Sen. Rand Paul Randal (Rand) Howard PaulThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Trump previews SCOTUS nominee as 'totally brilliant' Rand Paul says he can't judge 'guilt or innocence' in Breonna Taylor case Overnight Health Care: Health officials tell public to trust in science | Despair at CDC under Trump influence | A new vaccine phase 3 trial starts MORE (R-Ky.) offered to help purchase plane tickets for Rep. Ilhan Omar Ilhan OmarOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Trump attacks Omar for criticizing US: 'How did you do where you came from?' Democrats scramble on COVID-19 relief amid division, Trump surprise MORE (D-Minn.) to visit Somalia, saying it might make her “appreciate America more.”

Paul, in an interview with the right-wing website Breitbart last week, called the freshman congresswoman “about as ungrateful as you can get.”

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“And so — I’m willing to contribute to buy her a ticket to go visit Somalia, and I think she can 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 senator said.

“And then maybe after she’s visited Somalia for a while, she might come back and appreciate America more.”

Omar came to the U.S. as a refugee with her family from Somalia. She became the first Somali American elected to state office in Minnesota, and in 2018 she again made history as the first Somali American, as well as one of the first two Muslim women, elected to Congress.

An Omar spokesperson declined to comment in response to Paul’s Breitbart interview.

Omar was recently attacked by President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE in tweets directed at her and three fellow freshman Democrats, all of who are women of color, telling them to “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

The tweets, which Trump has doubled down on, were widely denounced as racist by Democrats and some Republicans.

After the tweets, at a rally in North Carolina, the crowd chanted “send her back” when the president mentioned the congresswoman.

The president paused during the chant, only continuing his speech when it died down.

He later said he did not agree with the chant and tried to quell it.