Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign mocked White House aide Natalie Harp in a social-media post about President Donald Trump’s reported renaming of Lake Ontario. The post altered a White House page for First Lady Melania Trump to replace her name with Harp’s, prompting criticism from conservative commentators, who described it as sexist, misogynistic and overly focused on political figures’ spouses.

The exchange followed an earlier El-Sayed post aimed at Second Lady Usha Vance, after Vice President JD Vance questioned El-Sayed’s viability as a Senate contender. El-Sayed’s campaign had not responded to Fox News Digital by publication; Harp, a longtime Trump supporter, has recently faced media attention and online speculation about her relationship with the president.