Donald Trump was accused of “straight-up racism” over a late Wednesday Truth Social attack on Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

The president began by referring to El-Sayed, who currently leads Republican rival Mike Rogers by a narrow margin in polling, as “Mohammed El-Sayed” and branding him “a terrible Candidate for the Dumocrats.”

Trump wrote:

“While his opponent, Mike Rogers, is an extremely good one, Mohammed goes back to the days of the Jihad. He is a RADICAL Extremist, Terrorist Sympathizer, and no different from his best friend, America Hating Hasan Piker.

“Mohammed’s Values are not exactly those of Michiganders, or those of our Great United States of America!” Trump fumed.

El-Sayed is “WRONG for Michigan, and WRONG for America,” he added.

It was the second time in as many days that Trump had invoked “Jihad” while targeting El-Sayed.

On Tuesday, the president lashed out at Fox News over its coverage of Democratic candidates, singling out El-Sayed in particular.

“FoxNews spends more time covering the Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates than they do the good old fashioned Republicans, the people that have saved America, and are making it great again,” he wrote. “All they talk about is Dumocrat Jihadists like El-Sayed, with his softball interview by Martha MacCallum, and the like.”

El-Sayed has not yet responded to Trump’s latest attack.

Critics on social media, however, did:

This is just absurdly racist. Like, even more blatantly racist than the Obama monkey video. https://t.co/bNFawh6nEG

Blatant Islamophobia and his stupid and ignorant fans who have probably never even met a Muslim eat it uphttps://t.co/UbdBmaSqzQ

Really sick and vile stuff https://t.co/toArBRTtuq

insane racism https://t.co/cUhEFV3gPb

The desperation is palpable pic.twitter.com/Is5B5wIitd

What an absolute disgusting bigot https://t.co/8MTF56Ulal

lol this is just straight up racism. didn't work in the primary though so  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/8oXcIgCBK5

There is no candidate named Mohammed El-Sayed running anywhere in America.Trump is so bigoted he went right to Mohammed to attack Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.He couldn't even get the first name right.

Ohh he is Mohammed now? Really scraping the bottom for that one. https://t.co/NjyjXlSAAG

Extremely disgusting, yet completely expected from Trump https://t.co/HvDkRkeAJ3

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