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Trump targets Abdul El-Sayed's wife in racist Truth Social frenzy The president stayed up late posting again and singled out the wife of newly anointed Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, posting a picture of El-Sayed and his wife, who wears a hijab, next to a picture of himself and Melania, with the caption "two Very Different America's" [sic]. El-Sayed was asked about the racist post by Jake Tapper this morning, and the clever physician completely flipped the script on him.

"He's right. One in which your overlords are two people who don't like each other but joined 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 thing. So yes, you've got two different visions of America.

Sara and I are running because when we look our daughters in the eye, Amelie and Sirin, we want them to believe that they're every bit as able to have a better future than the one that they could have had under the Trump administration!"

BOOM. Mic drop. We knew that Trump would start pushing this racist garbage, but El-Sayed has shown he is no stranger to this kind of bigotry and is very skilled at deflecting these attacks and staying on message – and that's how we break through the noise and the hate.

"Neighbor kidnapped on this block by ICE"

You might know him from a thread where he was getting wowed by free appetisers in a Mexican restaurant.

Firstly: He is doing a bit pretending to be a wandering samurai. It's a joke and his posts are all made up. This is very obvious if you actually look at his account and website:

He does purport to be Japanese but based on some of the other content he posts there's reason to believe he's British.

Which brings me to my second point: his Samurai content is interspersed with posts like this:

And this:

Yeah this is also the guy from the truck thread going around. That's what prompted this post and in retrospect I should have said so explicitly.

He claims he just uses AI to translate his posts from Japanese. He also says the art on his website isn't AI generated. I think he is full of shit on both counts.

I only gave a couple of examples but even on a brief look through his twitter it was apparent that he posts a LOT about UK politics to the point where he's quite patently British. He is a Restore supporter which is a party that split away from mainstream far right party Reform due to feeling they weren't right wing enough.

It might not surprise you to hear he does not seem to know shit about Japan? Both the salsa story and the truck story failed the smell test for people who are familiar with Japan. There's also a story about going to a potluck where he seemingly couldn't come up with a single Japanese dish for the character to cook??