{"id":36565,"date":"2026-02-26T08:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=36565"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:13:44","slug":"embarrassed-somali-pirates-distance-themselves-from-ilhan-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/embarrassed-somali-pirates-distance-themselves-from-ilhan-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassed Somali Pirates Distance Themselves From Ilhan Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, SOMALIA\u2014In a rare press release from the high seas, a coalition of Somali pirates announced Wednesday that they are formally distancing themselves from Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar following her unhinged and embarrassing outburst during President Trump&#8217;s 2026 State of the Union address, claiming her behavior has tarnished their already questionable reputation.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2026 State of the Union, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-blasts-omar-tlaib-lunatics-says-send-them-back-after-sotu-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilhan Omar protested<\/a> President Donald Trump\u2019s speech by screaming, cursing, and screeching. The pirates insisted they had no official affiliation with the Minnesota lawmaker, despite years of being used as a recurring comparison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a proud people with a rich tradition of high-seas robbery,&#8221; said one Somali pirate to a few kidnapped international journalists. &#8220;But watching Representative Omar screech at President Trump on national television while defending a $250 million daycare scam? It makes us sick to our stomachs. She is giving Somalis a terrible reputation and making us pirates look bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pirates also took the opportunity to distance their so-called legitimate extortion business from the Minnesota fraudsters Omar was defending, saying that the Somali scammers in Minneapolis were stealing money meant for hungry ghost toddlers.<\/p>\n<p>At press time,<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/ilhan-omar-distracts-from-daycare-fraud-scandal-with-winery-fraud-scandal\/\"> Ilhan Omar<\/a> dismissed the Somali pirates&#8217; statement as a far-right stunt, claiming that the pirates were obviously just racist, Nazi, MAGA white supremacists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, SOMALIA\u2014In a rare press release from the high seas, a coalition of Somali pirates announced Wednesday that they are formally distancing themselves from Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar following her unhinged and embarrassing outburst during President Trump&#8217;s 2026 State of the Union address, claiming her behavior has tarnished their already questionable reputation. During the 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[267,890,1113],"class_list":["post-36565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-africa","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-rated-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}