Trump's Neverending War - August 7, 2026

**Cenk Uygur** (0:13)
Welcome to The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola with you guys on what we hope is a lovely Friday evening for everyone. So we've got a lot of news for you, of course, as always. So, Abdul El-Sayed has driven the right wing crazy now, along with the establishment. It's funny how similar they are.
And there is a devastating story out of the West Bank, of course, and we're gonna talk about the hypocrisy of how the mainstream media treats those two different things. If you're killed in the West Bank, it's no big deal at all. You're only a Palestinian or an American.
And then, Israel is a spy in the UN, of course. But one piece of news that is a little bit devastating, Iran might not want a peace deal. If that's the case, buckle up, race for a lot more impacts. Okay, John, we're gonna get started with the Abdul story. I'll get it started and then you're gonna take it from there. Sounds good. Abdul El-Sayed won in Michigan, and that has driven the right-wing media nuts. You're gonna be shocked to find out that they decided to go with a bigoted approach. Wait, is that really fair? Well, let's watch.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:33)
It looks like Abdul El-Sayed, who is an unholy alliance, islamo-fascist and a communist at the same time. He's got the two tools in the toolkit, won the primary by a sliver last night.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:47)
And it scares me as an American citizen to think that after 9-11, this guy's best friend says that America deserved 9-11. And to me, Mike Rogers is the guy that would be the first responder going to help the victims of 9-11. And El-Sayed is the guy that would have been friends of the guys flying the plane. And this is as clear as it gets.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:09)
Look at all these clips.

**Dr. Elliott Morgan** (2:11)
Look at all these clips.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:14)
We don't have time. I mean-

**Dr. Elliott Morgan** (2:15)
Under the idea that all people are created equal, all men, but that only meant certain men.

**SPEAKER_8** (2:20)
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

**Dr. Elliott Morgan** (2:26)
I don't know if that's Arabic or not.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:27)
You dirty bastard.

**SPEAKER_9** (2:29)
You dirty scum, you absolute rat.
You parasite. Abdul El-Sayed is a radical advocate for Muslims including terrorists. But El-Sayed is of course a radical Muslim. He has significant ties to Dearborn, he campaigns there all the time.

**Cenk Uygur** (2:47)
He has significant ties to Dearborn, Michigan.
That's a charge that makes you guilty of something? You know that's inside this country. And nobody in Dearborn did anything wrong. He just says it like a bunch of Muslims that live there. And he says he's a radical Muslim. That makes sense cuz Ben Shapiro is a radical Jew. Wait, you're not allowed to say that, but you are allowed to say whatever you want about Muslims apparently. But mainstream media, John, has been going nuts over these comments.
I'm hearing they haven't and they don't care at all. In fact, they generally join it. And is it possible to be a fascist and a communist at the same time, let alone a made up word like islamofascist, John?

**John Iadarola** (3:31)
I don't even know what some of this is supposed to mean. Yeah, he has, I guess maybe you can be Muslim, but you can't have ties to places where Muslims live in the United States or something. I guess that's automatically bad. You'll know he doesn't say why it's bad, because he doesn't have a reason that it's bad. They call him a radical Muslim. You'll note that they don't show policy positions he has that are radically Muslim. They don't quote him saying anything radically Muslim. He's a radical Muslim because he's a Muslim, and that's the only kind of Muslim that they will allow. It's the only religion that you could just automatically say, not only are you the radical form of that, but you're also a terrorist. Automatically, they're all calling him at the nicest ones say he's a supporter of Islamic terrorism.
Some Laura Loomer just say he is an Islamic terrorist himself. He's a jihadist. I've watched quite a bit of Abdul El-Sayed.
Other than the fact that I know that he is technically Muslim, I've almost never heard him say anything about it. I literally don't know where any of it's coming from, except that their brains have been rotted by identity politics, and that's literally all they have to go with. And so they attack him not only about calling him a radical or whatever, also, by the way, he's a socialist, even though he's not a socialist. They will literally lie about just, he calls himself a capitalist. He's not in the DSA, he wasn't endorsed by the DSA. So they lie about his ideology, they lie about his platform, they lie about his religion. And as you'll see soon, because we're going to get into some more clips, they lie about his literal background and personal history too. It's just lies because they have nothing substantive or accurate based in reality to attack this guy on.