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Ilhan Omar Goes Viral For the Worst Reason | WATCH

Ilhan Omar accidentally skipped nine world wars in a single sentence, and the internet can't stop laughing.

Ilhan Omar Goes Viral For the Worst Reason | WATCH

In what historians are already calling “the most confusing timeline since the actual World War II,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has bravely ventured where no elected official has gone before: straight past World War II… and into World War Eleven.

During a passionate speech railing against the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, Omar dropped this absolute gem while reading from her notes:

“The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked… it was used during World War Eleven.”

Yes, you read that correctly. Not two. Eleven. As if FDR was out there fighting Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, and some secret boss level with alien invaders.

She caught herself half a second later and mumbled “two,” but by then the internet had already screenshot, clipped, and memed it into the stratosphere. The damage was done. World War Eleven is now canon.

Political observers were quick to react:

This is the same congresswoman who once famously said she needed to “learn more about” the Holocaust after comparing it to U.S. border policy. At this point, her grasp of 20th-century history is starting to look like a game of telephone played across multiple continents.

Welcome to World War Eleven, folks. Bring your own flamethrowers and zero historical context.

We’ll be here covering the front lines… probably somewhere between World War IX and World War XII.

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