Omar’s Discussion of “World War Eleven” Provokes Ridicule, No Word on Immigration Fraud Probe

Far-left Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is again the subject of ridicule on social media, this time for a viral video of remarks in which she mentioned World War Eleven, apparently unaware of something called Roman numerals.

Omar mentioned “World War Eleven” during her news conference in March last year to denounce President Trump for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan Tren de Aragua terror gang members. Omar was pushing her “Neighbors Not Enemies Act,” which would replace the AEA.

Question is, did Omar simply forget that World War II means World War Two, or did she never know and incorrectly answer questions about it on her citizenship? That question aside, federal immigration authorities have not, it appears, finished investigating accusations that Omar committed immigration fraud.

Omar’s most recent troubles include the revelation that her husband ran a fake winery and that she amended her financial disclosure because of an “accounting error.”

The Presser

Announcing her bid to repeal the Alien Enemies Act, immigrant Omar, with far-left Democrat and immigrant Senator Maize Hirono of Hawaii at her side, said the Founders of the Republic who passed the AEA were “un-American.”

“It is hard to imagine anything more un-American than that,” the beturbaned refugee said, calling Trump’s effort to control the borders and deport illegals a “threat to immigrants.” For “America is too great to fall prey to Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.”

Restoring “basic humanity” to immigration policy means repealing the Alien Enemies Act, which is, she said, “xenophobic.”

On X, the Somali-born radical — who married her brother to perpetrate immigration and student-loan fraud — claimed that the act is “a draconian law that has no place in America,” and repeated her call to repeal it after Trump invoked it last week.

In fact, the law does have a place in America. President John Adams, a real American, signed it. Other presidents who invoked the act — all native-born Americans — are James Madison, during the War of 1812; Woodrow Wilson, during World War I; and Franklin Roosevelt, during World War II. 

All that provides the context for Omar’s remarks about America’s participation in the 11th world war, which flew under the radar.

“The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War Eleven,” the Somali refugee said.

Ridicule ensued.

The Response

“Consider the astronomical levels of stupidity on display here,” conservative podcaster Matt Walsh said:

Ilhan Omar doesn’t know how to read Roman numerals AND she thinks there have been 11 world wars. Either one of those would be reasonable justification to remove her from office and send her back to Somalia. But both? My God.

Continued Walsh:

Our founding fathers never even considered the possibility that illiterate third world women would one day be shipped into this country and then elected to congress. We are discovering a method of national suicide that never entered the minds of the founders.

Wrote commentator Ed Morrissey: “Is this for real. I thought it might be AI.”

“I can’t believe this dummy is in Congress,” Libs of TikTok wrote:

DEPORT this Somali already

Omar’s tenuous grasp of modern history raises the question of how poorly she performed on her citizenship test, which included multiple questions about the world wars and uses Roman numerals.

Among them are who was president during World War I and World War II, which countries the United States fought during World War II, and the war in which President Dwight Eisenhower was involved.

Fraud Probe

But Omar, who has openly bragged about being a Somali agent of influence, has bigger problems than learning Roman numerals. President Trump and Border Czar Tom Homan accuse the anti-American leftist of immigration fraud. If proven, immigration authorities could strip her of her citizenship and deport her.

Trump has repeatedly attacked Omar because she married her brother to commit immigration and student-loan fraud. Indeed, in 2019, Judicial Watch filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee about that fraud.

In December, Homan told Newsmax that a fraud investigator who reviewed Omar’s file confirmed that “there was immigration fraud involved.” The “statute of limitations became the issue in the last four years when this was first brought up” in 2020 because of the Biden administration, Homan continued:

[We’re] pulling the records, [we’re] pulling the files. We’re looking at it. But this fraud investigator who I know personally, one of the best fraud investigators in HSI (Homeland Security Investigations), said there’s no doubt. He reviewed the file. So I’m running that down this week … and we’ll see.

That was almost six months ago.

Mid-April, The Wall Street Journal disclosed that Omar amended her financial disclosure that had put her assets as high as $30 million. Omar amended the disclosure, the Journal reported, to reflect her and her husband’s assets at $18,004 to $95,000.

She amended the filing because of an inquiry by the Office of Congressional Conduct, to which her attorney responded by letter.

“Omar’s amended filing shows between $102,503 and $1,005,200 in 2024 income from the assets she and her husband own,” the Journal disclosed:

Documentation attached to the lawyer’s letter shows $213,200 in distributions to her husband from his venture-capital management firm in 2024 and $3,000 from the winery.

A 2025 email between Omar’s husband and his accountant states the venture capital management firm is valued at $7.9 million and the winery at $1.5 million. He owns roughly a third of both businesses, according to tax documents included with the lawyer’s letter.

The new disclosure shows Omar, 43 years old, has $15,001 to $50,000 in student debt and $15,001 to $50,000 in credit-card debt.

That winery, by the way, was fake.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky said Omar might have committed a felony. He did not believe such an egregious error was possible.

As for Omar’s misapprehension about 11 world wars, years ago, on learning that a young, illiterate TV reporter made the same mistake, the late conservative journalist M. Stanton Evans replied thusly: “You’d think after 35 Super Bowls we’d know our Roman numerals.”