When a sitting U.S. Congresswoman swears loyalty to a foreign country—on camera—and then gets called out for it, you’d think the media would blow the lid off. But when it’s a Democrat, and the country in question is Somalia, suddenly it’s crickets. Not a single CNN panel, not a peep from The New York Times. But you can bet your last dollar if a Republican so much as sneezed near a Russian flag, they’d be running 24/7 impeachment specials.
This week, the spotlight’s back on foreign-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Democrat from Minnesota who’s made a career out of pretending to represent American interests while openly pandering to Somalia. A video from January 2024 has resurfaced, and it’s not a good look—unless you’re rooting for Mogadishu to run foreign policy in D.C.
In the clip, Omar addresses a Somali crowd in Minnesota and says, “The U.S. government will do what we ask it to do … While I am in Congress, no one will take Somalia’s sea, and the U.S. government won’t support others to rob us.”
Excuse me? “Do what we ask it to do”? “Us,” as in Somalia? This is a sitting member of Congress whose paycheck comes from American taxpayers, not the Somali Ministry of Fisheries.
Elon Musk, never one to shy away from a truth bomb, saw the video and called it what it is: “This sounds like treason,” he posted on X.
This sounds like treason https://t.co/u8vAq6MMyN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2025
And he’s right. Because when an elected official takes an oath to the Constitution but then uses her office to protect the interests of a foreign nation, that’s not just bad judgment—it’s betrayal.
But it gets better. After the clip started making rounds again—thanks in part to Joe Rogan sharing it—Musk doubled down. When reminded that Omar once called him “one of the dumbest, luckiest people to exist on this Earth,” Musk fired back, “She is a traitor to America.”
Now, let’s pause for a second. Imagine if a Republican member of Congress stood on stage and said, “While I am in Congress, no one will take Russia’s oil.” The Democrats would have fainted from the sheer moral outrage. MSNBC would’ve launched a weeklong special called “Kremlin Caucus: The GOP’s Russian Love Affair.” But when Omar pledges to use her Congressional seat to protect Somalia’s maritime interests, the media acts like it’s just a quirky cultural moment.
The job of a U.S. Representative is to represent the United States of America. Not Somalia. Not Ukraine. Not China. If you want to be a Somali advocate, run for Somali Parliament. But you don’t get to take an oath to our Constitution, collect a U.S. government paycheck, and then use your seat to tell a foreign ethnic audience that America will do what “we”—meaning them—want it to do.
President Trump also called her out this week during a rally in Pennsylvania, where he reminded Americans about what real representation looks like. Omar’s comments, he said, “prove once again that some Democrats care more about foreign nations than they do about our own country.” He’s not wrong. The America Last crowd strikes again.
Let’s not forget, this isn’t Omar’s first rodeo with controversy. From downplaying 9/11 as “some people did something,” to her infamous anti-Israel rants, to being booted off the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year, she has a long history of treating the nation that gave her refuge like an afterthought.
The question now is: will Democrats do anything about this? Don’t hold your breath. The same party that let Joe Biden sell out American energy to China and let Hillary Clinton delete 33,000 emails without consequence isn’t exactly known for holding its own accountable.
This is bigger than Ilhan Omar. It’s about whether we still expect our elected leaders to serve Americans first. If you stand on U.S. soil, take the oath, and serve in Congress, your loyalty better be to that flag—no hyphens, no asterisks, no exceptions.
The voters are watching. And come next November, they’ll have a chance to decide if they want a government that puts America first—or a Congress that moonlights as a foreign embassy.