US President Donald Trump has slammed two members of Congress who were attacked during his State of the Union address.
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Published February 26, 2026
President Donald Trump said Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib should be “sent back from where they came from” after they shouted protests during the State of the Union address.
During President Trump’s speech on Tuesday, Tlaib, who is Palestinian-American, and Omar, who is Somali-American, praised the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and immigration enforcement and criticized the president.
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President Trump wrote on his platform Truth Social late Wednesday that the two Muslim congressmen acted like “crooked and corrupt politicians” who should be expelled from the United States.
“As I watched last night’s very elegant State of the Union address, low-IQ Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib screaming uncontrollably at such an important and beautiful event, they look like crazy people, LUNATICS, deranged, sickly, swollen, bloodshot-eyed, and frankly deserving of institutionalization,” Trump wrote.
“If people can behave like that, and we know that they are crooked and corrupt politicians who are very bad for our country, we should send them back from where they came from as soon as possible,” Trump said.
“They can only harm the United States of America and do nothing to help it,” he added.
Omar and Tlaib were among a handful of Democrats who protested during Trump’s nearly two-hour speech on Tuesday.
When President Trump told lawmakers during a speech that the U.S. should abolish “sanctuary cities,” which limit cooperation with federal authorities such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Omar and Tlaib shouted, “You’re killing Americans!”
“I said what I said. I had to remind you that the Trump administration is responsible for the murder of two of my constituents,” Omar later wrote on social media.
Omar represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, which covers the city of Minneapolis, where President Trump launched a sweeping crackdown on immigration last year.
In January, federal agents killed two Americans who were protesting immigration raids by ICE and Customs agents in Minnesota.
Omar is also a member of Minnesota’s Somali-American community, which has been the subject of repeated criticism from President Trump. The president previously said they too should “go back to where they belong.”
Tlaib, the first Palestinian woman in the U.S. Congress, later wrote on social media: “Now he’s in conflict because he can’t tolerate two Muslims (Muslim women) talking back and correcting each other. #PresidentMajnoun.”
Majnoon is an Arabic word that translates as insane or fanatical and possessed by evil spirits.
Trump’s Truth Social post named Tlaib and Omar, but did not mention Democratic Congresswoman Sarah McBride, who NBC reported had also shouted in protest during the president’s speech.
Trump also did not mention the racist video of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama that Trump recently shared on social media, nor did he mention Democratic Congressman Al Green, who was removed from the House floor during Trump’s speech for holding a sign that read “Black People Are Not Apes.”
