{"id":2642393,"date":"2026-08-09T12:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-sayed-says-donald-and-melania-dont-like-each-other-after-trump-post\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T12:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:41:55","slug":"el-sayed-says-donald-and-melania-dont-like-each-other-after-trump-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-sayed-says-donald-and-melania-dont-like-each-other-after-trump-post\/","title":{"rendered":"El Sayed says Donald and Melania &#8216;don&#8217;t like each other&#8217; after Trump post"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fel-sayed-says-donald-and-melania-dont-like-each-other-after-trump-post%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2642393&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Abdul el Sayed, the Democratic candidate for Michigan&#8217;s open Senate seat, publicly responded to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/final-straw-hollywood-reporter-sources-say-disney-wanted-to-fire-carano-in-november\/\" title=\"\u2018Final Straw...: Hollywood ...orter Sources Say Disney Wanted To Fire Carano In November\">recent social media post<\/a> by Donald Trump that displayed a side-by-side photo of Trump and Melania Trump at an inaugural ball and el Sayed sitting at a restaurant with his wife wearing a hijab, captioned &#8220;Two VERY DIFFERENT America\u2019s.&#8221; Trump\u2019s post appeared to criticize el Sayed\u2019s Muslim faith and political stance, prompting el Sayed to criticize Trump\u2019s marriage and question the authenticity of the President and First Lady\u2019s relationship. <\/p>\n<p>El Sayed emphasized that Trump engages in divisive messaging, contrasting it with his vision of America as a place where families can thrive. He also addressed Trump\u2019s focus on affordability issues, criticizing the administration\u2019s policies amid ongoing conflicts like the iran war. <\/p>\n<p>Regarding accusations of antisemitism, el Sayed defended his support for Jewish communities, expressing admiration for Judaism and his personal experiences with Jewish traditions. He also criticized pro-Israel lobbying efforts like AIPAC for their influence on U.S. foreign policy. Despite financial backing from important Democrats, el Sayed&#8217;s campaign remains competitive against republican mike Rogers, whom he is preparing to face in the upcoming election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abdul-el-sayed\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"23138\">Abdul el Sayed<\/a>, the Democratic nominee for an open <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"8765\">Senate<\/a> seat in Michigan, fired back at President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> for posting a photo that juxtaposes the first couple with the progressive candidate and his spouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117063162955258981\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117063162955258981\">Truth Social post<\/a> that Trump made late Saturday night showed Trump and first lady <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/melania-trump\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"696\">Melania Trump<\/a> smiling while attending one of the three inaugural balls last year, compared to el Sayed sitting at a restaurant with his wife, who\u2019s wearing a hijab. The post\u2019s caption read: \u201cTwo VERY DIFFERENT America\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4680396\/el-sayed-trump-melania-dont-like-each-other\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>El Sayed says Donald and Melania \u2018don\u2019t like each other\u2019 after Trump\u2019s couple photo post<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4680373\/el-sayed-call-obama-michigan-senate-campaign\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>El Sayed hails \u2018inspiring\u2019 call with Obama, hopes former president hits campaign trail<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4680344\/ed-case-house-democratic-primary-hawaii\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Rep. Ed Case defeats progressive rival in Hawaii Democratic House primary<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The message suggests Trump is attacking the Muslim Democrat for his political and religious beliefs. El Sayed responded to that post in an interview on Sunday morning, taking a shot at the president\u2019s marriage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYeah, he\u2019s right,\u201d he said on CNN\u2019s <em>State of the Union<\/em>. \u201cOne in which your overlords are two people who don\u2019t like each other but join in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you, or two people who genuinely love each other, enjoyed some pancakes together, want to come together to build the kind of America where they can raise a family and know that that family is going to have the good things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo yes, you got two different visions of America,\u201d he added before criticizing Trump on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/affordability\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"21532\">affordability<\/a>. \u201cCan you afford your gas? Can you afford your groceries? Do you believe when you look your kids in the eye that they\u2019re going to have a better future than you did?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Affordability has been a sore issue for Trump amid the prolonged <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"100\">Iran<\/a> war, which Democrats have sought to use to their advantage in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/midterm-elections\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"308\">midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Sayed reiterated his claim that the president and first lady don\u2019t truly love each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cActually, Sarah and I like each other,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know about the first lady and the president, but from what I\u2019ve heard, it\u2019s a bit of a rocky road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since el Sayed\u2019s primary win last week, Trump has ramped up his political attacks against the progressive Democrat who, the president claims, \u201chates Jews and Israel.\u201d El Sayed has been accused of being antisemitic for campaigning with left-wing Twitch streamer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hasan-piker\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"22479\">Hasan Piker<\/a>, who himself has been accused of antisemitism over remarks favoring Hamas, and opposing unconditional U.S. aid to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"219\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In rebutting Trump\u2019s antisemitism accusations, el Sayed pointed to his admiration of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI love and revere Judaism and the Jewish people. I believe they\u2019re a light unto the world,\u201d he said. \u201cI grew up in a community that had a large Jewish population. I was so grateful to get to be invited to Seder and to Shul and to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m really honored for what I learned and got to share with my Jewish sisters and brothers, but they are not the same as AIPAC in Israel,\u201d he continued. \u201cAIPAC is an organization that spent what, $30 million to beat me, so that they could have one vote, one more vote in the U.S. Senate to guarantee that our taxpayer dollars would be sent abroad to subsidize a foreign government\u2019s military to do the worst things: genocide, apartheid, take us into wars we have no business fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4680373\/el-sayed-call-obama-michigan-senate-campaign\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4680373\/el-sayed-call-obama-michigan-senate-campaign\/\">EL SAYED HAILS \u2018INSPIRING\u2019 CALL WITH OBAMA, HOPES FORMER PRESIDENT HITS CAMPAIGN TRAIL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Sayed\u2019s stance on the pro-Israel lobby was in stark contrast to that of Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), who benefited from such donations during her primary campaign. However, the money wasn\u2019t enough to beat el Sayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With endorsements from former Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"748\">Kamala Harris<\/a> and other high-profile Democrats, including Stevens, the physician-turned-candidate is gearing up for the general election in which he will face Republican nominee and former Michigan Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-rogers\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1022\">Mike Rogers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Sayed responds to Trump\u2019s attack with defiant remarks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":2642394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-collage-z60h6nros-1786290103912-e1786291244549.jpg?1786276846&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32319,81734,32423,5894,32364],"class_list":["post-2642393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-donald-trump","tag-el-sayed","tag-melania-trump","tag-politics","tag-social-media"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-collage-z60h6nros-1786290103912-e1786291244549.jpg?1786276846&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642397,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642393\/revisions\/2642397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}