Trump renews attacks on Somali Americans a day after freezing federal childcare funding to Minnesota over fraud claims.

United States President Donald Trump has unleashed another attack on Somali Americans, with the White House saying the administration is reviewing plans to strip citizenship from those convicted of fraud

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The statements on Wednesday came a day after the Trump administration froze $185m in federal subsidies for low-income childcare amid claims of fraud at daycares run by Somali Americans in Minnesota’s largest city, Minneapolis.

In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that “much of Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia”. He also repeated attacks on Somali American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, calling her “one of the many scammers”. “Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth,” Trump wrote.

Meanwhile, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in an interview on Fox News that the administration was “looking at” possibly revoking citizenship from Somali Americans convicted of fraud. She said that denaturalisation remained “a tool at the president and the secretary of state’s disposal”.

Trump and his allies have repeatedly threatened to strip citizenship from an array of naturalised citizens: those born outside the US but who acquire citizenship through the government’s immigration processes.

While legal experts have noted that citizenship can be stripped from foreign-born citizens, the practice is exceedingly rare and often requires a high burden of proof, showing an individual was naturalised under false pretences.

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