Terror-adjacent socialists habitually lie about how tall they are, analysis finds
Abdul El-Sayed, the left-wing Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, was brutally height mogged by pro-terrorist influencer Hasan Piker during a campaign event this week, raising serious questions about the “pocket-sized” candidate’s fitness for federal office.
El-Sayed, a Rhodes Scholar who also sympathizes with terrorists, was listed at 5’9″ and 195 lbs during his undistinguished career on the University of Michigan’s club lacrosse team. In 2006, El-Sayed failed to register a single statistic despite appearing in 15 games. Lacrosse is widely regarded as a trashy sport that serves as a natural refuge for society’s most loathsome creatures.
Piker, by comparison, appeared almost comically large in photos from the campaign event, where he and El-Sayed answered questions about Israel’s nefarious influence and the anti-colonial resistance of Hamas. A glowing New York Times profile published in 2025 described the radical streamer as “6 feet 4 inches tall and built like a professional athlete.” Of course, this is the same publication that mistakenly referred to NATO as the “North American Treaty Organization” in a recent print edition.
An extensive Washington Free Beacon analysis found ample evidence to suggest that El-Sayed and Piker are lying about their actual size.
In September 2015, Piker was photographed alongside former NFL wide receiver Drew Carter, who was officially listed at 6’3″ throughout his career. A visual analysis determined that Piker was at least 1-2 inches shorter than Carter. However, because Piker’s feet were not visible in the photo, we were unable to rule out the possibility that he was wearing lifts or standing on a box.
In April 2025, Piker interviewed then-candidate for mayor Zohran Mamdani in a New York City smoothie café. A USA Today report published earlier this year estimated Mamdani’s height at 5’9″. The estimate was based on a viral TikTok post of a woman who said she rejected Mamdani on a dating app because of his diminutive stature. “His height was listed as either 5’11 or 5’10 and younger me knew that meant he was most likely 5’9,” the post read.
Screenshots from the interview, in which both men were seated at a table, reveal that Mamdani is roughly an inch taller than Piker, which would make Piker approximately 5’8″—eight inches shorter than advertised.
A subsequent comparative analysis determined that Piker is about 10 inches taller than El-Sayed, which would make the U.S. Senate hopeful approximately 4’10″—a prohibitively diminutive stature for a male politician running for higher office. He is what Gen Z internet slang would call a “manlet.”
According to our analysis, El-Sayed is even shorter than Barbara Mikulski, the self-described “Lilliputian” Democrat who served as U.S. Senator from Maryland for three decades until 2017. Mikulski, who stood just 4’11” tall, is best known for leading the “pantsuit rebellion” of 1993.
Bottom line: Radical socialists can’t be trusted to tell the truth about anything involving numbers. Bernie Sanders, for example, claims to be six feet tall. The evidence suggests otherwise.
