--- title: Ilhan Omar Trolls Trump With Pictures From Africa Visit description: The Congresswoman posted photos of herself and Nancy Pelosi in Ghana, in response to Trump's racist Tweets earlier this month canonical: https://time.com/5642310/ilhan-omar-she-went-back-with-me/ author: Amy Gunia article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-02T06:54:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:55:46.991Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ilhan Omar Trolls Trump With Pictures From Africa Visit og:description: The Congresswoman posted photos of herself and Nancy Pelosi in Ghana og:url: https://time.com/5642310/ilhan-omar-she-went-back-with-me/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt714e5c9e7168c5fe/698a00c509208f081b41552a/ilhan-omar-ghana.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3229 og:image:height: 1816 og:image:alt: ilhan-omar-ghana og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ilhan Omar Trolls Trump With Pictures From Africa Visit twitter:description: The Congresswoman posted photos of herself and Nancy Pelosi in Ghana twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt714e5c9e7168c5fe/698a00c509208f081b41552a/ilhan-omar-ghana.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'She Went Back With Me.' 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Trump’s tweets drew sharp rebukes from Democrats, who derided his remarks as racist_ by [Amy Gunia](https://time.com/author/amy-gunia/) ## Amy Gunia Gunia was a reporter for TIME based in Hong Kong. Aug 2, 2019 6:54 AM UTC Nancy Pelosi 'Moved' by Visit to Historic Slave Sites by [Amy Gunia](https://time.com/author/amy-gunia/) ## Amy Gunia Gunia was a reporter for TIME based in Hong Kong. Aug 2, 2019 6:54 AM UTC Congresswoman Ilhan Omar responded Thursday to “send her back” chants that erupted at one of President Donald Trump’s rallies by posting a photo of herself and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a visit to Africa. “They said ‘send her back’ but Speaker \[Pelosi\] didn’t just make arrangement to send me back, she went back with me,” Omar wrote in her Instagram and Twitter posts. The pair are visiting Ghana as part of a Congressional trip to the African continent this week to commemorate the American slave trade’s 400th anniversary. > [](https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1157005661311557633) Last month, the President sparked outrage by firing off a [series of racist Tweets](https://time.com/5627020/freshmen-congresswomen-issue-rebuke-to-trumps-tweets/) in which he told four Congresswomen of color to “[go back](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381395078000643?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw)” to “the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” He added that he was sure that Speaker Nancy Pelosi “would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!” The Congresswomen he attacked — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Illhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley — are all American citizens. Omar was born in Somalia, but moved to the U.S. with her family when she was a child to flee the country’s civil war. The three other women were born in the U.S. Trump’s comments have inflamed racial tensions. Just days after his tweets, a crowd at a Trump rally in North Carolina chanted “[send her back!”](https://time.com/5629075/donald-trump-send-them-back/) when Omar was mentioned. Trump insisted that his Tweets about the Congresswomen were [not racist](https://time.com/5627452/trump-insists-congresswomen-tweets-not-racist/), but the House voted to [officially condemn](https://time.com/5628014/trump-racist-tweets-republicans/) his remarks. The condemnation doesn’t seem to have deterred Trump, who drew further ire this week for [Tweets](https://time.com/5638296/trump-baltimore-epa/) denigrating the city of Baltimore. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5642310/ilhan-omar-she-went-back-with-me/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5642310/ilhan-omar-she-went-back-with-me/"},"headline":"'She Went Back With Me.' 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