{"id":2619697,"date":"2026-06-26T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-communism-is-the-biggest-threat-facing-america\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:41:56","slug":"trump-says-communism-is-the-biggest-threat-facing-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-communism-is-the-biggest-threat-facing-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says communism is the biggest threat facing America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-communism-is-the-biggest-threat-facing-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2619697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump criticized Democrats at the faith &#038; Freedom Coalition\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-top-democrats-too-afraid-to-fight-socialist-insurgency\/\" title=\"...: Top ... too &#039;afraid&#039; to fight socialist insurgency\">2026 policy conference<\/a>, warning that thay are at risk of being overtaken by communists. He described communism as a severe threat to the United States, claiming it targets religion, especially christianity, and promotes violence and assassinations. Trump linked communism to global issues, including conflicts in Nigeria, and warned it could lead to the country\u2019s decline reminiscent of a cancer spreading through society. He accused Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer of being too afraid to oppose socialists and suggested they are not fighting back against the perceived threat.trump also highlighted recent election results in New York where socialist-backed candidates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-22-trump-backed-candidates-win-primaries-in-ohio-and-indiana\/\" title=\"All 22 ...-Backed Candidates Win Primaries in Ohio and Indiana\">won primaries<\/a>, raising concerns about the influence of socialism within the Democratic Party. he emphasized the importance of vigilance against communist ideology and defended capitalism as vital to America\u2019s greatness.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> sharpened his political knives against Democrats, portraying the party as on the precipice of being overrun by communists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump took the opportunity presented by his appearance at the Faith &#038; Freedom Coalition\u2019s 2026 policy conference on Friday to underscore the risk created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-operatives-increasingly-skeptical-of-trump-endorsed-candidates\/\" title=\"Republican Operatives Increasingly Skeptical Of ...-Endorsed Candidates\">candidates endorsed<\/a> by New York Mayor <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/zohran-mamdani\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11802\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> who usurped two sitting members of Congress this week and Democratic leadership for not being more forceful in its response.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4626912\/trump-says-democrat-leaders-schumer-too-afraid-to-fight-socialist-insurgency\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump says top Democrats like Schumer are too \u2018afraid\u2019 to fight socialist insurgency<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4626896\/trump-targets-lisa-murkowski-save-america-act\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump targets Lisa Murkowski over SAVE America Act impasse<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4626704\/trump-tariff-european-countries-digital-services-tax\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump threatens \u2018100% tariff\u2019 on European countries that implement new digital services tax<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese are not social democrats, these are hardcore, godless communists,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cThis is the most serious threat to our country since its existence, in my opinion, 250 years ago. This is a major threat to our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cognizant of his audience, Trump underscored the risk communism poses to religious freedoms, repeating that \u201cruthless communists will attack all religions, but in particular Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >communist countries attack religions violently<\/a>,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s part of their deal. \u2026 They will kill your people, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re about. They want to end religion. They have to end religion because their ideology doesn\u2019t work if you have strong religion people like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He linked communism to Nigeria, where the U.S. military has intervened against Islamist militant groups targeting Christians, though the conflict does not involve communist forces.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo I\u2019m saving Christians all over the world,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the victim of three assassination attempts, Trump also criticized communism for encouraging other forms of violent, extreme activism aside from the persecution of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry to say, but assassinations of those who oppose them is a very important element of their ideology,\u201d he said. \u201cAssassination is a big deal for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump twice, too, connected communism to cancer, predicting \u201ceverybody will continue leaving New York and as this spreads throughout the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVery much like an uncontrollable form of cancer,\u201d he said. \u201cThe country itself will be taken down. It will be Third World, strictly Third World, and it\u2019s happened many times before to very big and very powerful countries. But it\u2019s not going to happen to the United States of America because communism really is the past and freedom is the future. That\u2019s what we all want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump specifically name-checked Senate Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chuck-schumer\/\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY) for being \u201cafraid\u201d to scrutinize socialists, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is speculated to be considering a challenge against him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDemocrats aren\u2019t fighting back,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why they\u2019re dumb. They\u2019re not fighting that, they\u2019re afraid. I watch Schumer, he\u2019s afraid to fight. \u2026 They\u2019re afraid they\u2019re going to lose their election if they even think about saying anything bad about this new breed of sick people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also joked that he could have been \u201cthe greatest communist\u201d because the ideology \u201cis very easy to sell\u201d but added that \u201cit destroys everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Road\u00a0to\u00a0Majority\u00a0Conference attendee John Spagnola, 75, of Clearwater, Florida, agreed that it was important to maintain \u201cconstant vigilance\u201d against the threat of communism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can be undermined as a country if you\u2019re not aware of what\u2019s occurring, and Trump has been very aware, and I\u2019ve been impressed with his perception of what\u2019s going on in our country right now,\u201d the head of the Veteran Strategic Solutions told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cCommunism is dangerous, and if we don\u2019t take proactive actions before you know it, we\u2019re going to be in a very vulnerable position to be controlled and maligned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brian Montgomery, 37, who plans to run for South Carolina\u2019s Greenville-anchored 3rd Congressional District in 2028, concurred, contending, \u201cWe were fundamentally built on a capitalistic society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis utopian concept of communism and socialism is, it tears away the fabric of what made America great in the first place,\u201d Montgomery told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cThe big problem with socialism and communism is you have the inherent greed in every human, and we have to avoid something like that, and the checks and balances truly come from a capitalistic society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s emphasis on communism comes after New York\u2019s primary elections on Tuesday, in which three Mamdani-backed candidates, Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, won primaries. Valdez beat the handpicked successor of Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), while Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) were defeated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4625964\/america-250-latest-front-political-division\/\"><strong>AMERICA\u2019S 250TH BECOMES THE LATEST FRONT IN COUNTRY\u2019S POLITICAL DIVIDE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mamdani, Valdez, and Avila Chevalier all identify as socialists, with their success concerning more centrist Democrats since elsewhere in the country their party\u2019s candidates are trying to win in battleground districts. Lander was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America but left the organization in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, who has had a warm relationship with Mamdani since their White House meeting earlier this year, offered pointed criticisms of the  mayor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-gop-sen-david-perdue-in-runoff-battle-with-democrat-jon-ossoff\/\" title=\"Ga. GOP Sen. David Perdue in runoff battle with Democrat Jon Ossoff\">socialist agenda<\/a>, including a rent freeze that will transform New York\u2019s apartment buildings into \u201cghettos and slums.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump warns Democrats face communist threat at 2026 event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2920,"featured_media":2619698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26177683107612.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[33567,5607,50611,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2619697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-american-politics","tag-communism","tag-national-security-2","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26177683107612.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619702,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619697\/revisions\/2619702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2619698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}