President Donald Trump delivered a thunderous warning against communism Friday night at Mount Rushmore, framing it as an existential danger to the American experiment just ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Speaking beneath the towering faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln, Trump declared the country faces “a resurgence of the Communist menace,” fueled by newcomers who bring a philosophy “totally opposed to our way of life.” He rejected any notion that this is mere policy disagreement over taxes or regulations.
“Communism is a mortal threat to American Liberty. It is the Greatest Threat to our Country including World War One, World War Two, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11,” Trump stated. He positioned the ideology as the direct enemy of the nation’s founding: “Because Communism is the enemy of Free People everywhere. It is the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it is the Enemy of July 4th, 1776.”
Trump contrasted radical attacks on American history with their deliberate silence on communism’s bloody record. “Their system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried—it killed 100 million people in the last century.” He called communism “the exact opposite of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” labeling it instead “death, tyranny and the pursuit of evil.”
The president exposed the godless core of the ideology: “The Godless Communist morality states that anything is justified… They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights.” Once in power, he warned, communists destroy the democratic institutions they exploit: “It is an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder.”
Trump drew a stark line: “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 Marxist indoctrination in schools and culture that slanders America’s heroes and heritage as “stolen land” or oppression. Such lies do not merely attack the past—they target America’s future by seeking to “tear down the American Character.”
Referencing the blood shed at Concord, Trenton, Gettysburg, Shiloh, Midway, and Normandy, Trump declared our ancestors did not sacrifice so radicals could loot and pillage their hard-won republic.
On the eve of America’s semiquincentennial, we must renew our sacred vow: communism has no home on these shores. It represents the worst ideas by the worst people, while the American Founding embodies the best ideas by the best people. To secure another 250 years of liberty, prosperity, and self-government, every patriot must fight this poisonous ideology with unrelenting resolve—in our schools, borders, institutions, and culture.
