{"id":512704,"date":"2026-06-26T20:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/512704\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:43:17","slug":"after-progressive-us-primary-wins-trump-takes-aim-at-godless-communists-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/512704\/","title":{"rendered":"After progressive US primary wins, Trump takes aim at \u2018godless communists\u2019 | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States President Donald Trump has leaned into his latest political attack line, decrying \u201cgodless communists\u201d who will \u201cattack all Religions but, in particular, Christianity\u201d.<\/p>\n

The statements on Friday, made on his Truth Social account and during a meeting of the conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition, came days after progressive candidates backed by New York City\u2019s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani took home major victories<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n

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Trump did not directly name any candidates, making only a glancing reference to \u201cthe recent Election of Communists in our Country\u201d.<\/p>\n

He then unleashed a litany of far-flung claims and derisions: \u201cAssassinations of those who oppose them is a very important element of their Ideology\u201d; \u201cThese ruthless Communists will attack all Religions but, in particular, Christianity \u2013 They always do\u201d; \u201cThey\u2019re animals!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are not social Dumocrats [Democrats],\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cThese are hard core, godless Communists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the Greatest Threat to our Country since its Founding 250 years ago!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly used outlandish rhetoric throughout his political career, for example, regularly decrying Democrats as \u201cradical left lunatics\u201d and claiming in 2024, without evidence, that Haitians living in the US were \u201ceating pets\u201d.<\/p>\n

No self-identifying communists are currently running on the Democratic ticket ahead of the midterms, and there are no communists currently in elected office.<\/p>\n

Instead, Mamdani and the two candidates he backs, New York Democratic primary winners Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, are members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Chris Rabb, a state representative who won a Democratic congressional primary race in Pennsylvania to represent a solidly blue district, is also a member of the organisation.<\/p>\n

While somewhat amorphous in definition, democratic socialism and communism differ markedly in how adherents seek to achieve their broader goals of more equitable wealth redistribution and increased public control over government services.<\/p>\n

Democratic socialists support achieving their aims through electoral politics. Communists, at least in countries where the ideology has been put into practice, have eschewed democracy in exchange for an all-controlling state apparatus.<\/p>\n

Counter to Trump\u2019s claims, democratic socialists, and the DSA in particular, are also not opposed to religion. Mamdani, Tlaib and Avila Chevalier are Muslims, while Ocasio-Cortez identifies as Catholic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a long tradition of religious socialism in the United States that has been ignored or forgotten,\u201d the DSA\u2019s Religion and Socialism group says on its website. The group adds that it \u201crefuses to cede the ground of faith to the religious right\u201d.<\/p>\n

There are currently two members of the DSA in Congress, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib. A handful of other elected officials and Democratic candidates, most notably Senator Bernie Sanders, hew closely to democratic socialism but are not members of the DSA.<\/p>\n

Prior to his mayoral election victory in November of last year, Trump had also falsely<\/a> called Mamdani a \u201ccommunist\u201d.<\/p>\n

Shifting views<\/p>\n

The latest line of attack comes as Trump\u2019s Republican party is bracing for a potentially punishing midterm election, with the president\u2019s approval rating dipping to an all-time low amid persistent cost-of-living concerns.<\/p>\n

Trump and his allies have identified the leftward lurch in the Democratic Party as a weakness heading into November. They have also sought to drum up support among the religious, predominantly Christian, conservative base.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear if the strategy will be effective.<\/p>\n

While the \u201csocialist\u201d label was deeply stigmatised in the US throughout the Cold War era, polls have increasingly shown declining support for capitalism and increased support for socialism.<\/p>\n

A Gallup poll last year found Americans with positive views of capitalism dropped from 61 percent in 2010 to 54 percent in 2025. Positive views of socialism, meanwhile, rose from 36 percent to 39 percent during that period.<\/p>\n

For Democrats in particular, opinions on socialism have increased significantly. In 2010, 50 percent of Democrats had a positive view of socialism. In 2025, that had increased to 66 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States President Donald Trump has leaned into his latest political attack line, decrying \u201cgodless communists\u201d who will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,43,40,38,41,39,1032,1156,209722],"class_list":["post-512704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-us-midterm-elections-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}