Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar lobbed scathing personal attacks against Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
In an interview with the New York Times promoting her autobiography, This Is What America Looks Like, Omar said she would never speak to the cable news host even if invited, describing him as “hateful.”
“I have no interest in talking to someone as hateful as Tucker,” Omar said. “Tucker is someone who, I believe, everything he has had in life was given to him. He has a clear resentment for people who start from nothing and have achieved success that he probably wanted for himself and hasn’t been able to have.”
Carlson criticized Omar earlier this summer after she advocated “dismantling” the U.S. economy and political system. “If anyone should love America, it’s Ilhan Omar,” Carlson said. “This country rescued her from a squalid Kenyan refugee camp and made her a national figure. Quite an ascent. But Ilhan Omar is not grateful. She hates us for it.”
In 2019, Carlson called Omar “a symbol of America’s failed immigration system” after she called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and decriminalization of illegal immigration. “She demands open borders, the unlimited arrival of anyone who wants to come to America whether they have anything to contribute or not and, by the way, you get to pay for it. And if you don’t want to, you are a bigot,” Carlson said.
