It's almost impossible to know for certain what exactly did he respond to in his mind but this AIPAC criticism was reported at the time.
Trump calls on Ilhan Omar to resign from Congress for ‘anti-Semitism’
February 12, 2019
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump called on Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., to resign from Congress for what he said was her anti-Semitism.
“It’s terrible what she said and I think she should either resign from Congress, or she should certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “What she said is so deep-seated in her heart that her lame apology, and that’s what it was, it was lame and she didn’t mean a word of it, was just not appropriate. I think she should resign from Congress.”
Omar, in her first term in the Congress, said Sunday on Twitter that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee pays lawmakers to be pro-Israel. After condemnations from Republicans and Democrats, including the Democratic leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, she said she “unequivocally” apologized after speaking with “Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes.”
Apparently powerful enough to create such stunning response from some old MAGA supporters:
David Duke supported Trump in 2016 and now supports Ilhan Omar
But Trump himself has been falsely accused of being 'anti-semite' , 'racist' in 2016 before elections, whereas in reality Trump is probably the most pro-diversity/pro-racial integration President in US history (he may end up being impeached for a misunderstood call he made to then US EU ambassador Sondland trying to get another Somali-American immigrant mother's son rapper Rocky A$AP freed from Swedish custody).
So perhaps his own apparent pandering statements with such accusations should be seen in that context.
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