Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestylePresident Donald Trump issued a 400-word tirade on Truth Social, condemning communism and characterizing socialists and communists as "animals" who pose the greatest threat to the United States. The outburst followed primary election victories by progressives and democratic socialists in New York City, which Trump claimed would lead to national failure and "squalor." Trump accused communists of violently attacking religions, particularly Christianity, and positioned himself as a global protector of Christians. His rhetoric drew parallels to the McCarthy era's anti-communist suspicion, with the administration previously screening immigrants for "anti-American activity" based on a 60-year-old law. The president's current stance contrasts with his past positive remarks about Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist whose ideas he once described as similar to his own. In full‘They will kill your people’: Trump warns of ‘godless Communists’ in 400-word Red Scare manifestoThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

President Donald Trump dismisses significance of election wins for three New York progressives endorsed by Zohran Mamdani but relishes defeats suffered by Dan Goldman and George…

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Trump has targeted the Democratic Socialists of America after the party won big in New York and Washington, D.C., elections this month.

‘I’d be the Greatest Communist in History,’ the president wrote on Truth Social

Trump has repeatedly conflated democratic socialists and communists; no communist are running on the Democratic ticket.

US President Donald Trump accused the Democratic left of being "hardcore, godless communists" in a divisive, politicized speech Friday full of falsehoods about his perceived foes…

US President Donald Trump intensified his political messaging at the Faith & Freedom Coalition in Washington, D.C., criticising Democrats and NYC Mayor after Zohran Mamdani-backed…

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President Donald Trump said that "ruthless communists will attack all religions, but in particular Christianity."

President Donald Trump on Friday seized on the electoral success of several democratic socialist candidates to ramp up his attacks on the Democratic Party, claiming it was being…

President seizes on wins by Mamdani-backed candidates to warn darkly of threat to ‘traditional American way of life’

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Republican strategists believe rise of Mamdani could present opportunity to tag Democrats with most extreme views of the left – key US politics stories from Friday 26 June

Seeking to energize his base ahead of November's midterm elections, President Donald Trump warned that "godless communists" taking over the Democratic Party pose "the most serious…

President pivots from joking about communism to warning evangelical voters about "godless communists" Democrats