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Posted: 2019-02-12T18:05:59Z | Updated: 2019-02-12T18:56:05Z

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Rep. llhan Omar (D-Minn.) to either resign from Congress or step down from a House committee assignment over recent tweets some lawmakers decried as anti-Semitic.

I think she should either resign from Congress or she should certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the president told reporters on Tuesday.

Omar apologized Monday after congressional Democratic leadership condemned comments she made on Twitter a day earlier about pro-Israel lobbying. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused Omar of using anti-Semitic tropes in her tweets.

We have to always be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity, Omar wrote in a statement Monday. This is why I unequivocally apologize.

But the president claimed Tuesday that Omars apology was lame and that her comments are deep-seated in her heart.

She didnt mean a word of it, Trump said of her apology.

Omars office did not immediately respond to HuffPosts request for comment.