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Swede

(40,522 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:17 AM 23 hrs ago

Trump posts that he is now in a battle against Communism in the USA.

Says the Fascist.

ALL FASCIST LYING PIGS LIKE PUTIN, TRUMP, HITLER use the same fascist scapegoating, hate-mongering, name calling, false accusations, “otherness” social division tactics as RU owned traitor Trump spews daily. The daft Fox brainwashed MAGA Cult Sheep don’t know Democracy, V Communism, V Trump Fascism.

SaveDemocracy123 (@savedemocracy123.bsky.social) 2026-06-26T11:54:47.040Z
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Trump posts that he is now in a battle against Communism in the USA. (Original Post) Swede 23 hrs ago OP
He wouldn't know a communist superpatriotman 23 hrs ago #1
That exact scenario has probably occurred IRL EYESORE 9001 22 hrs ago #6
He Can't Even Spell The Word ProfessorGAC 18 hrs ago #61
Neither do his mouth breathers, and he knows it. GoodRaisin 18 hrs ago #62
Does he even know His BFF was a communist until they stole the money Historic NY 23 hrs ago #2
He obviously didn't write this The Blue Flower 23 hrs ago #3
Natalie Harpie probably wrote it. Prof. Toru Tanaka 20 hrs ago #35
Or Steven Cheung or Dan Scavino DinahMoeHum 20 hrs ago #51
That's what I thought, too. leftyladyfrommo 20 hrs ago #40
epstein Whip-poor-will 23 hrs ago #4
Plenty of Dictators got their start as Communist Populists. haele 20 hrs ago #39
Ironically, his state-approved media outlets will agree with this. Torchlight 23 hrs ago #5
By the time the election rolls around... kentuck 22 hrs ago #7
If they are hiding under their beds, then they won't be able to vote. LisaL 22 hrs ago #9
The US did this same shit throughout our hemisphere and elsewhere malaise 22 hrs ago #8
These people always need a Boogieman PatSeg 21 hrs ago #24
Ding di g malaise 20 hrs ago #41
They are the most obvious people on the planet PatSeg 18 hrs ago #63
Can someone let him know... purr-rat beauty 22 hrs ago #10
According to his definition of communism, he is one. The tariffs qualify him as a communist. OLDMDDEM 22 hrs ago #11
Communism is good for people who's Turbineguy 22 hrs ago #14
This is the Republican talking point! Mossfern 22 hrs ago #12
It will be their main talking point. Just watch. johnnyfins 21 hrs ago #17
They accused Kamala Harris of being a communist. yardwork 21 hrs ago #20
Hitler took over a Socialist party, kept Socialist in the name, but wnylib 19 hrs ago #57
Can we finally have a real discussion of what communism is and is not? Maeve 22 hrs ago #13
Sadly they're too stupid and hateful to care about the plain meaning of words Ponietz 21 hrs ago #27
First they came for the Communists ToxMarz 21 hrs ago #15
What an asshole. Scrivener7 21 hrs ago #16
Good god, he is so pathetic! Initech 21 hrs ago #18
This from a man who was code name by the KGB was Krasnov* as he was trying to sell out America to .... Botany 21 hrs ago #19
More echoes of Roy Cohn. Cohn was "Tailgunner Joe" McCarthy's point man for hunting "commies". Midnight Writer 21 hrs ago #21
Herb Fillbrick character on TV 's thomski64 21 hrs ago #25
Herb Fillbrick was a childhood hero of Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald idolized him. Midnight Writer 21 hrs ago #29
Reaching high and shaking the Republican trope boogie man tree. They must be reallt scared n/t Cheezoholic 21 hrs ago #22
Will the Communists tell Coke they have to use sugar in their soda? SamuelAdams 21 hrs ago #23
Goodness gracious! GiqueCee 20 hrs ago #44
Average American reads at a fifth grade level - how many know what a communist is? In the battle of perception NoMoreRepugs 21 hrs ago #26
Never fails. Every time the 1% feels threatened, they trot out the old Red Scare bullshit. sop 21 hrs ago #28
Part of his Hitler delusion Blue Full Moon 21 hrs ago #30
Really? What did Trump or any of his inheritance baby friends like Steve Witkoff, Ron Lauder, or Elon, or Trump's nephew ChicagoTeamster 21 hrs ago #31
Release the total unredacted Epstein/Trump files, sport. nt TBF 21 hrs ago #32
Republican extremists, that's what they all are, have been calling Democrats communists, socialists, marxists, etc Quiet Em 20 hrs ago #33
The Muslims are to blame, no, it's the immigrants, no it's Antifa, no, it's Buddyzbuddy 20 hrs ago #34
Martin Niemller bmichaelh 20 hrs ago #36
Channeling his mentor, Roy Cohn. no_hypocrisy 20 hrs ago #37
He can't even define communism bucolic_frolic 20 hrs ago #38
I guess "socialist" turned out not to work any more. ananda 20 hrs ago #42
What a tired old trope. These people have zero vision and only rely on the past, hence the dismantling of progress. chowder66 20 hrs ago #43
It's the same old fear story. Some undeserving free loader will steal from the truly deserving white MAGAts. flashman13 20 hrs ago #45
And If You're Watching FoxNews Mr.Bee 20 hrs ago #46
My brother Dave Id 20 hrs ago #47
The GOP always needs an enemy... Snackshack 20 hrs ago #48
Yesterday he was in a battle against Dumocrats. Emile 20 hrs ago #49
Quiet, Piggy orangecrush 20 hrs ago #50
So will this be the 9th war he's settled? bif 20 hrs ago #52
Deja Vu All Over Again! It's Like A Political MeTV!....... ColoringFool 20 hrs ago #53
They are shit scared of the losses they are going to Klarkashton 20 hrs ago #54
Don't Be A Sucker 2na fisherman 19 hrs ago #55
Fuck off trmp. spanone 19 hrs ago #56
Nixon began his career as an energetic little commie-hunter. 11 Bravo 19 hrs ago #58
So obvious Piggy didn't write that MorbidButterflyTat 18 hrs ago #59
1/6 of the world is communist, and growing. orthoclad 18 hrs ago #60
And because civics education sucks in this country, don't even try explaining the diff between socialism and commu Betty Boom 9 hrs ago #64
Desperate Deranged Pedophile Throws Shit Cha 9 hrs ago #65

