Minneapolis Mayor Releases Ad Speaking Somali

Somalians have completely overthrown Minnesota.

A new ad from the mayor of Minneapolis has gone viral after the mayor is seen speaking Somali.

Mayor Jacob Frey shocked many users on X after releasing a two-minute video of him speaking in Somali.

Watch here:

Minneapolis Mayor, Jacob Frey, speaks Somali to his supporters.

FFS. pic.twitter.com/cuoyIYdHHI

— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) September 20, 2025

Here’s how social media reacted:

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks SOMALI as he panders to the cities Somali residents.

“The bond between Somalia and Minneapolis is long-standing and it’s deep.”

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— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) September 21, 2025

Here’s Frey after the death of George Floyd:

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey crying at George Floyd's funeralpic.twitter.com/P05eHtK6qc

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) May 26, 2025

Sahan Journal reported the latest on Minneapolis’s mayoral race:

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was elected twice to the city’s top office with strong support from the city’s Somali voters, but this year, he faces a strong challenger who could pull significant votes from that base.

State Senator Omar Fateh gained the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party endorsement last month against Frey, the first time in the party’s history that an incumbent for Minneapolis mayor lost to a challenger. The upset puts Frey into a new dynamic facing a prominent Somali politician who has represented south Minneapolis as a two-term state senator, and who could make history if he wins the Nov. 4 general election.

Omar’s prominence in the Somali community and his DFL endorsement make him the most serious Somali candidate to ever run for Minneapolis mayor, said Graham Faulkner, a co-campaign manager for Omar’s mayoral campaign.

Faulkner acknowledged that Frey has “put in a lot of work to build his support in the Somali community” over the years.

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“Whether that means folks stay loyal to him, I can’t speak to that,” Faulkner said. “But we’re in a position to be able to show the East African voting base that this is a real historic opportunity here. It’s really going to depend on the groundwork.”

Last month, Frey received backlash after claiming prayer wasn’t enough shortly after a transgender shot up a Catholic school:

The disgusting mayor of Minneapolis mocks prayer as impotent, demanding political action instead. But he's already mayor. His political party controls his entire state. What's been proven impotent is precisely the godless political action he demands.pic.twitter.com/ylvrElgWl0

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) August 27, 2025

CBS reported that Frey later called for gun control:

The mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis is again sparking a push for something to change.

Leaders and activists renewed calls for gun control on Thursday. The group said they know for years these kinds of efforts have happened and gone nowhere after other mass shootings, but they believe this time, things will be different.

“We need a statewide and a federal ban on assault weapons,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said.

Frey led the call for the weapons ban and a ban on high-capacity magazines.

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“So the next go-around, there is not another city two months from now that is saying the same damn thing. Let’s stop this from happening,” Frey said.