'They will kill your people': Trump warns of 'godless Communists' in 400-word Red Scare manifesto
By: Brendan Rascius (The Independent)
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'I'd be the Greatest Communist in History,' the president wrote on Truth Social
President Donald Trump decried communism in a fiery, 400-word tirade, invoking rhetoric reminiscent of the McCarthy era.
In a Truth Social post Friday afternoon, the Republican president lumped together socialists and communists, and characterized them as "animals" who, he claimed, violently oppose religion, casting them as the most significant threat the United States has ever faced.
The outburst appeared to be in response to this week's primary elections, during which a string of progressives emerged victorious in New York City, including three House candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani — two of whom identify as democratic socialists.
None have described themselves as communists, and there are no self-identified communists currently serving in Congress.
"Communism is very easy to sell," the 80-year-old president wrote. "I'd be the Greatest Communist in History. I'd give free rent, free houses, free food, everything is free. Unfortunately, after two or three years, the Country where this is taking place would fail. It always does, and then you'll start living in squalor."
Trump argued that communist governance would reduce the U.S. to a "Third World" nation prone to bouts of political violence. "These are not social Dumocrats, these are hard core, godless Communists," he added.
The New York congressional primaries this week produced wins for two self-described democratic socialists, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier. Brad Lander, another Mamdani-backed candidate, also won his race, though he left the Democratic Socialists of America in 2023. They have backed measures such as rent control, enhanced labor protections and broader safeguards for immigrants. All three have called for the U.S. to distance itself with Israel.
The president also faulted Democratic leaders for what he characterized as a failure to confront the party's extreme flank.
"In many ways, they're allowing them to go their own way," the president wrote. "They're afraid they will lose their Election, they're afraid of conflict. They're not smart enough or tough enough to fight this plague."
After the elections this week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) sought to minimize intra-party divisions. During a CNBC interview, when he was asked about chants from democratic socialists calling for his removal from leadership, he responded, "Donald Trump is the president of the United States right now. Are you kidding me?"
Elsewhere in his lengthy post, the GOP president asserted that communists are hell-bent on violently tearing down religion, particularly Christianity.
"All Communist Countries attack Religions violently," he wrote, referencing recent U.S. strikes on Islamic terrorists groups in Nigeria, which Trump said "largely ended the slaughter of their Great Christian population."
He then cast himself as the savior of Christendom.
"I am saving Christians throughout the World, even though we are not in those various Countries, by hitting these Terrorists violently and hard," he wrote. "They will close your Churches, they will kill your people. This is what they're about. This is the Greatest Threat to our Country since its Founding 250 years ago!"
The president's explosive comments, echoed in his afternoon remarks to the Faith and Freedom Coalition, recalled the rhetoric of the McCarthy era, a period in the 1940s and 1950s defined by fierce anti-communist suspicion and political repression.
Named for then-Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the era brought widespread blacklisting, job losses and ruined reputations as accusations of disloyalty and subversion spread nationwide. The House Un-American Activities Committee played a major role in investigating alleged communists and sparking fear of retaliation from Washington, D.C. to Hollywood.
"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity," McCarthy said in 1950.
The Trump administration has at times drawn on tactics reminiscent of that era, often called the Red Scare, in its efforts to curb immigration.
Last year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services began screening for what it described as "anti-American activity" when determining whether immigrants could legally live and work in the United States. The policy relied on a 60-year-old immigration law that bars alleged communists or those who support "totalitarian" regimes from entering the country.
Some Republicans have also urged Trump to revoke the citizenship of Mamdani, a democratic socialist.
In April, Texas Rep. Chip Roy proposed a bill that could allow the government to strip citizenship from individuals who "advocate" for socialism or are affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America — a category that would include the New York City mayor.
Trump's recent tirade and policy positions stand in contrast to his earlier comments about Mamdani. In November 2025, he welcomed the mayor to the White House, where he described him as a "very rationale person," adding that "some of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have." A Fox News anchor later described the meeting as a "love-fest."
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You have to give him this - there is nothing so low to which he will not stoop.
"Red scare" tactics have ebbed and flowed over the past 100 or so years, but they are a reliable trot out to influence the uneducated or closed minds.
Joe McCarthy was "tail gunner Joe". Trump can be "Fat ass Donny".
says the guy that married a commie porn star ...
OMG, I'm SO AFRAID!!!!!!!
