One of the universal experiences of parenthood is that, sooner rather than later, your child will say something that’s simultaneously very dumb, but also endearing because it reflects a view of the world that no adult could possibly have. A child might assume that his teacher lives at school, for example. And then he’ll express utter shock and horror when he sees one of his teachers at the supermarket. Or maybe he’ll wonder why the moon is following him around at night, or why people don’t just use ATMs to withdraw unlimited amounts of money. Unless you’re a chronic marijuana user, these aren’t the kind of thoughts you typically have as an adult. It’s a simplistic and off-kilter way of thinking, but you give it a pass, and even find it charming, when it’s coming from your five-year-old. When you’re scrolling through videos on your phone and you hear something like this from a sitting member of Congress, on the other hand, all of the charm is lost. You see, in order to be a member of the House of Representatives, you have to be 25 years old at a minimum. Your frontal cortex has to be relatively well-developed, at least in theory. We have this restriction — as minimal as it is — because we don’t want legislators introducing bills that guarantee, I don’t know, mandatory birthday parties every month. And we also don’t want members of Congress to stand in front of a podium, and deliver moments like this one, live on national television. Watch: A resurfaced clip from January 2025 shows woke Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar referring to World War II as “World War Eleven.” The lawmaker is often vulgar in her public statements and talks down to Americans, while praising her country of origin, a failed state. Her… pic.twitter.com/9O0am39bnh — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 28, 2026 Source: @MrAndyNgo/X.com The phrase “jaw-dropping” is overused these days, but there’s really no better way to describe this footage. She tells us, without hesitating at all, that this particular law hasn’t been invoked since World War Eleven. Yes, World War Eleven. Whoever wrote this script for Ilhan Omar, needless to say, badly overestimated her intelligence, in at least two different ways. First of all, of course, she read the Roman Numeral “II” as “eleven,” which means she somehow has no familiarity with the concept of a Roman Numeral. We can deduce that she’s never opened a history book at any point in her life, or watched a movie sequel, or read an outline, or paid any attention to the Super Bowl, or seen one of those old-fashioned clock faces, or met anyone who’s named after his father, or anything like that. But even if, for some reason, you’re inclined to give Ilhan Omar a pass for not understanding Roman Numerals, there’s an even bigger problem here, which is that she thinks it’s plausible that there were eleven different World Wars. That’s one of those moments that, no matter how much you want to give someone the benefit of the doubt, is simply impossible to defend. The words “World War Eleven” should not come out of your mouth, under any circumstances. Instinctively, you should know something’s wrong at that point, and you should hit the brakes before you say anything. People are giving her credit for catching her mistake a couple seconds later, but this is one of those errors that just shouldn’t happen to begin with. The brain needs to intercept this particular thought immediately, and neutralize it. I’m the first to admit that someone who speaks publicly all the time might commit a flub here or there, a gaffe, mispronounce a name on occasion — or in my case, mispronounce basically every name, every time. These things are understandable. But the term “world war eleven” is so jarring, so wrong, so divorced from reality, that it simply should not leave your lips. If it does, then that’s evidence of much deeper intellectual deficiencies. So in this case, we can assume one of two things. The first possibility — which admittedly is very remote — is that Ilhan Omar might have an extremely low IQ, and she’s spent a non-zero amount of time after watching “The Godfather Part II” wondering where the other 10 Godfather movies are. She knows she can’t find them on Netflix, but she’s pretty sure they’re out there, somewhere. Or maybe she’s done the same thing with “Back to the Future Part II” or “Star Wars Episode II” or “Rocky II.” That would be the worst-case scenario, by far —  at least for Ilhan Omar. The other possibility is that she’s right, and everyone else is wrong. Maybe there really have been 11 world wars, and we’ve just been undercounting this whole time. And if that’s the case, then effective immediately, I’m calling for one more World War. Now look, I’m as skeptical of foreign intervention as anyone else. And yes, there would be a lot of casualties in World War 12. But if there’s already been eleven world wars, then I think we might as well do one more and make it an even dozen. Frankly, eleven is just a weird number to end on. We’re so close to a nice round number. And it’s about time our leaders did something for the benefit of the OCD community. All things considered though, Occam’s Razor probably wins here. And that’s a sobering realization. As I said on X, our founding fathers never even considered the possibility that illiterate, moronic third-world women would one day be shipped into this country — and then elected to Congress. We are discovering a method of national suicide that never entered the minds of the founders. Or at least, to the extent that it did enter their minds, they warned us, repeatedly, not to succumb to it. And they didn’t mince words. More on that in a second. But first, it’s important to underscore the extent of the contrast between what Ilhan Omar represents, on the one hand, and the “America First” leadership that currently sits in the White House on the other. What Ilhan Omar represents, although she’s too dumb to realize it, is the notion that America is a “propositional nation” — which is to say, a nation that’s nothing more than a set of ideas. In particular, she represents the fiction that America is open to everyone, that “diversity is our strength,” and that everyone who sets foot inside our borders is just as American as anyone else. Yesterday, Donald Trump hosted King Charles III at the White House — or as Ilhan Omar calls him, King Charles one-hundred-and-eleven. And Trump delivered one of the best speeches of his political career, without question. It wasn’t just a rejection of Democrat Party orthodoxy, or the suggestion that America is a propositional nation. We’re not defined by any Supreme Court decision or even the Constitution. Instead, Trump made it clear that America is defined by shared culture, religion, language, territory, and ancestry. One cannot simply “identify” as an American. As a country, we’re successful because of our Anglo-Saxon heritage. Watch: Source: USA Today/YouTube.com “The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance, their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage.” Every single time they say Trump is equivalent to Hitler, and every single time they call MAGA supporters “Nazis,” they’re trying to de-program you so that you don’t think along these lines. They’re trying to imply that, if you think heritage matters, then you must be a horrible human being. But the truth is, there’s nothing hateful or genocidal or authoritarian about believing something that happens to be true. And it’s true — demonstrably so — that your heritage matters. Your genetics matter. Your culture matters. The reason Somalia looks the way it does — and we all know it — has nothing to do with “systemic racism” or oppression or colonialism. There are plenty of other formerly-colonized countries, from South Korea to Botswana, that aren’t anywhere near as dysfunctional. For decades in Somalia, they’ve been fighting among themselves. Believe it or not, they just passed a law making sexual assault a crime a few years ago. That’s the kind of thing that happens when you don’t have any common law tradition, or a basic sense of morality. At the state dinner last night, Trump hammered the same point. Watch: