‘Good night, brother. Let’s go to bed’: Trump went to Florida to talk about Social Security, then spent part of the speech mocking Ilhan Omar

President Donald Trump held a rally in Florida, where he launched into a lengthy rant about Rep. Ilhan Omar, using a mocking accent to imitate the Minnesota Democrat. The rally came just hours after Trump had spoken about Social Security in the state, making the shift in tone all the more noticeable.

According to The Independent, Trump’s impression of Omar drew jeers from the crowd, and it was not the first time he had targeted the progressive Democratic congresswoman. He had also written about her on social media in November 2025, claiming that Omar had married her brother, a claim that has been circulating since 2016, when Omar became the first Somali American elected to the Minnesota state House of Representatives.

That claim has been debunked by fact-checking site Snopes, which stated there was no evidence to support it. Omar’s family fled the Somali civil war and moved to the U.S. in 1995 after spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp. Omar was raised by her father and grandfather after her mother passed away.

The debunked claim about Omar’s marriage has a long and well-documented history

In 2018, Omar showed a reporter from the Minneapolis Star Tribune documents from her family’s entry into the U.S. after fleeing the civil war. The documents listed her father and showed Omar as the youngest of seven children. There was no one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi listed in those documents, directly contradicting the claim that had been spread online.

Omar and her siblings all arrived in the U.S. with refugee status, and Omar was a minor when she became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Under U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy, immigrants can apply for permanent residency if they are siblings of a U.S. citizen or married to one, meaning any sibling of Omar’s would not have needed to marry her to gain citizenship. 

Omar denied the rumor back in 2016, calling the marriage “a difficult part of my personal history that I did not consider relevant in the context of a political campaign.” She explained that she and Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her children and her first love, applied for a marriage license in 2002 but never finalized the application. They decided to end their relationship in their faith tradition after reaching an impasse in 2008.

Omar then entered into a legal marriage with British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009. That relationship ended in 2011, and they divorced in their faith tradition. In 2017, Omar formally petitioned for a legal divorce from Elmi, and in 2018 she legally married Hirsi. The two later divorced legally in 2019, according to Snopes.

There is no credible evidence that Elmi and Omar were siblings in a fraudulent marriage, and no verified documentation has ever surfaced to support that version of events. Trump has faced scrutiny for making explosive remarks at journalists on air in other recent controversies as well. The rumor was also pushed in 2019 by blogger Scott Johnson of Powerline, who provided no evidence to support the claim. 

Trump is therefore not the first person to spread this misinformation, but his Florida rally comments represent the latest and most high-profile instance of it being repeated without basis. His administration has also been under pressure on other fronts, including unprecedented attacks on the Federal Reserve chair that have rattled Washington in recent weeks.

Omar has been targeted by numerous unfounded rumors about her religion and family ever since she became a public figure. Despite repeated debunking by fact-checkers and her own detailed public statements, the same claims continue to resurface in political settings. The Florida rally was a clear example of how misinformation, once in circulation, can keep coming back, especially when amplified by high-profile political figures.