GoodRaisin

(11,189 posts)
62. Neither do his mouth breathers, and he knows it.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 02:16 PM
18 hrs ago

He’s throwing the communism line against the wall to see if it will stick.

Historic NY

(40,211 posts)
2. Does he even know His BFF was a communist until they stole the money
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:20 AM
23 hrs ago

His father in law was a Communist Party official. Melania Trump's father, Viktor Knavs, was a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia during her childhood in the former Communist state. .

haele

(15,711 posts)
39. Plenty of Dictators got their start as Communist Populists.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:44 AM
20 hrs ago

His buddies Xi, Kim and Putin are all Card Carrying Communist Party members.
They're just also fellow hypocrites who leave their Marxist manifestos on the shelf in their libraries where all the other University text books ended up or as a doorstop or sofa shim somewhere.
To US fascists, Communist is just a replacement term for "They're Jerks who don't do what I want or say I'm selfish and mean"

kentuck

(116,044 posts)
7. By the time the election rolls around...
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:39 AM
22 hrs ago

...he will have his supporters so afraid they will be hiding under their beds. He uses fear as a weapon as well as any tyrant in history.

LisaL

(48,021 posts)
9. If they are hiding under their beds, then they won't be able to vote.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:49 AM
22 hrs ago

Especially considering how Trump is fighting mail in vote.

malaise

(299,610 posts)
8. The US did this same shit throughout our hemisphere and elsewhere
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:44 AM
22 hrs ago

Now they are doing it to their own citizens.
Watch them declare that the Democratic Party is a terrorist organization.
Eff the fascists!. Eff the racists! Eff the women haterz.
Anyone challenging trickle down is a communist.
Wake the eff up people.

