Ilhan Omar posts picture with Nancy Pelosi in Africa: 'They said 'send her back' but…she went back with me'

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Ghana and swiped at President Donald Trump's recent 'go back' rhetoric.

, an invitation by Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo to the world's African Diaspora to visit the lands and people to which they are ancestrally connected. Pelosi addressed Ghana's Parliament on the trip.

Pelosi also swiped at Trump by sending a message of support to her Democratic colleague Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who, along with his Baltimore district, has been the target of a recent barrage of invective by the president"To @RepCummings with love from Ghana, where we're solemnly observing 400 yrs since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. Thank you Elijah for fearlessly speaking truth," Pelosi wrote on Twitter.

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