Trump Doubles Down With Second ‘Mohammed’ Joke In Two Weeks

President Donald Trump reached for the name “Mohammed” again at a Georgia campaign rally, this time folding it into a joke about Middle Eastern names.

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Speaking Friday to supporters inside a hangar at Dalton Municipal Airport, the president told the crowd that anyone unsure of a name from the region could guess and usually land it, according to Reuters.

“You know, I took a lot of heat for calling him Mohammed,” Trump said. “I don’t care. I’m the president of the United States. I can call you whatever the hell I want. I can call you whatever I want, Mohammed.”

Muslim advocacy groups have long accused the president of demeaning their communities, and a report this year from the Council on American-Islamic Relations linked rising anti-Muslim sentiment partly to his immigration enforcement, according to Reuters. (RELATED: Don’t Count Out A Republican Overperformance In November)

Nine days earlier, Trump had aimed the same name at Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee the night before a debate, according to the Associated Press (AP). He called the candidate “Mohammed El-Sayed” and branded him a “RADICAL Extremist, Terrorist Sympathizer” who “goes back to the days of the Jihad,” according to a post on Truth Social.

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Abdul El-Sayed, whose first name is Abdulrahman, answered the next morning. “He knows my name is Abdul. He says it everyday,” El-Sayed wrote on X. The candidate is a Muslim former health official born in Michigan to Egyptian immigrant parents, Fox News reported.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the president’s language bigoted, according to The Hill.

El-Sayed faces Republican Mike Rogers, who carries Trump’s endorsement, for the seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, according to AP. The two held a contentious first debate Oct. 8 in Grand Rapids and will meet again Oct. 21. El-Sayed has trailed in advertising money by close to two-to-one.

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