Jon Stewart continued his efforts to drag Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed across the finish line on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Echoing a recurring theme on the show, Stewart tried to pass off concerns about El-Sayed and his radical associations as “Islamophobia.”
Stewart played a clip of Trump at a recent rally where he declared, “I'm here to keep a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a United States Senator.”
Apparently, Stewart thinks “Muslim Brotherhood” and “Muslim” are the same thing because he reacted by pulling out a cigarette lighter and waving it around as if he was at a concert, “Oh, shit! Oh! He's playing ‘Scary Muslim’ from 2016! Oh, shit! Oh, ‘Scary Muslim!’ Yeah! Woo! Woo! I love the hits! Do ‘Sharia Law!’”
In a second clip with multiple jump cuts, Trump was shown explaining, “Abdul Mohamed El-Sayed…He wants our country to go to Sharia Law… He would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate. I want him to have a metal detector!”
Stewart began his response with a digression about elderly senators before accusing Republicans of Islamophobia, “He's such a good dude. By the way, it is actually true for those of you who don’t know. The Senate—the House has metal detectors. The Senate does not have metal detectors. If they had a metal detector, every other hip would be setting it off. Nobody would get in the building. It would just be—so far, the Republican closing argument is nice asses and Islamophobia.”
It is just a fact that El-Sayed has defended the Muslim Brotherhood in the past. Like so many other parts of his record, he is now trying to convince voters that he has changed, but voters are not obligated to believe those campaign reversals are genuine.
Here is a transcript for the October 26 show:
Comedy Central The Daily Show
10/26/2026
11:05 PM ET
DONALD TRUMP: I'm here to keep a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a United States Senator.
JON STEWART: Oh, shit! Oh! He's playing "Scary Muslim" from 2016! Oh, shit! Oh, "Scary Muslim!" Yeah! Woo! Woo! I love the hits! Do "Sharia Law!"
TRUMP: Abdul Mohamed El-Sayed. [jump cut] He wants our country to go to Sharia Law. [Jump Cut] He would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate. I want him to have a metal detector!
STEWART: He's such a good dude. By the way, it is actually true for those of you who don’t know. The Senate-- the House has metal detectors. The Senate does not have metal detectors. If they had a metal detector, every other hip would be setting it off. Nobody would get in the building. It would just be—so far, the Republican closing argument is nice asses and Islamophobia.
