Phil Mickelson wants Ilhan Omar to be sent back | Golf News

Phil Mickelson has called for congresswoman Ilhan Omar to be ‘sent back to Somalia’ in response to a clip in which the Representative criticized Charlie Kirk’s views. Kirk, a right-wing activist who was recognized for his often polarizing beliefs, was fatally shot earlier this month.

In the video in query, Omar is requested by a GWN host about why she shared a video that called Kirk “Dr Frankenstein” and said his “monster shot him through the neck”. A funeral and memorial service for Kirk takes place on Sunday night time, with President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance to attend. You can comply with along live right here.

Omar goes on to say: “What I find jarring is that there’s so many people willing to excuse the most reprehensible things that he said, that they agree with that, that they’re willing to have monuments for him, that they wanna create a day to honor him and that they want to produce resolutions in the house of congress, honoring his life and legacy.”

She explained that it’s ‘one factor to care about his life’ as there have been ‘so many people’ who cherished him, including his youngsters and his spouse. However, the politician said that she wouldn’t be ‘judged’ for “not wanting to honor any legacy this man has left behind”.

Omar added that his legacy ought to be “in the dust bin of history and we should hopefully move on and forget the hate that he spewed every single day.”

LIV Golf star Mickelson reposted the clip on X and added the message: “Ilhan spews hate every time she opens her mouth, she came here fraudulently and will hopefully be sent back to Somalia soon.”

Representative Omar, who represents Minnesota’s fifth Congressional District, was born in Somalia. Her household fled the nation’s civil conflict when she was eight, and they then spent 4 years in a refugee camp in Kenya before arriving in the US in the 90s. There is no indication that she entered the nation illegally.

Mickelson has shared a appreciable quantity of posts in help of Kirk following his death last week. In one, he wrote: “The assassination of Charlie Kirk is bringing out some of the best in humanity and it’s also exposing some of the worst.”

In another, Mickelson said: “I never met Charlie Kirk but I am gutted by this atrocity. Open debate is healthy and essential. Free speech is a constitutional right. Violence for disagreeing with someone is sick, deranged, and creates a greater division that becomes harder to overcome.”

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Kirk, who was killed on September tenth while talking at an event at a Utah faculty, was a distinguished right-wing activist and Trump ally. He co-founded Turning Point USA, a conservative group, and was recognized for his controversial views on topics like race, gender, abortion, and religion.

In 2020, he called George Floyd, a black man whose homicide at the arms of a police officer led to nationwide protests, a “scumbag”. He has told girls to “reject feminism” and “submit to your husband”, and said there ought to be a “Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor”.

In 2023 at an event organized by the non secular arm of Turning Point USA, Kirk mentioned gun control, saying: “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”