False2026-10
What is circulating
“At a campaign rally in Port Huron, Michigan, on 25 October 2026, Trump called Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed "a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member."”
Claimed by Donald Trump · official statement
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim Pants on Fire. El-Sayed is a U.S. citizen who has never advocated military action to promote Islam and has disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood; the claim rests on a 2012 statement he signed with 45 other Egyptian Americans backing then Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, which experts described as partisan support for Morsi, not an endorsement of the Brotherhood.