Trump Rally Crowd Chants "Send Her Back" at Rep. Ilhan Omar After Trump's Racist Attack Tweets

At a re-election campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina on July 17, 2019, the crowd breaks into a sustained "send her back" chant targeting Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota after Trump repeats his earlier social media attacks on the four congresswomen of color known as the Squad. Omar, born in Somalia, became a U.S. citizen in 2000. Trump stands silent at the podium for 13 seconds as the chant rings through the arena before resuming his remarks. The scene — a sitting president allowing a crowd to demand the removal of a sitting congresswoman because of her national origin — draws bipartisan condemnation. Republican House Minority Whip Steve Scalise and others criticize the chant. Trump later claims he tried to stop the chant, which video does not support. The chant is a direct echo of Trump's July 14 tweets telling four women of color to "go back" to the countries they came from, three of whom were born in the United States.