POLITICS● ELEVATEDOct 8 · Oct 8, 2026, 5:08 PM
Trump misnames Muslim senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed ‘Mohammed’
South China Morning Post · north america
US President Donald Trump misnamed Muslim candidate for the US Senate Abdul El-Sayed on Thursday, calling him Mohammed and baselessly accusing him of being a “Terrorist Sympathiser”. El-Sayed, an Arab American running for a Michigan senate seat that could decide which party wins the US upper chamber in knife-edge midterm polls next month, fired back, saying “he knows my name”. Left-wing insurgent candidate El-Sayed accused Trump of “using my name and faith to distract us from the suffering his...
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