Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) seems to believe the U.S. is turning into “one of the worst countries.”
Omar criticized the Trump administration in an interview last week over the deployment of the U.S. military to the streets of Los Angeles amid protests. This occurred the same week as the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington, D.C. As The Hill pointed out, the parade fell on the same day as President Donald Trump’s birthday.
“To be coming out of our country, I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don’t even remember ever witnessing anything like that,” Omar said. “To have democracy, a beacon of hope for the world to now be turned into one of the, you know, one of the worst countries where the military are in our streets without any regard for people’s constitutional rights, while our president’s spending millions of dollars prompting himself up like a failed dictator with a military parade.”
The lawmaker added: “It is really shocking and it should be a wake-up call for all Americans to say, ‘This is not the country we were born and this is not the country we believe in, this is not the country our Founding Fathers imagined, and this is not the country that is supported by our Constitution, our ideals, our values,’ and we should all collectively be out in the streets rejecting what is taking place this week.”