Has it been two or three years yet? The only things I think have been free have been the training and infrastructure required to pull the poverty-stricken out of abject poverty. No sleeping under bridges here. It's been 20 years and not only am I not living in squalor, I'm living a lot more comfortably than I could possibly live in Canada or the USA, and I am not a Communist.
Many religions are practised where I am, including Christianity, but they are not permitted to become extreme like in the USA. My wife has never had any problem with practising her Buddhism, and when we head downtown we pass by the biggest mosque I've ever seen in my life. And by the way everything is NOT free, but it's a lot less expensive than elsewhere.
The same people who threw hysterical fits over "NAZI stages," labeled an awkward man a NAZI and tried to destroy him because of the way he waived to a crowd now happily support a guy who wore an SS tattoo and elect actual communists....
But they don't want anyone to notice that followers of an ideology that slaughtered 100 million people in it's single century of existence are now leading their party..
Total nonsense.
you alone possess the power to eliminate trolling in your own group.
Rightwing conservatives aren't fooling anyone. Americans will stand up to the rightwing conservative fascists and send them out the fucking door in November regardless of how much those fucking useless pieces of fascist shit scream "COMMUNIST!" or "SOCIALIST!". No one is believing your failed Fuhrer anymore. Trying to erase the WIDE and vast disapproval for all things rightwing conservative with some supremely stupid "But the left support the guy with an SS tattoo! They must be Nazi's!" argument isn't going to work. But it's what stupid desperate bigots do when they're trying to hide their own deep obvious connections to white supremacy with so much knowledge and respect for confederate generals and their history.
It's quite clear to any American with more than half a brain, that conservatives are desperate for a way off the Trumptanic that doesn't involve eating crow, but sadly, that is all that is on their menu and you can tell they're getting more rabid with every passing moment we get closer to the midterms. It's going to be a pleasure to watch them coughing up black feathers for the next several years, the poor dumb bastards.
Amen, brother.
COMMUNIST!"
They call themselves communists. [deleted][✘]
Personally, I judge a personas character by what they do, not because of some moron's misuse and misattribution of a word can be seen as "sensational!". That's why I'm not ashamed of any of the people I defend as I never defend the convicted felon sexual predator and accused pedophile like some folk I know. It is really funny to watch those defenders do mental contortions desperately trying to get everyone's attention away from their failure in the oval office.
equating communism with Nazism....jesus fucking christ! Did these people pass the 10th fucking grade????
" Highly educated adults – particularly those who have attended graduate school – are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values. And these differences have increased over the past two decades."
Ideological Gap Widens Between More, Less Educated Adults | Pew Research Center
The more you know, the more likely it is that you'll " take predominantly liberal positions".
It's why conservatives ridicule higher education so much. Colleges and Universities are where their kid's Christian conservative values go to die because reality, facts and truth tend to reject the conservative bias. It's been said that 'Reality has a liberal bias', but I believe the truth is closer to 'Reality rejects conservative bias'.
They did not attend the tenth grade, maybe paid someone to take the tests, or they are so demented that they just forgot allllllll about it.
Personally, I judge a personas character by what they do
right. You saw a guy who spreads anti semetic conspiracies and who decided to brand himself with an ss tattoo and said “ I like the cut of his jib”
with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values
yes, of course, the base for platner and the communists in New York are college educated whites, particularly downwardly mobile ones.Just like the Nazi party thrived in German universities, totalitarianism is attractive for those who think some education entitles them to success and power and they love the simple answers and people to blame left wing politics give them. They are the sheep the power hungry use to achieve their ends,
"downwardly mobile" is a good description. Most people used to want to move themselves up and have a better life.
Musk did not merely “wave awkwardly to a crowd.” He put his hand to his chest and threw his arm out in a straight-arm salute, and he did it twice. You can argue about intent if you want, but pretending people invented the resemblance is nonsense.
And that is the hypocrisy here. When Musk does something that looks like a Nazi salute, suddenly we are all required to parse motive, autism, awkwardness, context, enthusiasm, and benefit of the doubt. But when someone on the left has a bad association or uses the word “socialist,” the same people instantly leap to Stalin, Mao, and “100 million dead.”
[deleted] [✘] Realize that there is a difference between someone who actually uses the Nazi salute and some one who cares about our democracy.
perfect
Musk : his spastic arm waving resembles a Nazi salute, therefore it’s fair to attack him as a Nazi,
Guy with a literal SS tattoo: how dare you call him a Nazi!. He loves our democracy and shows it’s by branding his body with the symbol of a foreign enemy that opposes everything our country stands for.
