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.

Alexander Willis · August 9, 2026

Reported by Alexander Willis at Raw Story on August 9, 2026, under the headline "Flailing Trump ally stuns with wild misspelled admission." The piece catalogs how Rep. Nancy Mace responded to the backlash over her August 7 "trojan horse" post by quote-tweeting one of her critics and embracing the label she was being accused of.

The sequence, as Raw Story lays it out: Mace first posted on her official account that "every single Muslim holding public office in America is a trojan horse and a threat." Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) called that "absolutely disgusting and dangerous" and urged Republicans to denounce Mace's "blatant Islamophobia." Mace then quote-tweeted Jayapal from her personal @NancyMace account and doubled down:

"She's right. I don't want to get stabbed or blown up by a suicide bomber - nor do I want to hear the call to prayer five times a day in the United States of America.

Total Islamaphobe here."

She's right. I don't want to get stabbed or blown up by a suicide bomber - nor do I want to hear the call to prayer five times a day in the United States of America.

Total Islamaphobe here.
Rep. Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) August 9, 2026

Rep. Nancy Mace's August 9, 2026 X post, quote-tweeting Rep. Jayapal's criticism, captured by Maceopedia. View the original post.

Raw Story reported that Mace's original Friday "trojan horse" post drew more than 7.6 million views. The article notes that Mace lost her South Carolina gubernatorial bid to a Trump-backed Republican, and places her posts alongside similar anti-Muslim rhetoric from other Republicans it names, Reps. Andy Ogles and Randy Fine, and reporting on an Israeli-government influence campaign spreading Islamophobic content online. Those characterizations and the broader framing belong to Raw Story; the primary artifact here is Mace's own dated public post, including her spelling of "Islamaphobe."

Sources & related coverage

Rep. Nancy Mace, @NancyMace on X: "Total Islamaphobe here." (August 9, 2026)
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, @RepJayapal on X: "This is absolutely disgusting and dangerous." (August 8, 2026)
Raw Story, Alexander Willis, "Flailing Trump ally stuns with wild misspelled admission" (August 9, 2026)
Maceopedia, "The satire swap that exposed Mace's anti-Muslim post" (August 7, 2026)
Maceopedia media log, Nancy Mace calls every Muslim holding public office a "trojan horse" (August 8, 2026)

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.