{"id":2523894,"date":"2025-12-22T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/omar-fateh-hits-back-at-vances-mayor-of-mogadishu-americafest-jab\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:26:31","slug":"omar-fateh-hits-back-at-vances-mayor-of-mogadishu-americafest-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/omar-fateh-hits-back-at-vances-mayor-of-mogadishu-americafest-jab\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Fateh hits back at Vance&#8217;s &#8216;mayor of Mogadishu&#8217; AmericaFest jab"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fomar-fateh-hits-back-at-vances-mayor-of-mogadishu-americafest-jab%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2523894&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>At Turning Point USA&#8217;s AmericaFest, Republican JD Vance mocked Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh, quipping that Fateh was Ilhan Omar&#8217;s &#8220;candidate for mayor of Mogadishu &#8211; I mean Minneapolis.&#8221; Fateh, who is ethnically Somali but was born in Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brutal-watch-gov-desantis-treat-a-cnn-reporter-exactly-the-way-she-deserved-to-be-treated\/\" title=\"BRUTAL: Watch Gov. DeSantis Treat a CNN \u2018Reporter\u2019 Exactly the Way She Deserved to Be Treated\">fired back<\/a> on X, noting his father came to the U.S. on a scholarship, earned a master&#8217;s in engineering, and that Fateh proudly represents Minneapolis in the Minnesota Senate.Fateh also lost November&#8217;s Minneapolis mayoral race to incumbent Jacob Frey after receiving Rep. Ilhan Omar&#8217;s endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Vance&#8217;s remark drew public criticism from figures including Sen. Ruben Gallego and journalist Mehdi Hasan.The exchange comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/push-to-rubber-stamp-elections-invites-harassment-of-officials\/\" title=\"Push To Rubber-Stamp Elections Invites Harassment Of Officials\">amid broader tensions<\/a> in Minnesota over <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >alleged welfare fraud<\/a> in the Somali community and recent anti\u2011Somali comments by former President Donald Trump.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Omar Fateh hits back at Vance&rsquo;s &lsquo;mayor of Mogadishu&rsquo; AmericaFest jab<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2450457\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/minneapolis\/\">Minneapolis<\/a> mayoral candidate Omar Fateh slammed Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\">JD Vance <\/a>on Sunday after he joked at Turning Point USA&rsquo;s AmericaFest that Fateh was running for &ldquo;mayor of Mogadishu.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fateh is ethnically Somalian but was born in the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3919999\/trump-allies-turned-enemies-continue-fight-second-term\/\">Trump allies-turned-enemies who continue to fight him in second term<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4342594\/trump-taps-jeff-landry-as-greenland-special-envoy\/\">Trump taps Jeff Landry as Greenland special envoy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4342588\/colorado-to-appeal-trump-denial-disaster-relief\/\">Colorado to appeal Trump&#8217;s &#8216;malicious&#8217; denial of disaster relief funds for wildfires and flooding<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Nice try <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance\">@JDVance<\/a>,&rdquo; Fateh <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OmarFatehMN\/status\/2002888124775760319?s=20\">wrote on X<\/a>. &ldquo;My father came to America on a scholarship in the early 60&rsquo;s, during the civil rights era, and earned a masters in engineering. I was born in DC and proud to represent MPLS in the MN Senate. Looks like you took time away from the couch to try out comedy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Minnesota state senator lost to incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey in November&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-de-blasio-establishes-racial-justice-commission-stocked-with-aides-and-allies\/\" title=\"Bill De Blasio Establishes \u2018Racial Justice\u2019 Commission Stocked With Aides And Allies\">mayoral election<\/a> after receiving Rep. Ilhan Omar&rsquo;s (D-MN) endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Vance hit out at Fateh and Omar as he was criticizing Democrats for the quality of their candidates.<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OmarFatehMN\/status\/2002888124775760319\/photo\/1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They are not sending their best,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Omar Fateh was Ilhan Omar&rsquo;s candidate for mayor of Mogadishu &mdash; I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JD Vance: &#8220;They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar&#8217;s candidate for mayor of Mogadishu&ndash; I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there.&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mVR62OluT9\">pic.twitter.com\/mVR62OluT9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/2002823021069840532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Others also readily slammed Vance for his comments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Wow so authentic,&rdquo; Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RubenGallego\/status\/2002913961398935748?s=20\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He has the humor and charisma and comic timing of a wooden pillar. Say what you want about Trump but at least he knows how to deliver his burns and putdowns,&rdquo; Mehdi Hasan, the CEO of left-leaning news outlet Zeteo, also <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mehdirhasan\/status\/2002901906788929724?s=20\">wrote on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/3988086\/minnesota-attorney-general-memo-debate-somali-fraud\/\">INTERNAL MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL MEMO SETTLES DEBATE ON SOMALI FRAUD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vance&rsquo;s comments come as controversy swirls around the Somali community in Minnesota over widespread alleged welfare fraud by the ethnic group in the state. President Donald Trump said earlier this month that he didn&rsquo;t want Somalis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They contribute nothing. I don&rsquo;t want them in our country,&rdquo; Trump told reporters. &ldquo;We can go one way or the other, and we&rsquo;re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar Fateh rebukes JD Vance Mogadishu jab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2523895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-collage-ht1oumtle-1766414090245-e1766415132229.jpg?1766396143&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[69012,50602,37326,59141,15469],"class_list":["post-2523894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-americafest","tag-islamophobia-2","tag-minnesota-politics","tag-omar-fateh","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-collage-ht1oumtle-1766414090245-e1766415132229.jpg?1766396143&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523898,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523894\/revisions\/2523898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}