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Mace Greets El-Sayed's Senate Primary Win: 'Every Single Muslim Holding Public Office in America Is a Trojan Horse'

Quote card with Rep. Nancy Mace's August 7, 2026 X post calling every Muslim public officeholder a trojan horse.
Quote card with Rep. Nancy Mace's August 7, 2026 X post calling every Muslim public officeholder a trojan horse.

Rep. Nancy Mace posted on her official congressional X account on August 7, 2026, days after Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate:

"Every single Muslim holding public office in America is a trojan horse, and a threat to both national security and our republic.

We refuse to be silent."

Two days later, replying to British commentator Owen Jones, she added:

"If not wanting to be blown up, stabbed, or rammed by a car by a radical Islamist in the United States of America makes us Islamophobes, then so be it."

Both are Mace's own words, posted publicly from @RepNancyMace and still independently verifiable at the original posts, linked below.

Coverage credit: Comedian and broadcaster David Feldman read both posts verbatim on The David Feldman Show, in a segment he titled "Nancy Mace's Insanity And Why Dems Think It's 2020 All Over Again". The characterization in that title is Feldman's own; the primary artifacts are Mace's dated public posts.

Video: The David Feldman Show, "Nancy Mace's Insanity And Why Dems Think It's 2020 All Over Again." Watch on YouTube.

The timing

The tweets came at a specific point in Mace's political calendar. On June 9, 2026, she finished fifth in South Carolina's Republican primary for governor, the race she had left her House ambitions behind to run. Two months later, El-Sayed, a physician and former Detroit health director who is Muslim, won Michigan's Democratic Senate nomination. Mace's "trojan horse" post followed within days.

No retraction

Mace has not publicly retracted either tweet. The record points the other way: pressed live on CNN on August 9, she defended the posts, and that same day she shared her own clip of the interview with the line "Islam has no place in Western society." Maceopedia has cataloged that sequence, with screenshots and the original post links, in three earlier dispatches:

Readers can compare Feldman's on-air reading against the original posts themselves.

Sources & related coverage

Mace Greets El-Sayed's Senate Primary Win: 'Every Single Muslim Holding Public Office in America Is a Trojan Horse': image 1
  • August 9, 2026 · Dispatch

    Raw Story: Mace embraces the 'Islamaphobe' label while doubling down on Muslim posts

    Raw Story covered Rep. Nancy Mace's August 9, 2026 escalation of her anti-Muslim posts. After critics condemned her August 7 claim that every Muslim public officeholder is a 'trojan horse,' Mace quote-tweeted Rep. Pramila Jayapal's criticism and doubled down on her personal @NancyMace account, writing that she did not want to be 'stabbed or blown up by a suicide bomber' or 'hear the call to prayer five times a day' and signing off 'Total Islamaphobe here' (her spelling). Raw Story reported the original trojan-horse post drew more than 7.6 million views.

  • August 8, 2026 · Dispatch

    Nancy Mace calls every Muslim holding public office a 'trojan horse'

    MEAWW covered two August 7, 2026 posts from Rep. Nancy Mace's official X account, one saying every Muslim holding public office in America is a 'trojan horse' and another saying New York City is being 'overrun' by people who want to see the country burn. The entry reproduces the posts as primary-source artifacts and links the original X posts.

  • August 7, 2026 · Dispatch

    Mace calls every Muslim officeholder a 'trojan horse,' then declares: 'Total Islamaphobe here'

    On August 7, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace wrote that every Muslim holding public office in America is a 'trojan horse' and a threat to national security and the republic. The next day, the satire account The Babylon Bibi posted an altered image replacing Muslims with Jews and adding a fake headline saying Mace had been removed from office. MEAWW fact-checked the removal claim as false, but the satire exposed the point: the same attack became instantly recognizable as bigotry when the targeted religious minority was changed. As criticism mounted, Mace doubled down, quote-tweeting a critic and signing off 'Total Islamaphobe here' (her spelling).

  • August 4, 2026 · Dispatch

    "60,000 Muslims Invade Spain" on Mace's official House account, then a no-comment repost of a meme naming Omar and Tlaib

    Between July 31 and August 4, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted about Muslims across both of her X accounts. On August 4, on her personal account @NancyMace, she reposted, with no caption of her own, a meme from the account @RagingAmericans reading 'Radical Islam will destroy this country just like it's destroyed every other country it's touched if we don't put a stop to it!!' laid over a photo collage that includes Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two sitting Muslim members of Congress. Four days earlier, on July 31, she used her official, taxpayer-funded congressional account @RepNancyMace to post an office-produced graphic carrying the U.S. House seal and headlined '60,000 MUSLIMS INVADE SPAIN,' with her own text describing 'around 60,000 Muslim "migrants" from Morocco' as 'criminals' whose 'culture is incompatible with Western civilization.' This dispatch reproduces both posts, distinguishes the words Mace wrote herself from the meme she amplified without comment, and links the July 27 post that anchors the pattern.

  • July 27, 2026 · Dispatch

    "Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims": Mace's July 27 post draws 53,500 likes

    On July 27, 2026, at 7:04 PM ET, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on her personal X account, @NancyMace: 'Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims.' The post drew roughly 53,500 likes and 7,440 replies. It is the latest entry in a pattern of Mace statements about Muslims and Islam that runs from a June 2026 H-E-B endorsement through a November 2025 'Stop Muslim radicals' fundraising email to her own Muslim Brotherhood legislation, alongside her repeated line that opposing 'radical Islam' and Sharia law 'isn't Islamophobia.'

  • August 9, 2026 · Dispatch

    On CNN, Mace says Muslims should 'go back to that country' as her 'trojan horse' furor spirals

    What began as a single August 7, 2026 post from Rep. Nancy Mace's official account, calling every Muslim public officeholder a 'trojan horse,' spread over 72 hours into a national story. On August 9, Mace defended the claim live on CNN Newsroom, where anchor Omar Jimenez read her the First Amendment and Article VI's ban on religious tests for office. Across the segment Mace said she did not want to hear the Muslim call to prayer 'five times a day in an American city,' warned that 'our granddaughters' would be 'wearing burkas to school,' and told Jimenez that Muslims should 'go back to that country of origin.' She closed by saying she would 'ban all immigrants from those countries.' Minutes later she posted the clip herself with the line 'Islam has no place in Western society.' This dispatch reproduces the exchange verbatim as transcribed by five outlets, embeds Jimenez's own posted video, and catalogs the reaction across the political spectrum.