The president who can’t say his name

Three weeks before Michigan decides whether to send the first Muslim senator to Washington, the president still cannot or will not say the man’s name. “Mike Rogers, the great American Patriot and Republican Candidate for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, completely obliterated Mohammed El-Sayed in the big debate tonight,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after Thursday’s debate. Rogers had skipped it. “Mohammed is a Jihadist lunatic who hates our Country, the Black People of Detroit, and wants to see the U.S. fail.” The candidate’s name is Abdul El-Sayed. Mohamed is his middle name, inherited from his Egyptian immigrant father. He rarely uses it. Yet the president repeats it so relentlessly that it reads less like a mistake than a strategy […]