President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a stark warning that violence in the United States would “go back on” what he called the “radical left,” a comment critics denounced as dangerous and tantamount to incitement.When Trump was asked by a reporter whom he held responsible for what was described as “an uptick in left-wing violence” following an attack on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, the president immediately blamed his political opponents. (The official motive is still being investigated, and officials have said the suspect sought to kill federal agents.) “Radical left rhetoric. The radical left is causing the problem,” said Trump. “They’re saying things and they’re really dumb people. I mean, I look at [Texas Rep. Jasmine] Crockett, I look at some of these people. They’re very low-IQ people actually. But the radical left is causing this problem.”Trump then said it’s “not the right” but “the radical left and it’s going to get worse and ultimately it’s gonna go back on them. I mean, bad things happen when they play these games.”He continued:“And I’ll give you a little clue. The right is a lot tougher than the left but the right’s not doing this, they’re not doing it. And they better not get them energized because it won’t be good for the left and I don’t want to see that happen either. I’m the president of all the people. But the radical left is causing this. The radical left Democrats are causing this problem and it gets worse. It gets worse and it’ll be a point where other people won’t take it anymore, and that will not be good for the radical left. And we don’t want that.”Watch here:Trump: Bad things happen when they play these games. I'll give you a little clue, the right is a lot tougher than the left, but the right is not doing this. And they better not get them energized because it won’t be good for the left. pic.twitter.com/zJ3XNGxS9g— Acyn (@Acyn) September 25, 2025Critics condemned Trump’s remarks as a thinly veiled threat and an invitation to violence and warned that it could heighten tensions.Tough talk from a guy traumatized by a faulty escalator…— ⭐️ Merrily awaiting ⭐️ (@MerrillLynched) September 25, 2025Notice, he just admitted that the right is more violent than the left. Within the word salad, that's what he actually said— FxA 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 (@FxAhmed) September 25, 2025Well, this is the same guy that sat on his ass for 3 hours watching his rw tough guys attack the capital hoping they could delay the certification of the election. So yeah, he doesn’t give a fuck about America or Americans 🇺🇸Worst president EVER!— Jack Miller III (@jackUSAmiller) September 25, 2025Threats against Americans who refuse to listen to Trump!— Coffee® (@CandyCoffiee) September 25, 2025President just casually threatening his own people and it's just another Thurs. How far we've fallen.— Matt Zion (@MattZionWE) September 25, 2025This sounds an awful lot like DT is trying to incite violence.— scb writer (@SCBeckner) September 25, 2025He's pitting Americans against each other and funding other corrupt governments. Are we fucking winning yet?— Susie F (No Kings!)🌻🕊🖖✌🌈👩🏫♋ (@susiefreathy) September 25, 2025Is Trump really stoking this political ideology fire more? This rotting pumpkin really wants to see civil unrest pour into the streets as right and left fight each other. This disgrace is not fit for office.— Milenka~ (@MilenaAmit) September 25, 2025Yeah so tough they whine about stopped escalators.So tough they fake bone spurs.So tough they cry when their teleprompter fails.So tough they're afraid of the homeless, immigrants, brown people, accents, black folks, college, trans, LBGTQ, teachers, professors, science, TRUTH.— sherijr (@sherijr) September 25, 2025Trump plays tough with domestic opponents and allies and appeases dictators.What could possibly go wrong?— stephen albert (@stephenalbert11) September 25, 2025Bad things happen when the left plays games like winning elections or reading books.— The Tactical Dogout (Why don’t you follow? 🤔👀📲) (@Shivansh_k_c) September 25, 2025Close