James Woods Shreds 'Somali Parasite' Ilhan Omar, 'Insufferable Scum' Democrats Protesting Trump's SOTU Speech
Woods criticized Omar after she protested and heckled during Trump’s State of the Union address.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYBreitbart is an established but strongly partisan outlet, and this piece uses highly charged framing while offering little original reporting beyond a public figure’s social-media comments and a cited poll.
- Source type — Opinion-oriented, partisan publisher; this is a strong prior for lower institutional credibility.
- Editorial standards — The presentation uses overtly partisan and insulting language rather than restrained reporting.
- Author attribution — The article names an author and identifies his editorial role.
- Transparency — It attributes Woods’s comments and identifies CNN as the source of the poll, but gives limited detail about the poll.
The article identifies the people involved and attributes Woods’s remarks and the poll result, but it relies on a narrow set of sources, gives little context, and adopts loaded language in its framing.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article foregrounds criticism of the representatives and offers no response from them or meaningful alternative account of the protest.
- Counterarguments presented — No response from Omar or Tlaib is included.
- Loaded language — The headline and quoted insults create a strongly hostile presentation.
- Source diversity — The piece relies chiefly on Woods’s comments and a poll result.
- Omitted context — The article gives little context about the protesters’ reasons or the broader response to their protest.
The headline and article frame the Democratic protesters in strongly hostile terms while presenting Trump’s speech and poll results favorably.
- Language tone — The headline uses inflammatory insults, and the article repeats Woods’s derogatory descriptions.
- Framing — The protesters are presented as the targets of criticism, while Trump’s remarks and poll results provide favorable context.
- Source selection — The article foregrounds Woods’s criticism and a poll result without including responses from Omar or Tlaib.
Breitbart reports that James Woods criticized Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for heckling and protesting President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. The article also cites a CNN instant poll in which 64 percent of respondents said Trump was moving the country in the right direction.
Breitbart says Omar and Tlaib shouted obscenities while Trump delivered his address. Woods criticized the two representatives on X, calling Omar a “Somali parasite” and later describing the protesting Democrats as “insufferable scum.”
The article says Trump honored the parents of Iryna Zarutska and quotes his description of her killing. It also reports that Democrats remained seated during a standing ovation and that a CNN instant poll found 64 percent of respondents agreed Trump was moving the country in the right direction.
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9 OUTLETSIlhan Omar challenged President Donald Trump during his State of the Union address, joining other Democrats in protesting his remarks. Center outlets emphasize Democratic objections to Trump’s remarks on immigration and Minnesota, while varying in how sharply they portray the interruptions. Right-leaning outlets stress heated disruptions during the speech and, in Breitbart’s case, criticism of Omar and other protesters.
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