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The president defended his treatment of Michigan's Muslim Senate nominee by announcing that he can call people whatever he wants. Apparently the office comes with a playground supervisor's badge.
Donald Trump went to Dalton, Georgia, on October 16 and explained why he keeps calling Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed Mohammad. His defense, captured in a C-SPAN clip reproduced by the Daily Caller, was a little lesson in presidential authority:
“I’m the president of the United States. I can call you whatever the hell I want.”
Well, that settles the health care debate. The man has naming privileges.
During the same rally at Dalton Municipal Airport, Trump offered a broader tip. If you cannot remember the name of somebody from the Middle East, Reuters reports that he recommended you “just say 'Mohammad'.” He put the odds at roughly 65 percent and claimed, “I’ve never been wrong.” He was discussing Iran and pretending to ask men named Mohammad whether they wanted to be its president. Reuters described the crowd's response as muted.
I particularly enjoyed the arithmetic. A 65 percent success rate, followed immediately by a perfect record. Even the bullshit can't agree with itself.
El-Sayed is Muslim. His full name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, so Trump is grabbing a real part of the name and using it instead of the name the candidate uses publicly. The spelling lesson is a distraction. Trump himself described criticism of that choice, then answered it by asserting his power to keep doing it.
El-Sayed had already objected to earlier attacks on October 8. In the response reproduced by the Daily Caller, he said Trump knew his name and was using his faith to distract voters from everyday costs. Eight days later, Trump's answer was that he could do what he wanted.
We just covered John Kennedy's Bin Laden jersey smear at an appearance with Mike Rogers. This time, the president supplied the explanation for his own name game. No visiting senator required.
Argue with El-Sayed's policies. Ask him an unpleasant question about his record. There is plenty a Senate candidate should have to answer for. His Muslim name isn't a substitute for any of it.
Trump's defense was that holding office entitles him to behave this way. The presidency, reduced to permission to be an asshole. At least that particular policy was clearly explained.
Donald Trump went to Dalton, Georgia, on October 16 and explained why he keeps calling Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed Mohammad. His defense, captured in a C-SPAN clip reproduced by the Daily Caller, was a little lesson in presidential authority:
“I’m the president of the United States. I can call you whatever the hell I want.”
Well, that settles the health care debate. The man has naming privileges.
During the same rally at Dalton Municipal Airport, Trump offered a broader tip. If you cannot remember the name of somebody from the Middle East, Reuters reports that he recommended you “just say 'Mohammad'.” He put the odds at roughly 65 percent and claimed, “I’ve never been wrong.” He …
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Bo French, the Republican nominee for Texas railroad commissioner, repeatedly called for public executions in older social media posts uncovered by CNN's September 28 KFile investigation. One February 18, 2025 post, responding to discussion of DOGE, put the demand plainly: "I want more than perp walks. I want public executions." CNN also documented May 2020 posts invoking death for people French called Obama conspirators, including a reference to a former president. The reporting describes a pattern across several posts, not a single word detached from an otherwise ordinary policy discussion. These are not tweets French wrote on September 28. That is the date of the investigation. The newer set dates to February 2025; the Obama-related set to May 2020. A current candidate's older statements remain relevant, but they should not acquire a new timestamp just because somebody finally assembled the record. There is an authentication point here, too. CNN says archived records connect French's earlier and current account handles through the same numeric user ID. The outlet could not establish whether he deleted the newer posts himself or whether the ...
Palm Bay Councilmember Chandler Langevin is executive director of the American Restoration Coalition, a Florida Republican organizing group whose links to white nationalist networks were detailed in Jordan Green's September 30 Raw Story investigation. The group's strategy includes winning positions on local boards. This is a story about access to government, not merely ugly talk on the internet. Green reports that ARC members promoted Patriot Front and that Palm Bay Planning and Zoning Board member Jonathon Norris attended the 2017 Unite the Right rally. He also reports that Langevin appointed Norris. Those findings belong to Raw Story's investigation; this article does not claim to have independently identified Norris in rally footage. The public-office part can be checked separately. Palm Bay's September 17 council agenda lists Langevin among the councilmembers and recognizes Norris for one year on the Planning and Zoning Board. That is a municipal record, not a reporter's characterization of an online affiliation. The distinction matters because a board seat is authority. Planning decisions concern the place people actually live. I do not need to invent a discriminatory vote ...
Matt Walsh objected to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders's welfare advertisement because its supposedly lazy recipient was a young white man named Brad. In his September 28 post, the conservative commentator suggested the villain should instead be a character called Shaniqua. He was not leaving the racial meaning to our imagination. Walsh wrote: "Republicans don't have the balls to do this ad with 'Shaniqua' as the villain." He argued in the same post that Black people were far more likely to receive welfare and treated that as a reason to ...
President Donald Trump told Minnesotans to fight back against Somali immigrants in an October 8 Truth Social post. He described Minnesota as being taken over by that community, blamed it for statewide disorder and offered federal help. This was the president speaking to the public, not an anonymous account getting carried away in the replies. Here is the instruction in his own words: "The people of Minnesota must fight back." The post ends by demanding that Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey request federal assistance. That is a ...
Rep. Mike Collins's Georgia Senate campaign appointed county organizers who had held leadership roles in American Patriots USA, a group founded by former Klan leader Chester Doles. FOX 5 Atlanta's October 7 report, following a Daily Beast investigation, identifies Joshua Mote and Michael Boggus. The campaign says their past associations were unknown to it. Mote had been the group's vice president; Boggus its state director. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies American Patriots USA as a white nationalist hate group. These are former roles in that organization, not evidence that ...
Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana said Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed sleeps in a Bin Laden jersey at an October 9 campaign appearance with Republican nominee Mike Rogers. AP reports that Rogers laughed. El-Sayed is Muslim. Apparently that was enough material for the visiting senator. The clip shared by reporter Julian Andreone places Kennedy's line in a discussion of AIPAC's involvement in the race. The operative words are worth keeping: "sleeps in a Bin Laden jersey" A jersey identifies a fan. Kennedy's joke therefore asks the audience to picture ...
Trump's administration proposes up to 17,500 refugee admissions for fiscal year 2027, primarily for white South African Afrikaners. His signed decision added 10,000 places for Afrikaners in fiscal year 2026. Global Refuge reported on September 22 that all but three of the 12,904 refugees admitted that year as of its statement came from South Africa. The preference has a paper trail.
A note on the file first. This roll call is about Republicans: officials, candidates, the party. Laura Loomer is none of those on paper. She's a far-right activist. She's here anyway, because Donald Trump has publicly praised her and met with her at the White House, and because a Republican member of Congress looked at what she wrote and said the party owns it. We'll take her word for it. Angie Nixon is a state representative from Jacksonville and Florida's Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, running against Republican Sen. ...
Most entries in this roll call have a quote at the center: somebody said the thing. This one doesn't. The administration has figured out the quieter version, which is to stop looking. The Associated Press laid out the pieces on September 25. Here they are in order. In May 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to stop examining "disparate impact": policies that look neutral on paper but land much harder on one racial group. This summer, the Education Department followed through and rescinded the regulation that ...
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