{"id":846359,"date":"2026-08-07T04:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846359\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T04:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:14:12","slug":"detroit-local-jack-white-pushes-back-after-trump-calls-the-city-third-world-as-he-attacks-abdul-el-sayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846359\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit local Jack White pushes back after Trump calls the city \u2018third world\u2019 as he attacks Abdul El-Sayed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> has drawn the ire of locals in one of America\u2019s biggest cities after he described it as \u201cthird world\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump railed against the city of Detroit<\/a> in a Truth Social post as part of a series of screeds against Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump dances after speaking at an event at the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)\u00a0AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein<\/p>\n

\u201cWayne County (Detroit) in Michigan is one of the most corrupt voting areas in the United States, if not the World,\u201d Trump wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is strictly Third World!<\/p>\n

\u201cMiracles happen in Wayne County, including more votes being cast than there are voters, by a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s claims of more votes than voters in Wayne County is untrue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Radical Left Socialist has a real shot, and don\u2019t discount all of those fake mail-in ballots that will \u2018surprisingly\u2019 show up at the last moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGet ready for another Rigged Election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s attack on Detroit drew a lengthy reply from famed Detroit musician Jack White<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/p>\n

Jack White in concert at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney in 2012.\u00a0Photographic<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s a tip when attempting to listen to the orange f\u00fchrer; when he says the phrase \u2018by a lot\u2019 it\u2019s a dead giveaway that he\u2019s lying,\u201d White wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, he did get one thing right though, I\u2019m from Wayne County, Michigan and miracles do happen there, just not the kind he thinks.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine living there and supporting this clown after he insults you like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former lead singer of the White Stripes, White is well-known for his Detroit roots.<\/p>\n

Trump has been repeatedly taking aim at El-Sayed, a progressive outsider who won Michigan\u2019s primary election on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed built his campaign around universal health care, taking on Washington corruption and his opposition to sending money to Israel.<\/p>\n

Trump labelled El-Sayed \u201ca Communist loser who hates Jews and Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Abdul<\/p>\n

Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan.\u00a0AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson<\/p>\n

Trump has posted about El-Sayed five times in little more than 24 hours.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed\u2019s victory in the primary was a serious blow to establishment Democrats.<\/p>\n

The progressive populist weathered tens of millions of dollars of attack ads from backers of Congresswoman Haley Stevens, a more moderate choice.<\/p>\n

Contrary to Trump\u2019s accusations about Detroit in relation to El-Sayed, the city was one of his weakest areas in the primary election. While El-Sayed eked out a win statewide, Stevens won the city of Detroit comfortably.<\/p>\n

Democratic pundits are fretting that El-Sayed\u2019s left-wing ideology will cost them in Michigan, a state that has oscillated between Democrats and Republicans in recent presidential races.<\/p>\n

\"Detroit,<\/p>\n

Aerial view of downtown Detroit at sunset in Michigan, USA\u00a0nna\\sswain<\/p>\n

Polling has shown El-Sayed in a close race or trailing Republican Mike Rogers in the race.<\/p>\n

But much of that same polling showed a far different result in the primary election than the actual results this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people like JD Vance or Donald Trump or Mike Rogers who want to define America as being too small to include some kinds of people, and they point to my name, they point to my faith, they try to insinuate that somehow I\u2019m less American because of those things,\u201d El-Sayed said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want America to be small. I believe America is big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in the Detroit suburbs to Egyptian parents, El-Sayed would be the first Muslim senator in US history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has drawn the ire of locals in one of America\u2019s biggest cities after he described it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-846359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}