The president Donald Trump launched a double barrage against the Democratic Party this Saturday through his platform Truth Social, accusing the Democrats of having abandoned socialism to directly embrace communism.
"I often said in my speeches, and on other occasions, that the United States would never be a socialist country, and I was completely right: the Democrats skipped socialism and fell directly into communism."
"America will never be a socialist country!" Trump wrote in the first of his two posts.
In a second message posted minutes later, the president raised the tone and referred to the Democrats as "radical left lunatics" who "have completely lost their way."
"Hopefully they will rise up and not allow this sick communist ideology to take over the United States!" he added.
The publications come at a time of sustained rhetorical escalation.
On July 4, during the events for the 250th anniversary of independence of the United States at the National Mall in Washington, Trump had already stated that American soldiers did not fight communism for it to «rear its ugly head» again, and promised that citizens would «drive communism from our shores».
The July 4th speech in Washington was the most intense moment of that narrative before the publications on Saturday.
On June 29, Trump described communism as “the greatest threat to the U.S. since World War II”, and the day before, he had lashed out at those who “promise everything for free”, linking those promises to communism and the Democrats.
The most noticeable figure in this narrative has been Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York since January 2026 and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, whom Trump has repeatedly referred to as a "100% communist."
The president went so far as to threaten to cut 7.4 billion dollars in federal funds to the city and declared that Miami would be a "sanctuary" for those fleeing the "communist regime" of New York.
In November 2025, Trump officially proclaimed the "Anticommunist Week" from the second to the eighth of that month, stating that communism has taken over 100 million lives throughout history.
The electoral context is crucial for understanding the intensity of the message.
The midterm elections in November 2026 are approaching with Trump's approval rating at its lowest level since January 2025, standing at 37% approval and 61% disapproval. A survey from NBC News indicates that 50% of voters prefer a Democratic Congress compared to 42% who prefer a Republican one.
The Democrats, for their part, have raised their warnings about possible attempts to interfere in the electoral process.
The strategist David Axelrod wrote on X that Trump is "preparing a plan B: doing whatever it takes to win."
"Whatever it is." Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat from Florida, stated that for the first time in her career, she has voters who fear that the president might cancel the elections or declare martial law.
On Thursday, Trump fired three of the four commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission, a bipartisan body established in 2002 to distribute federal funds aimed at ensuring secure elections. This move is interpreted by election monitoring organizations as part of a pattern to centralize control of the process.
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