The President of the United States, Donald Trump, once again launched a strong attack against communism this Wednesday with unfiltered language: "With communism, everything goes to hell. It's true. A terrible thing," he stated in a clip shared by the official Rapid Response 47 account of the White House on X.
The statement was made during a speech in which Trump defended the American political and economic system, warning that any ideological shift towards communism is destined for failure: "As long as we maintain our current thinking, our current system, we are going up. If you go the other way, nothing ever works."
Trump himself acknowledged, with a casual tone, that his vocabulary earned him a reprimand at home. "My wife gets annoyed when I do that. She told me: you were doing very well and then you had to use a foul word," he recounted, referring to Melania Trump.
The statement is not an isolated outburst, but rather the most recent expression of a systematic anti-communist campaign that Trump has been intensifying since at least November 2025, when he officially proclaimed an "Anti-Communist Week" in the United States, arguing that communism has caused more than 100 million deaths in history.
The tone noticeably escalated starting in June 2026, with the midterm legislative elections in November on the horizon.
On July 4, during the events marking the 250th anniversary of independence, Trump described communism as a "deadly threat" and "the greatest threat" to the country, surpassing the two world wars, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11. At the National Mall, he stated: "We don't want communists in our country. It never worked and it never will."
On July 12, he took a further step by directly accusing the Democratic Party of having "skipped socialism and fallen directly into communism."
According to an analysis by Reuters, Trump's team invoked communism 81 times in just two weeks during July 2026 and is testing the message in focus groups to assess its electoral effectiveness.
The strategy seeks to portray Democrats as a radical threat and shift the public debate from economic issues to an ideological battle.
Preliminary polls indicate that the anti-communist rhetoric energizes the Republican base, although it is less effective among independent voters and young people.
Trump summarized his position with a phrase that encapsulates the core of his campaign: "You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to the United States. You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You can't be both."
Filed under: