{"id":10956,"date":"2026-11-05T16:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=10956"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:55:16","slug":"abdul-el-sayed-mocks-trump-with-pointed-remark-after-historic-michigan-senate-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=10956","title":{"rendered":"Abdul El-Sayed mocks Trump with pointed remark after historic Michigan Senate win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abdul El-Sayed Makes History as First Muslim U.S. Senator, Fires Back at Trump and Vance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democrat Abdul El-Sayed made history on November 3, defeating Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan to become the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old thanked supporters despite attacks targeting his faith and identity.<\/p>\n<p>During his victory speech, El-Sayed delivered pointed messages to President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who criticized him during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Vance, he joked about the irony of the vice president swearing him into office in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJD, habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you\u2019re constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Then he turned to Trump, who had mocked his name, with a response:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAfter JD swears me in in January, you can just go on and call me senator.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His victory marks a historic milestone in American politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul El-Sayed Makes History as First Muslim U.S. Senator, Fires Back at Trump and Vance Democrat Abdul El-Sayed made history on November 3, defeating Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan to become the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. The 42-year-old thanked supporters despite attacks targeting his faith and identity. During his victory speech, El-Sayed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10957,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions\/10957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}