PatSeg

(54,038 posts)
24. These people always need a Boogieman
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:16 AM
21 hrs ago

to sell the unsuspecting public. After 9/11, it was TERRORISTS! Now they're recycling communists because they ran the whole terrorist threat into the ground.

What they lack in imagination, they make up for with redundancy. In the end, they have nothing to sell but fear.

PatSeg

(54,038 posts)
63. They are the most obvious people on the planet
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 02:20 PM
18 hrs ago

yet so many keep falling for their crap.

purr-rat beauty

(1,661 posts)
10. Can someone let him know...
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:51 AM
22 hrs ago

....that his biggest heroes are Communist dictators.

So when he proposes something that is kinda communisty (oil/gas price gov't involvement), he has to come back around to cover for it by doubling down against it.


OLDMDDEM

(3,336 posts)
11. According to his definition of communism, he is one. The tariffs qualify him as a communist.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:59 AM
22 hrs ago

Mossfern

(4,869 posts)
12. This is the Republican talking point!
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:03 AM
22 hrs ago

I've heard it several times.
This is why I don't think that we should stress the "Socialist" in 'Democratic Socialism' - because people are idiots and don't know the difference between Communism and Socialism.

I think I posted about this last night.
We must deal with this immediately before it becomes a very popular meme.

Let it be known that Hitler's party was the National Socialist German Workers' Party
Throw it back in their faces. Trump admires Hitler....a socialist.

I'm honestly panicking about this.

johnnyfins

(4,160 posts)
17. It will be their main talking point. Just watch.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:59 AM
21 hrs ago

All democrats are communists. They have nothing else. But they will hammer this home day and night. Shit, Hannity tried to for all 8 years of Obama's presidency.

yardwork

(69,958 posts)
20. They accused Kamala Harris of being a communist.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:07 AM
21 hrs ago

It worked.

From the left she was vilified for not being progressive enough, while the right painted her as a communist.

It didn't matter what she said or did. This is why our democracy is being destroyed.

wnylib

(26,824 posts)
57. Hitler took over a Socialist party, kept Socialist in the name, but
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:45 PM
19 hrs ago

made it over into a fascist party.

Associating Hitler with socialism as a put down of Trump is a stretch that most people would not get. Instead, it would work against Dem candidates because it would link Hitler with liberals, progressives, and all Dems in general.

In Bush Jr's first campaign and term, his supporters linked Nazis with liberalism and with socialism to paint Dems as Nazis. I encountered many online posters at various website discussions who believed, or at least promoted the belief, that Dems were Nazi socialists/communists. The propaganda lumped Nazi, liberal, progressive, socialist, communist, and Democrats all together as one and the same political identity.

We really don't need to say things that would end up linking Nazis with progressives and liberals in the general public's minds. Trump and MAGAs will try to do that.

Maeve

(43,554 posts)
13. Can we finally have a real discussion of what communism is and is not?
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:19 AM
22 hrs ago

Communism centers on common ownership, distribution based on need, and the end of private ownership, something that ain't gonna happen in the US (and the end of money, which they tried in Star Trek, but just didn't work)
What we have growing in America is social democracy, which supports a gradual, reformist and democratic approach to achieving social equality. Much of that is a reaction to greed running unchecked (I'm looking at you, vulture capitalists) and a rise of oligarchy

Admitted I'm simplifying to some extent, but I grew up in the shadow of the Red Scare and people conflating socialism with Stalinism and communism with totalitarianism. Different systems all around

ToxMarz

(3,184 posts)
15. First they came for the Communists
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:45 AM
21 hrs ago

Then they came for The Communards!!!

