Ilhan Omar deletes Juneteenth post when confronted with brutal truth

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar deleted a Juneteenth post after a conservative commentator humiliated her with a truth bomb.

Omar celebrated Juneteenth this Thursday by publishing a post to X talking about the end of slavery in the United States.

“160 years ago on June 19, 1865, slavery ended in this country,” she wrote. “Today, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, and achievement, and continue the work to root out systematic racism from our policies and institutions.”

Responding to her since-deleted post, commentator Gunther Eagleman pointed out that her home country of Somalia, which she’s very, very, very fond of, “still has slaves.”

Somalia still has slaves. Ilhan should go fight to free her own people. https://t.co/12V0fzaP52

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 19, 2025

After Eagleman posted his humiliating reply, Omar mysteriously deleted her original post.

A copy of the original post may be seen below:

She deleted her post https://t.co/Q2Cm7Flt3R pic.twitter.com/cQGTquNsIy

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 19, 2025

Here’s where the story takes an interesting turn.

Shortly after all this occurred, Omar posted a NEW Juneteenth post.

“On Juneteenth, we remember that freedom is not always swift but it is always worth the fight,” she wrote. “It’s a powerful reminder of how long justice can take to reach those who deserve it most.”

“Today, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, and achievement, and continue the work to root out systematic racism from our policies and institutions,” she added.

View the new post below:

On Juneteenth, we remember that freedom is not always swift but it is always worth the fight. It’s a powerful reminder of how long justice can take to reach those who deserve it most.

Today, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, and achievement, and continue the work to root…

— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) June 19, 2025

Notice anything missing?

Unlike in her original post, there was no longer any mention of slavery — almost as if Omar felt embarrassed and humiliated over the fact that her beloved home country still allows it.

But the public, meanwhile, clearly hasn’t forgotten what she originally wrote, as evidenced by the flurry of tweets about slavery that keep being posted in response to her second tweet.

Below is a sample of them:

Hey, why don’t you somalies stop enslaving each other? You never whine and cry about how your people and slave each other so I’m guessing slavery is okay with you.

— Milton Waddams (@MiltonWadd752) June 20, 2025

It’s quite odd that you’re obsessed with slavery that existed hundreds of years ago while turning a blind eye to the current slavery happening today in your own home country.

— TheLizVariant (@TheLizVariant) June 20, 2025

Somalia still has slavery, no? Isn’t that you are from? Do you support slavery because you’re always talking about how you could help Somalia and speaking highly of your birth nation.

— Lucius Cornelius Sulla (@Sulla2021) June 20, 2025

You are a racist hypocrite who hates America. Why don’t you speak out about your native country to free your own people from slavery? You need to be investigated by the FBI and DOJ.

— Bigred911 911GT (@B911gt13067) June 20, 2025

Somalia currently has about 98K people in slavery. Perhaps she should bring this up when she talks about rooting out systemic racism. The Somalis are quite bigoted toward the ethnic Bantu in the country. https://t.co/6NvXbHcxua

— G F (@GFsomewhere) June 20, 2025

All this comes amid Omar trash-talking the United States.

Appearing on “Democracy Now” earlier this week, she claimed she couldn’t “remember ever witnessing anything like” what she’s seen in the United States in recent days.

“To have democracy, a beacon of hope for the world, to now be turned into one of the worst countries, where the military are in our streets without any regard for people’s constitutional rights, while our president is spending millions of dollars propping himself up like a failed dictator with a military parade, it is really shocking and it should be a wake-up call for all Americans to say this is not the country we were born in, and this is not the country we believe in,” she said.

Listen:

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Ilhan Omar just called AMERICA one of the WORST countries in the world pic.twitter.com/11WWZ7AZU1

— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) June 17, 2025

Like with her Juneteenth tweet, these remarks also prompted massive pushback, with critics wondering why she doesn’t just return home if she hates it here so much.

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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