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The president Donald Trump launched a double attack against the Democratic Party this Saturday via his Truth Social platform, accusing the Democrats of abandoning 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 absolutely right: the Democrats bypassed socialism and fell straight into communism."
"United States 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 his tone and described the Democrats as "radical left lunatics" who "have completely lost their way."
"Hopefully they will rebel and not allow this sick communist ideology to take over the United States!" he added.
The publications are being made at a time of sustained rhetorical escalation.
On July 4, during the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of independence in the National Mall of 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 "expel communism from our shores."
The July 4 speech in Washington was the peak moment of that narrative prior to the publications this Saturday.
On June 29, Trump had described communism as "the greatest threat to the U.S. since World War II", and a day earlier, he had railed against those who "promise everything for free", linking those promises to communism and the Democrats.
The most prominent figure in this narrative has been Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York since January 2026 and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, whom Trump has repeatedly labeled as "100% communist."
The president threatened to cut 7.4 billion dollars in federal funds to the city and stated that Miami would be a "refuge" 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 claimed more than 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, with a 37% approval and a 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."
"What it may be." Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat from Florida, stated that for the first time in her career, she has constituents who fear that the president will cancel the elections or declare martial law.
On Thursday, Trump fired three of the four commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission, a bipartisan agency created in 2002 to distribute federal funds aimed at ensuring secure elections. This move is interpreted by election watchdog organizations as part of a pattern to centralize control over the process.
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