Somali Candidate Lied About Standing in Front of Inverted US flag, Used AI to Edit the Video, Got Media to Say MAGA Created “Deepfakes”
21st October 2026
If you don’t know, Somalis living inside the United States like to fly the U.S. flag upside-down.
This keeps happening in the great state of Minnesota-stan.
On July 3 of this year, a Somali man named Omar Podi raised an American flag the wrong way for a Somali Independence Day celebration in St. Cloud, but claimed he simply didn’t know better.
This week, a Somali woman who is running for office in Oregon took a different tack and tried to pretend it never happened.
Nafisa Fai is running for chair of Washington County. Last week, she was in Minnesota for a political rally (because of course) and spoke Somali to the crowd (because of course).