Members of the Muslim and Arab American community endorsed former President Donald Trump during an event in The Bronx on Thursday morning.
About 20 community leaders and Imams — joined by former Long Island Congressman and 2022 Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin, a Trump campaign surrogate — backed the GOP presidential hopeful in the “little Yemen” section of the Bronx.
“Our communities are fed up with the woke ideology. They are fed up with the indoctrination of their kids,” said Massad Boulos, the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, said after the campaign event for voters with Middle East ties.
“They are making this shift to the Republican Party. This is where their natural place should be and is now,” he told The Post.
Boulos, a Lebanese-born businessman, said the Biden-Harris administration has failed to put an end to the wars in Gaza and Lebanon or help secure the return of all the hostages taken by Hamas following the terror group’s Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of Israel.
“This time around this voice will be heard. They will have a major say in who is the 47th president of the United States,” Boulos said following the get out the vote rally held in a Yemeni restaurant called “Alwaha” on White Plains Road.
“We are lucky to have most of them support President Trump,” he added.
“The endorsements and the support we’ve seen both from the Christian communities and the Muslim communities of the Middle East is just unprecedented.”
Arab and Muslim Americans are key voting blocs in the battleground state of Michigan, where Boulos has appeared with Trump.
“President Trump is honored to receive, accept the endorsement from the Arab American community here in New York City,” Zeldin told the group of supporters in The Bronx.
Karim Elsammak, an airline pilot who was born in Egypt, said at the event that it was “time” to veer away from the Democratic Party.
“It is time to turn the page on the Democratic party that only shows up when they need our vote,” he said.
“It is time to take our rightful place in the party that most aligns with our values and our beliefs. It is time to join the Republican Party.”
