It appears that President Donald Trump has chosen a minority to fixate on (in a racist way) this month, probably in part to keep everyone distracted from his flopping approval numbers. He’s recently closed in on Minnesota’s robust Somali community, calling them “garbage” and deploying ICE agents to Minneapolis to apprehend a handful of Somali men who he deems criminals. As a result, CNN reports, hate mail has been pouring into inboxes at mosques and other majority-Somali-American spaces.
Leaders in Minnesota’s Somali community responded swiftly; in addition to protesting and alerting each other of ICE activity, they also banded together to troll conservatives online — and they’ve been doing so in the most hilarious way possible. Pulling from MAGA’s playbook, which relies heavily on colonial imagery and reimagining history to benefit their agenda, some joked that Somalis were actually the first ever settlers of Minnesota.
One AI video on TikTok shows a group of Somalis finding out that Minnesota was promised to them in an ancient scripture (before they get there and realize it’s a little too cold for them).
A post on X declared that one of the founding fathers was actually a Somali man, who signed the Declaration of Independence and included a clause that awarded Minnesota to Somalis.
