At 11:13 p.m. on Wednesday, the president of the United States logged on to call a Michigan Senate candidate a terrorist sympathizer and get his name wrong. “Mohammed El-Sayed is a terrible Candidate for the Dumocrats,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. The candidate’s name is Abdul. “Mohammed goes back to the days of the Jihad,” Trump added.
Ten minutes later, he moved on to Texas, calling Senate candidate James Talarico “TalaFREAKo” and claiming he was “MISSING IN ACTION” and that “bad rumors are coming out.” This is a normal Wednesday night now. That’s the problem.
What did Trump post about Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico?
El-Sayed is a doctor and former public health official, born in Michigan to Egyptian immigrants. Trump called him a “RADICAL Extremist, Terrorist Sympathizer” and tied him to the streamer Hasan Piker, then wrote, “How’s France doing?” The Daily Beast reported. El-Sayed answered that Trump knows his name is Abdul.
Of Talarico, Trump wrote: “No one has seen him for an extended period of time. Where is he? What is wrong with him? Bad rumors are coming out.” He offered no evidence of any rumors. Talarico replied that he agreed Paxton, Trump’s pick, should debate him: “Ball’s in your court.”
How often does Trump post on Truth Social?
Constantly. NPR analyzed his posts from the first four months of 2026 and counted 2,249, just under 19 a day, the station reported. The Wall Street Journal counted at least 8,800 posts since he returned to office, often in late-night bursts: one Monday this spring, his account posted 55 times between 10:14 p.m. and 1:12 a.m., mostly reposts pushing the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen and calling for Barack Obama’s arrest.
Forbes counted 23 posts in a single hour last Sunday. In January, Poynter noted a 36-minute stretch with 48 posts, including a false claim that Walmart was closing 250 of its California stores; Walmart said it wasn’t true.
What does Trump post about most?
NPR found the top subjects were the midterms, the Iran conflict and the economy. But he posted about the 2020 election 71 times in four months, every one of them repeating the lie that it was stolen. That’s more than he posted about tariffs. He posted 105 times about his legal grievances and 17 times about health care, and more often about comedian Bill Maher (nine) than about American farmers (four).
The BeezLoop Take
It’s easy to treat this as background noise, and that’s exactly what lets it work. These aren’t the rants of a random account. They’re the words of the most powerful person in the country, and they shape what millions of people believe. Calling a Muslim American candidate “Mohammed” and tying him to “the Jihad” isn’t a slip. It’s a signal, and it’s aimed at voters’ fear, a month before an election.
Inventing “bad rumors” about an opponent’s health, repeating the stolen-election lie dozens of times and posting through the night is not how a steady leader behaves. If any employee, any CEO or any 80-year-old relative posted like this, people would be worried, not shrugging. We shouldn’t hold the president to a lower standard than we’d hold them.
The open question: at what point do Republican leaders say out loud that this isn’t normal?
Also on BeezLoop: are Trump’s Truth Social followers real?, and how Fox News sells anger at other Americans.
Sources: The Daily Beast · Forbes · NPR via WFAE · The Wall Street Journal, via Election Law Blog · Poynter · WCCO / CBS Minnesota (video)
