Trump Blasts Resurgent Communism on July 4th: “You Cannot Be Both a Communist and a Patriot”
President Trump delivered a fiery Independence Day message, warning America that communism poses the single greatest threat to our liberty and way of life.
As the nation prepares for its 250th anniversary, Trump made clear the battle lines are drawn. A generation after winning the Cold War, the communist menace is back, fueled by radicals and newcomers who reject everything that made America great.
“Yet as we approach this magnificent anniversary, we see our American identity under a renewed attack,” Trump said. “A generation after we fought and won the Cold War against the menace of Communism, there is now a resurgence of the Communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success.”
He left no room for doubt: this is not about policy disagreements like taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal enemy.
“Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11,” Trump declared. “We’re not going to let this happen to us. Believe me, we’re not letting it happen.”
Trump hammered the deadly record of communism, which has failed everywhere it has been tried and left a trail of corpses.
“Communism is the enemy of free people everywhere,” he said. “Never works. It’s the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it’s the enemy of July 4th, 1776.”
He noted its bloody history: “It killed 100 million people just in the last century alone. Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It’s death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil.”
The President exposed the godless core of the ideology: “They don’t love God, and they don’t want God. They don’t love religion, and they don’t want religion, and they won’t have it. But we will not let them win. They have no chance against us.”
Trump pulled no punches on what communism actually delivers: “It’s an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder. Such doctrines can be given no quarter in a democracy, because the first thing they do when they get into power is turn around and destroy it.”
He drew a bright line between American founders and Marxist radicals.
“The American founding represents the best ideas and traditions in history by the best people, like you,” Trump said. “You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a Communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.”
He condemned those pushing Marxist lies on our children, claiming America is built on stolen land and our heroes were oppressors. These attacks aren’t just on the past, Trump warned, they are assaults on America’s future.
“Our American ancestors did not shed their blood at Concord and Trenton, Gettysburg and Shiloh, Midway and Normandy, just so that a band of thieves, radicals, and lunatics could come in and loot, pillage our nation,” he said.
On the eve of the 250th anniversary, Trump issued a clear resolution:
“The citizens of the United States of America will vanquish Communism quickly… We will send them quickly away, and we will continue to build our country bigger and better, stronger than ever before. America will never be a Communist country.”