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Botany

(78,247 posts)
19. This from a man who was code name by the KGB was Krasnov* as he was trying to sell out America to ....
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:06 AM
21 hrs ago

Last edited Fri Jun 26, 2026, 02:21 PM - Edit history (1)

….. the U.S.S.R. aka real Communists, he works for the Russian President Putin, who was @ one
time a KGB agent, spent time in East Germany working with Stasi the Communist’s secret police, and
repeats old Soviet Union propaganda that the Europeans weren’t paying their fare share to NATO.

* A traitor to the USSR in WW II who fought with the Nazis. He was executed by the Soviet Union
after the war for being a traitor. The KGB knew back in 1987 that Trump was a traitor to his Country.



Midnight Writer

(25,999 posts)
21. More echoes of Roy Cohn. Cohn was "Tailgunner Joe" McCarthy's point man for hunting "commies".
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:10 AM
21 hrs ago

He put the whole nation under a "Red Scare" and had citizens spotting commies on every street corner.

Trump would like nothing more than to throw the nation into an unfounded panic. Remember, only He can save us.

thomski64

(1,008 posts)
25. Herb Fillbrick character on TV 's
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:25 AM
21 hrs ago

"I Led Three Lives" was commie fighter. FBI double Agent saving us one episode at a time

Cheezoholic

(4,120 posts)
22. Reaching high and shaking the Republican trope boogie man tree. They must be reallt scared n/t
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:12 AM
21 hrs ago

SamuelAdams

(352 posts)
23. Will the Communists tell Coke they have to use sugar in their soda?
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:15 AM
21 hrs ago

Maybe they'll make Nvidia pay a special tax to allow them to sell certain chips in China. Or use the FCC to pressure TV stations to remove shows they don't like. Or force mergers and acquisitions between companies they like. Or impose high tariffs to force Americans to buy only government-approved products. Or have government take stakes in private companies. That does sound scary. Someone should put a stop to it.

GiqueCee

(5,068 posts)
44. Goodness gracious!
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:56 AM
20 hrs ago

When you put it like that, it sounds like a raging psychopath with the moral compass of a rabid hyena and really bad comb-over needs to have his lips superglued together, and dragged by his cankles out of the White House. And don't protect his head when you shove him in the back seat of the cruiser; there's nothing in it anyway.

NoMoreRepugs

(12,326 posts)
26. Average American reads at a fifth grade level - how many know what a communist is? In the battle of perception
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:27 AM
21 hrs ago

simplicity wins - TrumpenFuhrer excels at SIMPLE cuz that is what he is. He just declared WAR on every single existing social program in America IMO.

sop

(19,877 posts)
28. Never fails. Every time the 1% feels threatened, they trot out the old Red Scare bullshit.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:28 AM
21 hrs ago

ChicagoTeamster

(1,472 posts)
31. Really? What did Trump or any of his inheritance baby friends like Steve Witkoff, Ron Lauder, or Elon, or Trump's nephew
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:32 AM
21 hrs ago

Kushner ever "earn" besides global contempt for their greed and corruption.

I hope someone asks him "who are the communists"? "Your friends Putin, Xi, and Kim Jung Un"? "What have you given them now DonOld"?

Quiet Em

(3,241 posts)
33. Republican extremists, that's what they all are, have been calling Democrats communists, socialists, marxists, etc
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:38 AM
20 hrs ago

my entire life.

Any aid or benefit that helps the people is communism to them. It's pathetic and people are tired of it and they see right though this BS.

The con and the current extremist regime cut off food benefits for people. They cut out assistance for single moms and their children. They cut people out from gaining health insurance. They are kicking people out of medicare. Food and gas prices are out of control. People can't afford to buy houses and the con artist refused to sign a bi-partisan housing bill because he is hellbent on taking away our voting rights.

