The U.S. State Department published a video on its official Instagram account featuring audio of Donald Trump declaring that communism is "a deadly threat to American freedom" and "the greatest threat to our country."
The clip, shared by the account @statedept, features a snippet from the speech that Trump delivered in front of the Mount Rushmore monument in South Dakota on the night of July 3rd, the eve of the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States, in which he referred to communist ideology as a threat greater than that posed by World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11.
The institutional reissue of the message—two months after the original event—underscores that the anti-communist offensive of the Trump administration is not mere passing rhetoric, but a sustained political stance.
In that speech, Trump was categorical: "Communism is a deadly threat to American freedom. It is the greatest threat to our country, even more than World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11. And we are not going to let this happen to us. Believe me, we will not allow it."
The president also issued a direct warning to those sympathetic to Marxist ideology: "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 cannot be both."
The publication from the State Department is part of a broader institutional campaign that centers on Cuba.
On July 20, Secretary of State Marco Rubio presented the report “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism”, a document of approximately 100 pages that accuses the Cuban regime of having sponsored ideological subversion, espionage, and radical leftism against the United States for more than six decades.
Rubio was emphatic in presenting the report: “For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the main supporter of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States.” The Secretary of State also described Cuba as “the only country that has implanted and embedded spies in our system without even paying them,” and accused certain sectors of the press and academia of sympathizing with Havana due to “ideological affinity.”
The Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla rejected the report, deeming it a "slanderous pamphlet" and accused Rubio of using it as a pretext for a potential military aggression against the island.
This rhetoric has concrete executive backing. Trump signed Executive Order 14380 in January, declaring Cuba an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to national security, and in May, Executive Order 14404, which expanded sanctions by freezing assets of regime officials and their adult family members. By August, Washington had designated five entities and eight individuals under this sanctions framework.
The anti-communist campaign of the Trump administration officially began in November 2025, when President proclaimed the "Anti-Communist Week" from the 2nd to the 8th of that month, linking the ideology to over 100 million deaths in the 20th century. The State Department's report summarizes it with a statement that defines the scope of the accusation: "Cuba's assault on the United States was never, at its root, a dispute over economic policy or sovereignty... it was a revolution against Western civilization itself."
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