Somali Americans confront Trump's attacks by trolling MAGA

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Somali Americans confront Trump’s attacks by trolling MAGA
Turning hate into humor is becoming a strategy of resistance

By Sophia Tesfaye
Senior Writer
Published December 8, 2025 9:00AM (EST)


(Salon) With “rage bait” declared 2025’s word of the year, Somali Americans have fittingly responded to Donald Trump’s latest wave of xenophobic attacks not with fear but with something far more subversive: Humor. Online satire, memes, artificial intelligence-generated folklore and parody Bible verses have become the community’s preferred medium of resistance. The effect has been to turn the president’s inflammatory rhetoric into a mirror that reflects just how ridiculous and brittle MAGA’s nationalist claims really are.

Last week, Trump unleashed a withering tirade against Somali immigrants, targeting the large community in Minnesota, which has the largest Somali population of any state in America. The attacks were particularly vicious, even for him. From the Oval Office, flanked by Cabinet officials, the president declared that Somalia wasn’t “even a nation” and that Somali immigrants “contribute nothing.” Taking them, he argued, amounted to bringing “garbage” into the U.S. “These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country,” he said. “They have destroyed Minnesota.”

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Elsewhere on social media, the Somali American community turned to satire.

On X, users began posting elaborate folklore claiming that Somali sailors discovered Minnesota thousands of years ago, naming it “Minnadishu,” the twin of Mogadishu. Others created AI-generated images of Somali “founders” planting flags on the shores of Lake Superior. Some crafted faux-biblical verses like “Whoever harms Somalis will bring harm onto himself—Genesis 67:67” and “If you bless the Somali people, God will bless you—Genesis 12:8.” On TikTok, creators visited museum exhibits to claim, “This is one of the ships that our Somali ancestors used to migrate to explore the state of Minnesota 3,000 years ago.”

Many MAGA supporters responded by sincerely fact-checking the jokes, pointing out that Minnesota became a state in the 1800s or that the verses weren’t real, inadvertently feeding the humor. Trump’s close adviser Laura Loomer, a well known conspiracy theorist, also appeared to take the satire at face value.“WE ARE GOING TO LOSE THE MIDTERMS AND OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY WILL BE FLOODED WITH ISLAMIC PROPAGANDA!” she warned. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/08/somali-americans-confront-trumps-attacks-by-trolling-maga/

[cynical_idealist]

1. 67

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[haele]

2. Oh, gods- Tic Toc Brain Rot...

9 year old keeps saying that in that tone...