​GOP Sen. Rand Paul offered to buy Rep. Ilhan Omar a ticket to Somalia so she could learn to “appreciate America more.”

“While I’m not saying we forcibly send her anywhere, I’m willing to contribute to buy her a ticket to go visit Somalia, and I think she could look and maybe learn a little bit about the disaster that is Somalia​ –​ that has no capitalism, has no God-given rights guaranteed in a constitution, and has about seven different tribes that have been fighting each other for the last 40 years,​”​ ​the Kentucky Republican told Breitbart in an interview published last Wednesday. ​”​And then, maybe after she’s visited Somalia for a while, she might come back and appreciate America more.​”​

​Omar, who represents Minnesota in Congress, was born in Somalia but fled the African country with her parents when she was 12 and spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya.

She and her family came to the US in 1992 and she became a naturalized citizen.

Paul’s comments to the conservative website were in defense of President Trump’s tweets about Omar and her three freshman Democratic colleagues in the House — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib.

Trump in tweets called for them to “go back to totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

The three other than Omar were all born in the US.

Paul went on in the interview to say that he’s met people in Kentucky who were refugees from Somalia and from Bosnia, but “most of them were grateful.”

Omar is “about as ungrateful as you can get,” he said.

In an op-ed in the New York Times last week after a crowd at a Trump rally earlier this month in North Carolina chanted “Send her back,” Omar said she and her family came to the US to find a better life and to escape the “horrors of civil war.”

“The ideals at the heart of our founding -​-​ equal protection under the law, pluralism, religious liberty ​–​ are under attack, and it is up to all of us to defend them​,” she wrote in the opinion piece.​