WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
  • Abdul Muhammed Al-Sayed mocked Pete Hegseth’s athletic career and dragged Hegseth’s supportive mother into his attack.
  • Hegseth was an all state Minnesota basketball player, high school valedictorian, football wide receiver, and Athletic Hall of Fame inductee.
  • Hegseth chose Princeton over a West Point appointment and earned varsity basketball letters during all four years.
  • He appeared in NCAA and NIT tournaments before graduating from Princeton in 2003 with a B.A. in politics.

Radical Democrat Abdul Muhammed Al-Sayed took an interview with Hasan Minhaj in an ugly personal direction this week, dragging Pete Hegseth’s mother into a rambling attack. He also mocked Hegseth as an athlete who supposedly spent his career sitting on the bench.

The broadside was not limited to Hegseth’s athletic ability. Al-Sayed ridiculed the idea that Hegseth’s parents supported him, even imagining his mother baking a cake and wearing her son’s jersey because he made a team.

Al-Sayed began his locker room comparison by saying, “Pete Hegseth, everybody knows that guy from the locker room .”

He then declared, “He would’ve, you know, he would’ve rode the pine. He probably got to start two games his entire career playing whatever sport he was (in), and it made his life.”

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“And his parents came and cheered so hard for him,” Al-Sayed continued. The remark framed ordinary parental support as something worthy of contempt, with Hegseth’s mother becoming part of the attack.

The actual record presented tells a much different story from Al-Sayed’s imagined benchwarmer routine. Hegseth was an all-state basketball player in Minnesota, served as valedictorian of his high school, and played guard on the basketball team.

Hegseth also played wide receiver in football. His high school later inducted him into its Athletic Hall of Fame, another inconvenient detail for an insult built around the claim that he barely played.

After high school, Hegseth chose Princeton University over a West Point appointment so he could play basketball. He graduated from Princeton in 2003 with a B.A. in politics.

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Hegseth earned a varsity letter during all four years as a guard on Princeton’s men’s basketball team. At approximately 6 feet to 6 feet 1 inch and 170 pounds, he appeared in both NCAA and NIT tournaments.

Al-Sayed contrasted that record with his own childhood account, saying, “And, as a kid whose parents never came, right, and started every game, part of me is just like, bro, I feel bad for you.”

He continued, “Somebody told you you were a lot better than you really are. Like, there’s something about being a brown kid whose parents, like, you know, no matter what you do, you’re never enough…”

The attack then turned into a broader theory about parental expectations. Al-Sayed said, “…So what that means is that you never take yourself too seriously.”

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“You’re like, I’m never gonna be enough. Right?” he added, using his own experience to contrast himself with the supportive family life he attributed to Hegseth.

Al-Sayed returned to Hegseth’s mother with an elaborate image of her celebrating her son. “So you’re just like, oh, But for him, the very fact that he made the team, his mom was making cake, she was wearing his jersey, she had a cake made for him.”

“You know the type,” Al-Sayed said. He then added, “So I’m like, bro, you grew up thinking that you were somehow special, but you are not.”

“And you have been living off that fume for the rest of your life,” he continued. The insult depended on portraying Hegseth as mediocre despite the high school honors, multiple sports, Princeton basketball career, and tournament appearances listed in his record.

Al-Sayed closed the riff by asking, “Could you imagine what we would’ve become if we had supportive parents who just uplifted us? For being mediocre?”

The sneering attack managed to mock Hegseth’s mother for supporting her child while badly missing the mark on his athletic history. Al-Sayed imagined a benchwarmer, but the record presented describes an all-state athlete, four-year varsity player, and eventual Athletic Hall of Fame inductee.

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