On August 5, 2017, at about 5 a.m. local time, an improvised explosive device detonated near the mosque, damaging an imam's office and sending smoke throughout the building. No one was hurt in the explosion.[2][4] Mark Dayton, the governor of Minnesota, denounced the attack as "an act of terrorism" during a visit to the mosque.[5] President Trump and the White House were silent on the attack,[6] but Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka suggested it may have been a hoax orchestrated "by the left."[7][8]