{"id":43650,"date":"2025-06-17T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43650"},"modified":"2025-06-18T01:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:31:47","slug":"omar-us-being-turned-into-one-of-the-worst-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43650","title":{"rendered":"Omar: US being turned into \u2018one of the worst countries\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/ilhan-omar\/\"><u>Ilhan Omar\u2002<\/u><\/a>(D-Minn.) criticized the Trump administration\u2019s use of the military, saying the U.S. is turning into \u201cone of the worst countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2025\/6\/13\/ilhan_omar_trump_ice_authoritarianism\"><u>In an interview<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;late last week, Omar noted the deployment of U.S. troops to quell protests in Los Angeles took place in the same week that the administration held the military parade, which celebrated 250 years of the U.S. Army\u2019s existence, and which happened to fall on President Trump\u2019s birthday and Flag Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cCan you imagine that image that is going to be coming out of our country? I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don\u2019t even remember ever witnessing anything like that,\u201d Omar said, referring to her early childhood in Somalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cTo have a 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\u2019s constitutional rights, while our president\u2019s spending millions of dollars propping himself up like a failed dictator with a military parade \u2014 it is really shocking,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Omar said that image should inspire Americans to speak out publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIt should be a wake-up call for all Americans to say, \u2018This is not the country we were born in. It\u2019s 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.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAnd we should all collectively be out in the streets, rejecting what is taking place this week,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5356134-omar-criticizes-trump-military-parade\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.&nbsp;Ilhan Omar\u2002(D-Minn.) criticized the Trump administration\u2019s use of the military, saying the U.S. is turning into \u201cone of the worst countries.\u201d In an interview&nbsp;late last week, Omar noted the deployment of U.S. troops to quell protests in Los Angeles took place in the same week that the administration held the military parade, which celebrated 250 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2607,33647,1156,1196,1230],"class_list":["post-43650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-democratic","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-military","tag-minnesota","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43652,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650\/revisions\/43652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}