President Donald Trump on Thursday called on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to resign from Congress after citing a Fox News Digital report that claimed her legal name differs from the one she has publicly used.
He also urged House Speaker Mike Johnson to consider her congressional seat vacant. In a second statement, the office referenced Omar’s recent interview on MS NOW, where she again rejected longstanding allegations that she married her brother for immigration purposes.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump cited the new report and reiterated that Omar had been sworn into Congress under a “fake name” and asserted that she should “immediately resign. Fox News Digital report cited unnamed sources, including a law enforcement source, who alleged that Omar’s legal name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi rather than Ilhan Abdullahi Omar. Fox News also cited a filing by US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, which referred to the congresswoman as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.
Omar described the accusations as “baseless” and “disgusting, according to Fox News. During the interview, when asked whether she had married her brother, she responded, “Not to my knowledge,” which her office later characterized as sarcasm.
