As Trump renewed his criticism of Omar on Friday, the freshman lawmaker received a strong display of support from constituents in her district who greeted her at the Minneapolis-St Paul airport on Thursday with chants of “Welcome home llhan”.

The scenes unfolded against the backdrop of another contentious week in Washington, with Trump initially seeking to distance himself from the cries of “send her back” that erupted at his campaign rally in North Carolina on Wednesday…

Rabbi Avi Olitzky, a faith leader from Omar’s home district in Minnesota, likened the scene at Trump’s North Carolina rally to the days of Adolf Hitler.

“This is a very eerie wave of similar situations in history, be that Nazi Germany or elsewhere,” he told ABC News.