Democratic Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed’s ingenious plot to seduce Trump goes viral
Abdul El-Sayed is using a fake gold card to convince Donald Trump to back his plan for universal healthcare.
The Michigan senator-elect, who will be sworn in January as the first Muslim American in the chamber, posted the gold ‘TrumpCare’ card to X on Thursday.
El-Sayed addressed it to the president by name, promising coverage to every American from cradle to grave.
The design lifts from Trump’s own $1 million Gold Card visa, which the government sells on a website showing a gilded card stamped with his face, his signature and a bald eagle.
‘I know you like to put your name on stuff,’ El-Sayed told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday while making his pitch on air.
Asked whether he was serious about surrendering the branding of the American left’s signature healthcare policy, he said he was absolutely serious: ‘I don’t care what it’s called.’
His card pitch borrows from a tactic used by Trump’s closest aides, who feed him fabricated images of himself to sway his policy decisions.
Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte talked Trump through an AI meme casting him as a Christ-like healer before the president posted it to Truth Social in April.
Abdul El-Sayed is using a fake gold card to convince Donald Trump to back his plan for universal healthcare
El-Sayed addressed it to the president by name, promising coverage to every American from cradle to grave
Natalie Harp, Trump’s personal secretary, runs a similar strategy by trailing the president with a portable printer.
El-Sayed arrives in Washington having beaten Mike Rogers, the former congressman Trump endorsed.
Trump spent the campaign calling him a communist, using his full given name the way he once used Barack Obama’s.
The president also posted a side-by-side of himself and Melania against El-Sayed and his wife, Dr. Sarah Jukaku, captioned ‘Two VERY DIFFERENT America’s.’
Trump campaigned for a decade on repealing Obamacare and came within one vote of it in 2017. However, the late Sen. John McCain joined two Republicans to sink a skinny repeal bill 49-51.
He has promised a replacement ever since without producing one.
El-Sayed’s plan proposes a single government plan that covers every American from birth to death with no copays, premiums or deductibles.
El-Sayed made the same offer to Mehdi Hasan at Zeteo last week and to Trump directly on X this week, and whether it ever reaches the Resolute Desk may come down to who prints it out.
