President Trump branded Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed a radical extremist and terrorist sympathizer while giving Republican Mike Rogers his complete endorsement in Michigan’s open seat race.
Just the News reported that President Donald Trump this week went after El-Sayed on Truth Social, calling the Democrat a poor fit for Michigan and tying him to left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.
Trump referred to the candidate as “Mohammed El-Sayed” and drew a hard contrast with former Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican in the contest for the open U.S. Senate seat.
Trump posted:
"Mohammed El-Sayed is a terrible Candidate for the Dumocrats. While his opponent, Mike Rogers, is an extremely good one, Mohammed goes back to the days of the Jihad,"
He kept going in the same post, labeling El-Sayed a “RADICAL Extremist, Terrorist Sympathizer” and saying he was “no different from his best friend, America Hating Hasan Piker.” Trump then asked, “How’s France doing?” and said El-Sayed’s values “are not exactly those of Michiganders, or those of our Great United States of America.”
Trump closed with a full-throated endorsement: “He is WRONG for Michigan, and WRONG for America. VOTE FOR MIKE ROGERS, HE HAS MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT, AND WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”
El-Sayed has already taken flak during the race for his ties to Piker. The streamer has said America “deserved” 9/11, among other sensational statements that put him far outside mainstream politics.
That association tracks with earlier pushback Trump has leveled at the same circle, including when Trump branded Hasan Piker a communist and said the streamer hurts Democrats.
Rogers, a former Michigan congressman, now carries the president’s explicit backing in what both sides treat as a high-stakes open-seat fight.
Trump’s “How’s France doing?” jab did not appear in a vacuum. The Washington Free Beacon detailed deleted 2022 World Cup posts in which El-Sayed denounced France as a “colonizer,” cheered for Morocco, and claimed to speak for the African and Arab diaspora while offering no support for the U.S. team.
El-Sayed wrote at the time:
"We are all #Morocco. Can't wait to watch them take it to the colonizer in the #WorldCup semifinal."
The Free Beacon also noted El-Sayed’s broader pattern of anti-Western remarks, including criticism of U.S. foreign policy on 9/11 anniversaries and suggestions that Israel posed a greater threat than Iran. Those posts supply the concrete record behind Trump’s France reference and his larger claim that El-Sayed’s outlook clashes with Michigan voters.
Questions about El-Sayed’s network have followed him on other fronts as well, including reporting on CAIR-affiliated donors who backed his Senate bid.
Breitbart reported that El-Sayed answered the Truth Social broadside by focusing on Trump’s use of “Mohammed” rather than Abdul, and by claiming the president is struggling under criticism.
El-Sayed said:
"He thinks my name’s Mohammed... My name’s Abdul, and you know it. And the only reason he won’t say it is I keep ripping you,"
Breitbart framed the Michigan contest as a knife-edge race that could help decide control of the Senate. Trump’s post treated the choice as clear-cut: Rogers as the strong candidate, El-Sayed as the wrong one for the state and the country.
Democratic tension around the nominee has surfaced inside Michigan too, including when state Democrat Karen Whitsett warned Black voters against El-Sayed and tore into the party’s socialist wing.
Trump returned to the race after a Michigan Senate debate and declared that Rogers had dominated. Fox News reported the president’s fresh Truth Social assessment of the matchup.
Trump wrote that Rogers “completely obliterated” El-Sayed and added that “if this was a fight they would have stopped it.” In related posts he again cast El-Sayed as a “RADICAL Extremist, Terrorist Sympathizer” and went further, calling him a “Jihadist lunatic who hates our Country, the Black People of Detroit, and wants to see the U.S. fail.”
El-Sayed, for his part, accused Trump of using his name and faith as a distraction from policy. Trump’s message stayed fixed on the contrast he wants voters to see: Rogers as a steady Republican hand, El-Sayed as a radical out of step with Michigan.
That same scrutiny has hit El-Sayed in other settings, including moments when he faced direct questions about Iran’s regime and declined to give a clear condemnation.
Rogers now runs as the candidate with the president’s “complete and total endorsement.” El-Sayed runs as the Democrat Trump has defined by the Piker association, the old France posts, and a record Trump says rejects basic American loyalties.
Michigan voters get a clean choice between a former congressman Trump trusts and a Democrat whose own words and alliances keep putting him on the wrong side of the country’s core instincts.