Buddyzbuddy

(3,047 posts)
34. The Muslims are to blame, no, it's the immigrants, no it's Antifa, no, it's
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:38 AM
20 hrs ago

the Socialists, no, it's the non-white non-Christian non "straight men", no it's the women that want equality and won't do as they're told, no it's the communists that are to blame for everything that prevents white Christian males (and Clarence Thomas and Stephen Miller) from succeeding in this Country. Yeah, that's it.

Just remember, don't blame the rapist, felon, thief, con artist, accused child predator currently occupying the Presidency for the major blunders that have resulted in the destruction of everything that was the best that America has had to offer.

250 years

bmichaelh

(1,320 posts)
36. Martin Niemller
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:41 AM
20 hrs ago

Trump does not know what communism or socialism is.
He supports socialism as long as it is for his oligarchs.

Trump has delusions that he will go down as one of the great persons of human history.
And the people he thought great were some of the top mass murderers of human history.

This is a poem to describe Trump will not just stop at Communists.

“In Germany they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left
to speak up for me.”
― Martin Niemöller

no_hypocrisy

(55,736 posts)
37. Channeling his mentor, Roy Cohn.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:42 AM
20 hrs ago

I guess we'll expect to see the return of Red Channels (watch out Robert DeNiro!) and congressional investigations and hearings, and your employers firing you for being unjustly (most of the time) as Communist.

bucolic_frolic

(56,327 posts)
38. He can't even define communism
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:44 AM
20 hrs ago

He doesn't know the difference between state communism and socialist communities, many of which in the 1800s in the US were Christian, btw.

chowder66

(12,703 posts)
43. What a tired old trope. These people have zero vision and only rely on the past, hence the dismantling of progress.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:53 AM
20 hrs ago

flashman13

(2,639 posts)
45. It's the same old fear story. Some undeserving free loader will steal from the truly deserving white MAGAts.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:00 PM
20 hrs ago

It's simply the anti DEI thing dressed in different clothes.

Dave Id

(376 posts)
47. My brother
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:06 PM
20 hrs ago

calls, referees to anyone on the left "communist". I seriously doubt he and other Republicans who use the word know the difference between socialism and communism, but they're happy to receive their monthly Social Security payments, use public road and so on. I remember Marjorie Taylor-Green used to use the word incorrectly also. She seems to have stopped.

Snackshack

(2,607 posts)
48. The GOP always needs an enemy...
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:09 PM
20 hrs ago

It used to be the 'commies'...then the immigrant or minorities until 9/11 when it became the terrorists... now we are back to communists.

Time is a flat circle.

ColoringFool

(1,385 posts)
53. Deja Vu All Over Again! It's Like A Political MeTV!.......
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:21 PM
20 hrs ago

🎶

?is=CMtIO_LIOvMFdFZ9

🎶

Klarkashton

(5,517 posts)
54. They are shit scared of the losses they are going to
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:28 PM
20 hrs ago

Face in November. Billionaires didn't earn their billions.

2na fisherman

(396 posts)
55. Don't Be A Sucker
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:40 PM
19 hrs ago

Trump is using a tired cliche' which has been discredited and made fit for only ridicule and satire. He is such a fool he thinks this act still has relevance in a modern multicultural world. Due to demographic shifts, the Us vs Them racially divisive politics of the past will be proven to be more foolish than the noises Trump makes during his rally speeches.

11 Bravo

(24,373 posts)
58. Nixon began his career as an energetic little commie-hunter.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 01:01 PM
19 hrs ago

Let's hope things work out equally as well for the flabby felon.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,958 posts)
59. So obvious Piggy didn't write that
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 01:44 PM
18 hrs ago

Been waiting and preparing for a long time?

The game is on?

Ideology?

It's fucking stupid, but it's not Piggy.

Betty Boom

(506 posts)
64. And because civics education sucks in this country, don't even try explaining the diff between socialism and commu
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:20 PM
9 hrs ago

🙄

Cha

(321,559 posts)
65. Desperate Deranged Pedophile Throws Shit
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:36 PM
9 hrs ago

against the wall to see if anything sticks

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