Donald Trump has heard them all at this point. Nothing will surprise him.
And a radical leftist candidate called Trump a disgusting name.
Michigan leftist Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed went on national television Sunday and branded President Trump a “barbarian in the White House.”
The remarks came during an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation, where the Democrat doctor tried to flip criticism aimed squarely at him during the Republican National Convention.
Host Weijia Jiang opened by noting that El-Sayed had become a frequent target at the RNC.
Speakers ranging from Trump and Vance to Mike Rogers and House Speaker Mike Johnson all named him.
Johnson’s line was particularly sharp: “We know who the Mamdanis and the El-Sayeds are, but it’s the Democrats in the swing seats who say one thing and then join forces and vote with the socialists that they’re afraid of. That is the dangerous part. They’re the ones who have let the barbarians inside the gate.”
El-Sayed did not shy away from the attention. Instead he fired back with an attack.
“Well, I’ll tell you this: the barbarian is in the White House, and we’re seeing the consequences of that right now,” he said.
He then listed grievances that included gas prices, grocery costs, tariffs, a supposed “war with Canada,” and difficulty seeing a doctor.
The candidate claimed Republicans avoided those topics at their convention so they could focus on him personally.
“They’re going to point to me. They’re going to talk about me. They’re going to point to my name. They’re going to point to our faith,” El-Sayed continued.
“And at the end of the day, they’re doing that so that you don’t pay attention to the fact that you are being nickled and dimed by the barbarian in the White House and by a set of public policies that are not in your interest, but in his.”
El-Sayed, a self-described progressive with a record of left-wing activism, is the one Republicans correctly identified as part of the radical fringe now influencing the Democratic Party.
Speaker Johnson’s warning about socialists being welcomed inside the gates was not abstract. It described candidates like El-Sayed who push policies far outside the American mainstream.