With all this hilarious screaming about Platner that the obvious white nationalists are doing, one might start to think they're really just upset that he's running as a Democrat instead of a Republican. I mean, they spend hours tirelessly defending the white supremacist ideology of Stephen Miller and defend monuments to confederates and defend Trump when he says things like he wishes he had the kind of Generals like Hitler did, and defend their fellows marching with confederate flags side by side swastika flags while chanting "Jews will not replace us!", but now that a candidate for a seat (not even elected) admitted to having a skull tattoo that was once used by the SS, according to them, every Democrat now supports Nazi's. I mean, the logic, or rather lack of it, is truly astounding.
looks like trump is cementing his support among gullible thumper hypocrites and what's left of the cold war relics in his base.
I did not say that, now did I?
You made that up and tried to stick it on me.
My comment was about your argument. You took criticism of Musk’s repeated straight-arm salute, dragged in a tattoo I had not addressed, added “actual communists,” stapled Stalin’s death toll to the whole mess, and then acted as if that was something I had to defend.
It is not. You invented the argument. You can answer it yourself.
What else can you expect from the defenders of the most prolific liar to ever sit in the oval office. All they have now to defend the indefensible is to scream to the high heavens about a tattoo. The last guy I remember being this fucking obsessed with a Tattoo was Ricardo Bontalban. I guess it's apropos considering their tattoo issues are only relevant on their white conservative Christian Fantasy Island.
It makes you want to start smashing skulls.
edit:
metaphorically
looks like someone needs a remedial lesson on the term straw man
No smashing of skulls, just educating them. That's all I want. I want those stuck on antebellum white Christian Fantasy Island to get taught their lesson by Tattoo and Mr. Montalban and come home stripped of their delusions. No longer will they obsess over some delusional fantasy deep state. No longer will they listen to their religious leaders who push religious bigotry. They'll stop blaming migrants, asylum seekers and new immigrants for all their problems. No longer will they paint anyone who is against the genocide of Arab's as being an antisemite. No longer will they believe the non-stop parade of lies that come out of a conman's mouth even if the conman is promising them life on a white Christian Fantasy Island. And they'll no longer obsess over Tattoo thinking they've hit some jackpot 'Gotcha!' like they hit 'Bingo!' in their stupid political game. That's what I'm hoping for.
your idea is better and less messy
I did not say that, now did I?
of course you did, the entire thread os a comparison between musk and partner…
And you wrote this:
“Realize that there is a difference between someone who actually uses the Nazi salute and some one who cares about our democracy.”
You provided an example of the exact point I was making. Thanks for that
All they have now to defend the indefensible is to scream to the high heavens about a tatto
imagine telling yourself 5 years ago you’d spend your time downplaying the significance of a literal SS tattoo on a candidate becuase the party whose propaganda you parrot really needs to defeat the most moderate senator in the senate.
Would your past self believe you’d stoop to doing this, or say “well of course, the only thing that matters is the Party. If the party says the SS is fine, than the SS is fine”
Thanks for proving my point.
I will take "Forgetting everything I ever learned in my whole, entire life to defend a fascist state for $1000," Alex
Trump is the most evident symptom and cause of the current plague on American democracy.
Always fun to watch the lackeys of the party that just nominated a racist communist who wants to destroy western civilization try and pivot to “but trump”
elected a convicted felon and sexual predator who cheated on all three wives and paid off porn stars to keep them quiet about him fucking them. The list of Trumps crimes and unfitness for office is far too long to bother listing again and Trump sycophants know it, but they will ignore it all to throw out some useless moronic defense as they always do. It is very telling that every time the long list is brought up there is an immediate response from some foul troll suck-up to scream "But what about...!". And what's really sad is they don't even realize how silly it makes them look.
Nice!
But...but...he's the Savior of Christianity!!!!
Why can’t you justify your support for a bigoted, sex pest with an SS tattoo who fantasizes about raping men and roots for wounded American soldiers to die without resorting to “but trump”
Be proud of who you shill for
Always fun to watch the reflexive defenders of Trump try to project their own insecurities onto everyone else and never have the slightest moment of self-awareness.
Especially the ones who claim that they do not like him, but somehow are always the first to leap to the defense of the indefensible.
LOL