Michigan’s U.S. Senate race is putting a fresh spotlight on Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s association with Hasan Piker after footage circulated of the prominent left-wing streamer delivering a profanity-laced attack on the Constitution and the United States.
El-Sayed is running against Republican Mike Rogers, and his connection with Piker has become another point of contention surrounding his candidacy.
Piker is one of the internet’s most recognizable left-wing political commentators. He is also the nephew of Cenk Uygur, founder of The Young Turks, where Piker previously worked before building his own large streaming audience.
People are afraid of Hasan Piker because he is a fiery preacher who puts people first, over money and paper.
“I wipe my ass with the [US] Constitution… Motherf*ck the [US] Constitution and motherf*ck this country [the USA], you stupid b*tch!”
This was in response to a chatter… https://t.co/eQfHt9gQRC pic.twitter.com/iCFHThlCs9
— Hasan’s Old Tweets (@HasansOldTweets) August 10, 2026
Now comments from Piker about the Constitution are receiving renewed attention.
Addressing his viewers, Piker made his contempt for the document unmistakable.
“You can f*** and s*** me from the back, ok?” Piker said while discussing constitutionality.
He then became even more explicit.
“I f*** the Constitution. I wipe my a** with the Constitution. It’s a f***ing piece of paper, dude.”
And Piker wasn’t finished.
“Motherf*** the Constitution and motherf*** this country,” he said.
There isn’t much ambiguity to parse in those remarks. Whatever argument surrounded them, Piker chose to express himself by explicitly denouncing both the Constitution and the country.
The footage resurfaced on X in response to a Monday Rolling Stone article asking, “Why is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?”
Piker’s ability to generate precisely this sort of controversy is one reason his political relationships can become an issue for candidates who appear with him or seek access to his substantial online audience.
For El-Sayed, the question is particularly relevant because he is seeking a seat in the United States Senate, an office whose members swear an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Association, of course, is not endorsement of every statement another person has ever made. El-Sayed is responsible for his own positions, not every word uttered by Piker.
But political associations routinely receive scrutiny during campaigns, particularly when a prominent ally makes statements directly attacking the constitutional system that a candidate is seeking office within.
Piker’s popularity also reflects how political media have changed.
Long-form streamers and podcasters can now command audiences comparable to, and sometimes larger than, traditional political programs. Candidates consequently have an incentive to appear in those spaces and cultivate relationships with their hosts.
Piker occupies one such position on the political left. He has built an enormous online following while advocating socialist and Marxist ideas and delivering political commentary in a deliberately provocative style.
The comparison sometimes made between Piker and Joe Rogan, however, has limits. Their politics, formats and approaches differ substantially, even if both illustrate the ability of individual internet personalities to command large audiences outside traditional television news.
The immediate controversy is considerably simpler.
Piker said he wipes himself with the Constitution, called it merely a “piece of paper,” and followed that by condemning both the document and the United States in explicit terms.
Those aren’t interpretations supplied by a political opponent. They are Piker’s own words.
