Ilhan Omar accuses Trump of having dementia and says president is 'obsessed' with her [View all]
Source: The Independent
Thursday 29 January 2026 06:00 EST
Ilhan Omar has suggested Donald Trump has dementia and is "obsessed" with her, after the president’s latest verbal attacks. Trump took repeated shots at the Minnesota congresswoman in a speech Tuesday, and hours later she was sprayed with a ‘foul smelling liquid’ at a townhall meeting at which she railed against ICE's actions in Minneapolis.
“The man that attacked me was specifically upset that Trump's order to deport Somalis was not yielding enough deportations of Somalis,” Omar told reporters Wednesday. “So he wanted to come and get the person he thought was protecting the Somalis. Well, we are protected by the Constitution.”
Omar went on to suggest the abuse and threats she receives have been fuelled by Trump's repeated public vilification of her. “I wouldn't be where I am at today, having to pay for security, having the government think about providing me security, if Donald Trump wasn't in office and if he wasn't so obsessed with me,” she said.
“It is ironic that just last night he was on stage moments before I was attacked, talking about me. And then when asked about my attack he said, 'I don't think about her'. “Does he not remember? Is he suffering from dementia? How do you spend 20, 30 minutes on stage, obsessing over me, by name, multiple times, and then moments later say, 'Ilhan Omar, I don't think about her'.”
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