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(Newser) – Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar "unequivocally" apologized on Monday for tweets suggesting Jews used money to control politics. "Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes," she said in part. That wasn't an adequate response for President Trump, who on Tuesday described it like so at a Cabinet meeting, per USA Today: "Her lame apology—and that's what it was; it was lame, and she didn't mean a word of it—was just not appropriate." He continued, per the Hill: "Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress. And I think she should either resign from Congress or she should certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee." Things have gotten more heated from there: