Trump misnames Muslim senate candidate ‘Mohammed’
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Trump and his supporters have fixated on Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, accusing him of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda
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Agence France-Presse Published: 1:08am, 9 Oct 2026
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 politics are inflicting on us”.
Like many Muslim men, El-Sayed’s middle name is Mohamed but he does not use it publicly.
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