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The president\u2019s post clearly showed the students\u2019 faces. Replies filled with anti-Muslim invectives, including one user who labeled the children \u201cfuture terrorists.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>

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The young children\u2019s faces were clearly visible in the video President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social. (Tim Post\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Hateful emails and phone calls targeted a Minnesota school serving Somali families after President Donald Trump shared a video of its kindergartners on Truth Social this week, an episode that many Somali Americans see as an escalation of a sustained campaign of political and rhetorical attacks during Trump\u2019s second term, community leaders said.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Trump reposted a video from a kindergarten graduation ceremony at Gateway STEM Academy, a K-8 charter school in St. Paul. In the clip, children wearing blue graduation gowns, including <\/b>girls wearing <\/b>hijabs beneath their mortarboards, sing in Somali as they celebrate the end of the school year.<\/p>\n

Trump amplified another user\u2019s caption: \u201cEvery girl is in a hijab \u2026 in kindergarten.\u201d<\/p>\n

The faces of the young children were clearly visible in the video shared with Trump\u2019s 12.9 million followers. Members of the Somali community said that exposure could open the door to attacks on some of the community\u2019s most vulnerable members. The replies to Trump\u2019s post quickly filled with anti-Muslim invectives, including one user who called the children \u201cfuture terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many Minnesotans of Somali descent, the post was the latest salvo in a months-long campaign in which Trump has repeatedly singled them <\/b>out while his administration has mounted an aggressive immigration and law enforcement operation in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first term of Donald Trump was a cakewalk compared to this,\u201d said Suleiman Adan, Deputy Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations\u2019 Minnesota chapter. \u201cIn the first term, you saw attacks on equality, belonging and justice. In the second term, it\u2019s an attack on basic human dignity. Right now, the crosshairs are on the Somali community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adan said he and other advocates had been in contact with officials at the school, who told them they have been contending with hateful emails, phone calls and social media posts.<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the post or the reactions to it.<\/p>\n

The ceremony was on the last day of school for the rising first-graders, who have not been back to the building since Trump\u2019s post, Adan said.<\/p>\n

The school is mulling safety measures for when classes <\/b>restart. The incident has also increased concern around Saturday schools that teach Somali language and culture.<\/p>\n

Gateway STEM Academy\u2019s parent handbook describes the school as a STEM-focused charter that seeks to \u201cembrace\u201d students\u2019 cultural backgrounds and encourages family participation in cultural celebrations, while emphasizing academic rigor, attendance and discipline. It also offers Arabic among its electives alongside science, technology and math programming.<\/p>

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The video featured in the social media post began as a recording of an ordinary school celebration before ricocheting through the online right. The song, in Somali, is benign: it speaks of the pride of being a student, the joy of reaching a milestone and hopes for continued success, said Malika Dahir, the executive director of Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment.<\/p>\n

Members of the Somali community routinely stream milestone moments for friends <\/b>and relatives who live in other countries or states, Dahir added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere isn\u2019t a graduation or a wedding that isn\u2019t live-streamed,\u201d she said. \u201cWe share these online, because family members are all over the world. It\u2019s a way to share momentous occasions. To feel like now these moments might be weaponized, there\u2019s just a sense of loss, like our joy has been stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video was circulated by End Wokeness, an influential conservative social media account, with a caption drawing attention to the girls\u2019 hijabs. Trump reposted the clip, first without explanation and later with the account\u2019s caption attached.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. (Shawn Thew for The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The post was consistent with Trump\u2019s frequent use of Truth Social to share racially charged, often inflammatory, imagery. Earlier this year, his account posted a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, which was deleted after bipartisan condemnation. He later shared a doctored image of the Obamas beside a graffiti-covered Air Force One bearing \u201cBLM\u201d and Arabic writing.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is home to roughly 80,000 people of Somali descent, the largest Somali community in the United States. Trump has repeatedly singled out Somali <\/b>immigrants during his second term, seizing on a series of sprawling fraud investigations involving state and federal social-service programs. Many of those charged are Somali or Somali American.<\/p>\n

The largest fraud allegation centered on a nonprofit whose operators and affiliates were accused of diverting about $250 million from a federally funded child-nutrition program. Federal prosecutors have also brought separate cases involving programs intended to provide housing assistance to vulnerable adults and therapy for children with autism. Prosecutors say defendants used some of the money to buy cars, real estate and other personal luxuries.<\/p>\n

Trump has <\/b>used the scandals to justify large-scale federal intervention in Minnesota, dispatching thousands of immigration officers to the Twin Cities in an operation that extended well beyond the people accused of fraud. The deployment prompted weeks of protests and confrontations between agents and residents.<\/p>\n

During the operation, federal officers fatally shot Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti, both 37-year-old U.S. citizens, in separate encounters that were captured on video and became flash points in the national debate over Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n

The administration subsequently changed leadership of the operation and began drawing down the federal presence. In February, border czar Tom Homan announced that 700 officers would leave Minnesota, although he attributed the withdrawal to increased cooperation from state and local authorities rather than directly to the shootings.<\/p>

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