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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).

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

Rep. Nancy Mace wrote on her official congressional X account on August 7, 2026: "Every single Muslim holding public office in America is a trojan horse, and a threat to both national security and our republic." A day later, a satire account changed the target from Muslims to Jews in an altered image. That swap is the story: it showed how the original anti-Muslim claim works by making the same sentence instantly recognizable as bigotry when pointed at another religious minority.

Reporting credit: Covered and fact-checked by MEAWW. The underlying Mace posts are primary X artifacts; the altered image was posted by The Babylon Bibi, an X account whose profile describes itself as satire.

What Mace wrote

Mace's August 7, 2026 X post. View the original post.

Screenshot of Mace's August 7, 2026 X post calling Muslim public officeholders a trojan horse.

Screenshot captured from the live X post by Maceopedia. View the full-size file.

The altered version

The Babylon Bibi posted an image-only satire item on August 8, 2026. X's public oEmbed identifies the post as coming from The Babylon Bibi and dates it August 8. The image changed the religious target in Mace's sentence from Muslims to Jews and added a fake headline: "Nancy Mace Removed From Office After Posting Bigoted Tweet About Jews."

The Babylon Bibi's image-only satire post. View the original post.

Satire image from The Babylon Bibi replacing Mace's Muslim target with Jews and adding a fake removal headline.

The altered image was satire, not an authentic Mace post. It is included here as secondary evidence of the viral claim MEAWW fact-checked. View the full-size file.

MEAWW rated the removal claim false. Mace was not removed from Congress over the altered image, and MEAWW reported that it found no matching post on Mace's official X account targeting Jews. The key public fact remains Mace's own post about Muslims, which is still independently verifiable from her account.

Why the substitution matters

The satire did not invent the sentence structure. It changed the target.

Mace's original statement treated every Muslim public officeholder in America as a security threat to the republic. The altered image replaced that group with Jews, and the result was quickly understood as an intolerable claim requiring fact-checking. That contrast is the point of the artifact: the same sentence construction, applied to a different religious minority, made the underlying generalization harder to ignore.

This is not a House Ethics finding. But the House's own Code of Official Conduct supplies the relevant standard for public-office context. Rule XXIII says that a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House must behave at all times in a manner that reflects creditably on the House and must adhere to the spirit and letter of House rules.

The response

The Jew-swap framing was not only a satire-account artifact. It became the main criticism of Mace's original sentence.

Glenn Greenwald wrote that if the "exact same statement" had replaced "Muslim" with "Jew," the speaker's career would be destroyed and their families, banks, communities, and employers would be pressured. Mehdi Hasan wrote that the political and media class talks about antisemitism every day while "prominent Republican members of Congress" were saying Mace's line with "zero pushback."

Screenshot of Glenn Greenwald's August 7, 2026 X post arguing that replacing Muslim with Jew would have produced career-ending backlash.

Glenn Greenwald's August 7, 2026 response. View the original post.

Screenshot of Mehdi Hasan's August 8, 2026 X post criticizing the lack of political and media pushback to Mace's anti-Muslim post.

Mehdi Hasan's August 8, 2026 response. View the original post.

Jay Bookman wrote the sentence with "Jew" substituted for "Muslim" and said both statements were either unacceptable or acceptable because they were "mirror images of each other." Jonathan Rose made the same universal-standard point in a direct reply: if the sentence sounds wrong about Jews, he wrote, the same standard should apply universally. Dilly Hussain also amplified the Jew-swap framing.

Screenshot of Jay Bookman's August 8, 2026 X post saying the Muslim and Jew versions are mirror images.

Jay Bookman's August 8, 2026 response. View the original post.

Screenshot of Jonathan Rose's August 8, 2026 X reply saying the same standard should apply universally.

Jonathan Rose's August 8, 2026 response. View the original post.

Screenshot of Dilly Hussain's August 8, 2026 X post amplifying the Jew-swap version of Mace's sentence.

Dilly Hussain's August 8, 2026 response. View the original post.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi answered from a religious-freedom frame. She wrote that the country protects the right to believe freely and that no politician can turn faith into a question of American identity. Another account, This You?, contrasted Mace's post with her own 2021 condemnation of Rep. Lauren Boebert's anti-Muslim attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar, when Mace said racist tropes and remarks were disgusting.

