President Donald Trump declared that the United States is “never going to be communist” during a speech at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
“As you know, recently we’ve seen some in our political system attempting to overthrow the timeless American principles and pillars of our liberty and replace them with some of the most noxious ideas in human history; ideas that have been proven false,” Trump said. “Members of Congress and even former presidents have been openly embracing vile creeds such as socialism, Marxism, and straight-up communism.”
“In New York, they’re trying to elect a communist, Zohran Mamdani, the guy who wants to defund the police, take over the stores, and run the stores and have the people hand out goods. And when everything falls apart, it always does; it always works that way; it never has worked any other way, anarchy and dictatorships prevail,” he continued.
“This guy is a communist at the highest level and he wants to destroy New York,” Trump noted. “I love New York and we’re not gonna let him do that. Generations of Americans before us did not shed their blood only so that we could surrender our country to Marxist lunatics on the eve of our 250th year.”
“As President of the United States, I am proclaiming here and now that America is never going to be communist in any way, shape, or form,” he declared. “And that includes New York City.”
Following previous comments criticizing Mamdani, the politician said Trump’s comments “don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you.”
