble, a Somali American and former principal planner for the city of Los Angeles, the social media satire illustrated something distinctly American: an embrace of the First Amendment right to free speech.

“Young Somalis have hybrid identities and have utilized the American aspect of it to defend themselves, to build alliances, to mock people who are targeting and have shown skill and bravery despite the attacks,” Roble said.

“Somalis are a very visible community, who carry their culture with them and practice what America preaches. They live their lives and their values and participate.”

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