President’s Holiday Post Ignites Outrage with Attacks on Walz and Omar While Vowing to Upend Lives of Millions of Immigrants
The warm flicker of candles on Thanksgiving tables across America on November 27, 2025, seemed a world away from the gilded glow of Mar-a-Lago, where President Donald Trump set aside his holiday meal to unleash a 500-word missive that would eclipse the season’s spirit of gratitude with a torrent of division and determination. Posted to Truth Social at 6:42 p.m., the message began with a nod to “our Great American Citizens and Patriots” but swiftly descended into a blistering assault on immigration and political adversaries, using a derogatory slur against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and reviving a long-debunked allegation that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother to enter the U.S. illegally. “The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing but complain about how badly she is treated,” Trump wrote of Omar, whom he accused of arriving through a fraudulent marriage—a claim probed and dismissed by Minnesota authorities in 2016 for lack of evidence. The post, which amassed 35 million views and 333,000 likes by midnight, capped a day of mourning for three National Guard troops killed in a D.C. ambush the previous day, its explosive reach—Trump’s most engaged X post ever—underscoring a holiday transformed into a battleground, where thanks for the table mingled with fears for the future in homes from Miami’s Little Haiti to Seattle’s Somali enclaves.
The message’s core, a vow to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” arrived as a thunderclap amid the fresh grief of the Farragut Square shooting, where Afghan immigrant Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly gunned down Sgt. Michael Harlan, 28, Staff Sgt. Elena Vasquez, 32, and Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, during their lunch break. Harlan and Vasquez succumbed immediately, Harlan from chest wounds and Vasquez from upper-body trauma, while Beckstrom fought for 28 hours before passing on Thanksgiving morning, her father Gary at her bedside in MedStar Washington Hospital Center. “She squeezed my hand this morning—fought like hell. But it’s a mortal wound; she’s at peace now,” Gary told reporters, his voice a father’s quiet devastation as Lisa, Sarah’s mother, prayed over speakerphone from Beckley with their other children. Lakanwal, a former U.S. contractor who entered via the Special Immigrant Visa in 2021, drove 3,000 miles from Bellingham, Washington, allegedly yelling “Allahu akbar” as he seized Beckstrom’s dropped sidearm; he was subdued by a major’s pocket-knife lunge and Sgt. Marcus Hale’s disabling shots, now facing federal murder charges. Trump’s post, linking the tragedy to “damage” from immigration, promised “reverse migration” to “cure” the system, revoking Biden-era admissions via autopen and deporting non-citizens “not a net asset” or posing risks— a blueprint affecting 1.2 million TPS holders from Haiti, Sudan, and Ukraine.The personal attacks, woven into the policy thunder, revived a 2016 rumor about Omar that Minnesota officials investigated but found baseless, with fact-checks from The New York Times citing no evidence despite unverified DNA claims by partisans. Omar, the Somali refugee who arrived at 8 in 1992 and became the first Muslim woman in Congress in 2019, has long faced such scrutiny, her advocacy for refugee rights and criticism of Israel drawing fire. “This isn’t leadership—it’s division dressed as gratitude,” Omar responded on X that evening, her words a mother’s resolve as she held her three children close in Minneapolis, where Somali communities have thrived since the 1990s resettlement. Walz, the 2024 VP nominee and governor since 2019, faced the slur amid his handling of 2020 protests and rural education pushes, his office issuing a measured reply: “Words like that hurt families, including those with disabilities. We deserve better—focus on unity.” The barbs, part of Trump’s unfiltered style, drew bipartisan rebukes—Sen. Mitt Romney calling them “beneath the office,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar labeling “racist relics”—but resonated with supporters weary of urban crime spikes.For 42-year-old Haitian TPS holder Marie Jean-Baptiste in Miami, the post’s policy heart evoked a profound dread, the holiday’s thanks soured by uprooting fears. Jean-Baptiste, who fled Port-au-Prince’s gangs in 2011 and now doubles shifts at a nail salon to support her U.S.-born son, felt the floor drop as she read it over cold pie. “I’ve paid taxes, voted, raised my boy here—now, because of where I was born, we’re packing?” she asked, her voice trembling as she showed the alert to a coworker, tears blurring the screen. Haiti’s TPS, extended by Biden in 2024 for 353,000 amid violence killing 4,000, faces revocation under Trump’s “reverse migration,” a plan stripping benefits and triggering removals for non-citizens from nations like Venezuela and Somalia. Jean-Baptiste’s family, her son’s diploma a fragile shield, confronts separation, her salon—a neighborhood hub—threatened. “Thanksgiving’s about thanks—how do I give thanks for this fear?” she wondered, her resolve a mother’s fire amid uncertainty. In a Little Haiti church, 200 prayed in Creole hymns, Rev. Jean-Marc Pierre linking arms with Marie: “We’ve built lives here—this isn’t thanks; it’s tearing.”Supporters saw vindication in a Toledo diner, where 62-year-old Jim Hargrove passed phones over pie. “Overdue—my neighborhood changed with folks who don’t integrate, strain schools. Trump gets it,” Hargrove said, quoting “net asset” as the room agreed on housing crunches. Online, #AmericaIsBack trended with 2.8 million posts, stories of “revitalized communities” from rural Ohio to Florida enclaves.
The blueprint targets 1.2 million TPS holders, revoking citizenship for “terrorism” charges—a INA gray area sparking ACLU suits. “Recovery from damage—illegal immigration hurt badly,” Trump wrote, citing 2.5 million encounters since 2021. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hailed “sovereignty,” her post 1.2 million likes. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen decried “overreach,” her SIV bill stalling.As December dawns, reviews for January 2026 unfold in reckonings—families packing, supporters toasting. Trump’s words, raw as holiday talk, invite reflection: Gratitude for welcome, tempered by protection. In Miami churches and Minneapolis markets, thanks endures—in hands across tables, family the true feast.
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