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Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., fired back after left-wing host Hasan Piker criticized her for going on Bill Maher’s show while failing to appear on his Twitch live stream.
“I’ve said over and over that I have to call the balls and the strikes, whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia … so that’s what I’ve tried to do, since he got to Michigan,” Slotkin told POLITICO’s Adam Wren.
“There are a lot of invitations that I didn’t take, and every politician has to choose…” he added.
Wren pressed Slotkin about what “strikes” Piker had made with him, prompting him to shout out “blasphemous” comments he made against Orthodox Jews and his earlier suggestion that America “deserved 9/11.”
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., left, is seen during a vote at the US Capitol on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025.; Hasan Piker speaks on stage during Politicon 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Oct. 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Politicon)
“I don’t speak anymore, he calls me ‘stupid’ every week,” she said.
“So, what normal person would choose to go to a show where someone calls you ‘stupid’ every ten days?
“It won’t be something I do.”
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Michigan Senator Abdul El-Sayed poses for a photo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. (Evan Cobb/The Washington Post)
Slotkin also said he was “never invited” to appear in Piker’s content.
Slotkin was also criticized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for appearing on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
The organization demanded that he apologize and denounce Maher’s “long history of Islamophobia and anti-Arabism.”
The Michigan Democrat’s comments come after Piker’s controversial meeting with Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at Michigan State University on Tuesday, in which, while speaking to a POLITICO reporter, he listed him as a senator “[doesn’t] I know who I am.”
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Hasan Piker, broadcaster and creator, attended a press conference on the third day of the Web Summit Qatar 2026 at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center in Doha, Qatar, on Feb. 3, 2026. (Nushad Thekkayil/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“I mean, this double standard exists in American politics. Islamophobia often times are not considered at all. “Bill Maher is not only an Islamophobe, but he has also shown the fight against Blackness all the time, but at the end of the day, he represents the same political forces in this country that are in line with the principles of the establishment, therefore, there is no question about participating in his show,” said Piker.
In 2019, Piker said, “America deserved 9/11.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Piker for comment, but he did not respond.
Fox News’ Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
