Ben Shapiro claims Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, and Cenk Uygur shouldn't be in the country
Shapiro: “None of the people I just mentioned should be in the country. None of them.”
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From the August 31, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): And now, Abdul El-Sayed is claiming that the race is not about a social media person from California. I agree, it's about you, dude. You're the one who believes exactly the same things that Hasan Piker believes. He's a radical, anti-American, Islamist who supports terrorism. I mean, that is who El-Sayed is. The focus on Piker is just a convenient way to avoid the fact that he agrees with Piker. Here is Abdul El-Sayed.
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SHAPIRO: Now, by the way, he is coming back with his own form of taqiyya — he's lying. He said he is walking back--remember those comments where he suggested after a radical Muslim from Dearborn, Michigan drove a truck into a Jewish preschool in the nearby area, he came out and he equated that to the IDF killing a member of Hezbollah, and he said, ‘hurt people, hurt people.' Now he is saying that he, he wants to offer context, quote, “The right medicine at the wrong time, is the wrong medicine." So he doesn't disagree with what he was saying. He just believes that, you know, it was offensive because of when he said it. So once again, always and forever, the West is responsible for the sins of Islam. The West brings it upon itself. It is all blowback always and forever. And this is the prevailing view for people like El-Sayed. It is the prevailing view for Piker, for Cenk Uygur, for Zohran Mamdani, and now for a Democratic Party that has decided that they must fellow travel with these people and basically agree with them. And, meanwhile, the West continues to import these people. None of these people have to be here. Can we just point this out? None of the people I just mentioned should be in the country. None of them. What was the benefit to Abdul El-Sayed's parents coming into the United States? What was the benefit to Zohran Mamdani's parents being allowed into the United States? How about Cenk Uygur's family and Hasan Piker's family. He grew up in Turkey. What has been the the vast boon to the American taxpayer from these people? What has been the great cultural reawakening that has occurred because of these people who despise the country? Again, the goal is to use the freedoms of the West against it, which is why Hasan Piker goes on the Breakfast Club. There is no one more repressive in American public life with regard to targeting political opposition than Hasan Piker. Dude literally wears Mao uniforms. Mao, famous for literally murdering tens of millions of human beings, including people who just disagreed with him during the Cultural Revolution. Piker is perfectly fine with mass murder of political opponents. But now he says the American government is bad because they're targeting activists. Oh, do you mean that the government is deporting people who hate the country? I mean, yes, that is what he means. He doesn't want the government deporting people who hate the country because then people like Hasan Piker wouldn't be let in.