Abdul al-Sayed to Trump: You can call me "Senator" from January Abdul al-Sayed, the American democratic politician, criticized Donald Trump and the policies of the Republicans in his speech after the elections and said: They wanted an American who had no place for some of us; But we know America is big enough for all of us. Donald, I know you had trouble pronouncing my name. So after J. Dee Vance will swear me in in January, you can just call me senator.