Washington DC - Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed hit back against President Donald Trump's racially-charged social media post by describing his marriage to Melania as "rocky."

In a shocking, racially-charged post to Truth Social on Sunday, Trump compared his and Melania's marriage to that of El-Sayed and his wife Sarah Jukaku.

Trump's post came in the form of a shared image showing Trump and Melania on one side and El-Sayed and Jukaku on the other, under the caption: "Two VERY DIFFERENT Americas."

El-Sayed is pictured under his full name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, echoing similarly racist references to former President Barack Obama, who Trump regularly refers to as Barack Hussein Obama.

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Asked about the post by Jake Tapper during an appearance on CNN's State of the Union program, El-Sayed used the "two very different Americas" claim as an indictment of Trump.

"Yeah he's right," El-Sayed told Tapper. "One in which your overlords are two people who don't like each other, but join in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you."

"Or [an America in which] two people who genuinely love each other, enjoyed some pancakes together, want to come together to build the kind of America where they can raise a family and know that family is going to have the good things," he continued.

"So yes, you've got two different visions of America… Donald Trump's vision is the one you're living in right now. Can you afford your gas? Can you afford your groceries?"

The incident comes less than a week after El-Sayed narrowly secured the Democratic primary nomination for the state of Michigan, beating out establishment pro-Israel candidate Haley Stevens.

"Sarah and I like each other," he said. "I don't know about the first lady and the president, but, from what I have heard, it's a bit of a rocky road."