Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking issue with comments from out-of-state Democrats that he believes downplay the horror of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
He spotlighted comments from U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at New College of Florida—Sainer Auditorium.
Mamdani recently said his aunt did not “feel safe in her hijab” in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and that she stopped taking the subway.
DeSantis accused Mamdani of “phony emotion” and jabbed Mamdani for saying “the real hurt of 9/11 was that his aunt got a dirty look on a subway, not that thousands of people were murdered by jihadists.”
DeSantis said Omar claimed that 9/11 “was just somebody did something,” a reference to a quote the Somali-American made in 2019 falsely claiming the Council on American-Islamic Relations was “founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”
She eventually clarified that the group grew after 9/11. But for DeSantis, that’s not the point. To him, the Democrats’ comments indicate “a real sickness out there in American society.”
DeSantis went on to joke about what he might have to do if Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York City.
“Look, if I have to build a wall on I-95 … maybe we’ll have to do it,” he quipped.
