President Donald Trump delivered a forceful, nationally televised rebuke of communism Friday during an Independence Day event at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, warning that the ideology represents a “mortal threat to American liberty.”
Speaking one day before the nation marked its 250th anniversary, Trump described communism as a greater danger to the United States than the World Wars or the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The president used the July 3 address to warn of what he described as a resurgence of communist ideology in the United States. He tied that concern directly to immigration and newcomers who, he claimed, embrace political beliefs fundamentally opposed to American freedom and prosperity.
Trump also drew a sharp distinction between patriotism and Marxist ideology.
“You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America,” Trump told the crowd. “You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.”
Although Trump did not identify individual political figures by name, his remarks were widely viewed as an attack on Democratic socialist candidates and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party following recent victories in several key primary elections.
The speech also served as a rallying cry ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
Trump urged Congress to approve his SAVE America Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote. He also called for the elimination of the Senate filibuster as part of an effort to maintain Republican control.
The president connected his opposition to communism with his administration’s hardline approach to immigration, promising supporters that the United States would “vanquish communism” and quickly remove or expel those who adhere to ideologies he characterized as anti-American.
Trump’s remarks drew criticism from civil rights advocates and political opponents, who accused him of using the nation’s semiquincentennial celebration to attack his political rivals as “evil” and “godless.”
Critics also argued that his speech echoed the polarizing rhetoric of the Red Scare era during the 1950s.
Others pointed to the location of the address, noting that Mount Rushmore sits in the Black Hills, land that was seized by the federal government from the Sioux Nation in 1877. Critics accused Trump of using the location to promote what they described as a curated and exclusionary version of American history.
Trump, however, presented the speech as a defense of American liberty, patriotism and national identity, drawing a firm line between those values and the communist ideology he said threatens the country.
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When I was in the military our job was to kill the F-ing commies. Now democrats are the F-ing commies.
Unfortunately our public’ schools teach just the opposite, they are one of our big problems. They teach kids to hate the USA, while never ever giving an example of a better country, because there is no other country like ours.
It is amazing how much sht comes out of this idiots mouth.
Ya, Trump also had an imaginary conversation with Teddy Roosevelt recently. Hahaha!
This anti-commie shtick (by the way Susan is a Commie) is a likely buildup for further aggression against our neighbor Cuba. What’s weird is the communist countries don’t go around subverting and attacking all the other countries like the so called democratic countries do all the time.
Trump just got humiliated by Iran and now he wants his own bay of pigs. Stupid billionaire.
Interesting factoid, Marxism got its ideals from the New Testament. Mathew and Acts I think. I’ll have to re-read those.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” Karl Marx (a jew).
Communist countries can and do attack other communist countries.
The classic example was in the late 70s when the Soviet Union and Communist China came damn near close to trading nukes.
China and Vietnam have gone to war Vietnam and Cambodia have gone to war. All are communist countries.
No one with an even a partially functioning brain , truly believes that Susan Collins is a Communist .
I guess when the little trolls have worn out all the other mean names like fascist , racist , Nazi , and poo face , they are going to call her exactly what they are
Thats the democrat play book page one .
Accuse your opponent of the exact things you are in fact doing .
Democratic Socialists of America …..The REAL Commies .
Go home Lenny .