Screenshot of Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi's August 8, 2026 X post saying faith cannot become a question of American identity.

Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi's August 8, 2026 response. View the original post.

Screenshot of This You?'s August 8, 2026 X post contrasting Mace's 2021 condemnation of Boebert's anti-Muslim remarks with Mace's 2026 post.

This You?'s August 8, 2026 response, including the 2021 Mace contrast. View the original post.

Alex Cole pointed to Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is Muslim and served in the Trump administration as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and wrote that Mace's blanket claim would also label Trump's own CMS administrator a "Trojan horse."

Screenshot of Alex Cole's August 7, 2026 X post pointing out that Dr. Oz is Muslim and worked for Trump.

Alex Cole's August 7, 2026 response. View the original post.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal called Mace's post "absolutely disgusting and dangerous" and said Republicans should denounce "blatant Islamophobia." Jayapal added a message to Muslim communities across America: "I will always stand with you."

Screenshot of Rep. Pramila Jayapal's August 8, 2026 X post calling Mace's remarks blatant Islamophobia.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal's August 8, 2026 response. View the original post.

California State Senator Scott Wiener answered both posts at once, attaching screenshots of the "trojan horse" post and the New York "invasion" post. He wrote that Mace was "on yet another bender demonizing Muslims and advocating to strip them of full citizenship," and called her "a vile person."

Screenshot of California State Senator Scott Wiener's August 8, 2026 X post calling Mace a vile person for demonizing Muslims.

California State Sen. Scott Wiener's August 8, 2026 response. View the original post.

The follow-up post

Three hours after the "trojan horse" post, Mace wrote that New York City was being "overrun" and called it "an invasion."

Mace's second August 7, 2026 X post. View the original post.

Screenshot of Mace's August 7, 2026 New York City invasion X post.

Screenshot captured from the live X post by Maceopedia. View the full-size file.

Mace doubles down

Mace did not walk the post back. On her personal @NancyMace account on August 9, 2026, she quote-tweeted Rep. Pramila Jayapal's criticism and embraced the label she was being accused of. She wrote 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 in the United States of America," and signed off: "Total Islamaphobe here" (her spelling).

Mace's August 9, 2026 post, quote-tweeting Rep. Jayapal's criticism. View the original post.

Screenshot of Mace's August 9, 2026 X post embracing the Islamaphobe label while quote-tweeting Rep. Jayapal.

Mace's quote-tweet of Rep. Jayapal, captured logged-out by Maceopedia. The card shows Jayapal's original criticism quoted beneath Mace's reply. View the full-size file.

Raw Story's Alexander Willis reported the exchange under the headline "Flailing Trump ally stuns with wild misspelled admission," and wrote that Mace's original "trojan horse" post had drawn more than 7.6 million views. Raw Story placed the posts alongside similar anti-Muslim rhetoric from other Republicans it named, Reps. Andy Ogles and Randy Fine, and reporting on an Israeli-government influence campaign spreading Islamophobic content. Those characterizations belong to Raw Story; Mace's own dated posts, including her spelling of "Islamaphobe," are the primary record.

Video coverage

The Economic Times compiled the episode into an eight-minute segment, "'Muslim holding public office in US is Trojan horse': Nancy Mace faces heat over controversial post," published August 9, 2026. It reproduces both of Mace's August 7 posts, walks through the online backlash, and quotes several of the responses cataloged above, including Rep. Pramila Jayapal's "absolutely disgusting and dangerous," the "replace Muslim with Jew" argument, and California State Sen. Scott Wiener's "vile person" reaction. The segment also notes Mace's separate proposal to bar anyone born outside the United States from serving in Congress or as a federal judge (a resolution that would reach members such as Reps. Jayapal and Ilhan Omar), and it closes with a House hearing exchange led by Rep. Chip Roy questioning witnesses about Sharia law.

Video: The Economic Times, "'Muslim holding public office in US is Trojan horse': Nancy Mace faces heat over controversial post," August 9, 2026 (8:57). Watch on YouTube.

Sources & related coverage

This dispatch distinguishes the authentic Mace posts from the satire image and the false removal claim. It republishes Mace's own public words, labels the altered image as satire, and attributes the fact-check conclusion to MEAWW.

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