"The memory of 9/11 is sacred ground, and any discussion of it must be done with reverence. The President shouldn't use the painful images of 9/11 for a political attack," Pelosi said on Saturday.
The Democratic leader added that it's "wrong for the President, as Commander-in-Chief, to fan the flames to make anyone less safe."
The President on Friday tweeted out an edited video that used comments Omar made at the Council on American-Islamic Relations last month spliced with news footage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
"We will never forget!" Trump wrote.
The under-a-minute video that Trump posted did not include Omar's comments in context. CNN has reached out to Omar's spokesperson for comment.
"For far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and, frankly, I'm tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it. CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties," Omar said last month. CAIR was founded in 1994.
In a tweet on Friday morning, Omar -- one of the first two Muslim women in Congress -- quoted former President George W. Bush in the wake of the attack as a way of defending her own words.
" 'The people — and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!' " said Omar, quoting Bush's words in 2001. "Was Bush downplaying the terrorist attack? What if he was a Muslim?"
Several congressional Democrats and 2020 Democratic presidential candidates came to Omar's defense and accused Trump of inciting violence against the Minnesota congresswoman.
"Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage," Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont tweeted. "She won't back down to Trump's racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said: "The President is inciting violence against a sitting Congresswoman -- and an entire group of Americans based on their religion."
"It's disgusting. It's shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it," she continued.
The New York Post on Thursday published its cover with an image of the Twin Towers engulfed in flames and the headline, "Here's your something."
Some of Omar's high-profile House Democratic colleagues called the cover "hateful," suggested the congresswoman's comments were manipulated, and accused the owner of the Post, Rupert Murdoch, who has deep ties to Trump, of endangering Omar's life.
A week ago, a New York man was arrested and charged with threatening to assault and murder Omar because of her Muslim faith.
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