President Donald Trump criticized Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Thursday, highlighting her Somali heritage and questioning her citizenship, after the Democrat called conservative activist Charlie Kirk a “stochastic terrorist” and sparked a Republican onslaught against him.

“Ilhan Omar’s country, Somalia, is plagued by lack of central government control, persistent poverty, hunger, terrorism, piracy, decades of civil war, corruption, and widespread violence. 70% of the population lives in extreme poverty and faces food insecurity,” Trump said via his official Truth Social account.

The president added that Omar tells them “how to run America” and questioned, without official confirmation, aspects of her marriage, noting, “Wasn’t she the one who married her brother to get citizenship?”

What did Ilhan Omar say?

The Minnesota Democrat launched into a discussion about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, mocking the notion that his primary mission was to have a civil debate about politics.

“A lot of people are talking about him [Kirk] just because they want a civil debate,” Omar said disdainfully. “These people are full of s— and it’s important that we denounce them while we feel anger and sadness.”

Omar complained that the TurningPoint USA founder downplayed George Floyd and opposed Juneteenth.

“There’s nothing more fucked up than pretending that her words and actions haven’t been on the record and existed for the last decade or so,” he added, further accusing Kirk of posting “hateful rhetoric” on social media.

Given the echo of her words, in a close vote in Congress, with 214 votes in favor and 2,013 against, on Wednesday the Lower House shelved Republican Nancy Mace’s attempt to censure Omar and remove her seat on two congressional committees: Education and Workforce.

In response, Omar posted on her X account that the congressmen who voted against did not unite to “protect” her,but that they did so out of respect for “the First Amendment and sanity,” adding that “This country stands for freedom and what’s happening is unacceptable.”

Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1982 but fled to a refugee camp in Kenya at the age of four amid a civil war in her country. In 1995 she arrived in the United States, became a naturalized citizen in 2000 and after graduating with a degree in political science in 2011, she made the leap to political life and in 2016 became the first Somali-American and Muslim woman elected to Congress.