Trump rally crowd chants send her back about Rep. Ilhan Omar as Trump pauses for 13 seconds

At a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina on July 17, 2019, President Trump attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) — a Somali-born U.S. citizen and congresswoman — by name, prompting the crowd to chant "Send her back!" for 13 seconds. Video reviewed by PolitiFact shows Trump does not interrupt the chant and pauses to let it grow, contradicting his later claim that he "tried to stop it quickly." Trump had spent several minutes attacking Omar specifically, accusing her of holding radical views and making statements he characterized as anti-American. The chant echoes Trump's July 14 tweets telling four congresswomen of color to "go back" to their countries. The Greenville mayor, Allen Thomas, denounces the chant: "The 'send her back' chant heard last night at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel is not reflective of who we are as a city." Omar, who spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to the United States, calls the rally "a blatant Islamophobic attack." FBI reporting later documents that threats against members of the Squad spike following the tweets and rallies.