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Swede

(40,627 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:17 AM Jun 26

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 Jun 26 OP
He wouldn't know a communist superpatriotman Jun 26 #1
That exact scenario has probably occurred IRL EYESORE 9001 Jun 26 #6
He Can't Even Spell The Word ProfessorGAC Jun 26 #61
Neither do his mouth breathers, and he knows it. GoodRaisin Jun 26 #62
Does he even know His BFF was a communist until they stole the money Historic NY Jun 26 #2
He obviously didn't write this The Blue Flower Jun 26 #3
Natalie Harpie probably wrote it. Prof. Toru Tanaka Jun 26 #35
Or Steven Cheung or Dan Scavino DinahMoeHum Jun 26 #51
That's what I thought, too. leftyladyfrommo Jun 26 #40
epstein Whip-poor-will Jun 26 #4
Plenty of Dictators got their start as Communist Populists. haele Jun 26 #39
No, Putin is not a communist orthoclad Jun 28 #66
Ironically, his state-approved media outlets will agree with this. Torchlight Jun 26 #5
By the time the election rolls around... kentuck Jun 26 #7
If they are hiding under their beds, then they won't be able to vote. LisaL Jun 26 #9
The US did this same shit throughout our hemisphere and elsewhere malaise Jun 26 #8
These people always need a Boogieman PatSeg Jun 26 #24
Ding di g malaise Jun 26 #41
They are the most obvious people on the planet PatSeg Jun 26 #63
Because it works. orthoclad Jun 28 #67
Same damn script over and over again PatSeg Jun 28 #69
It seems to run on a generational time scale orthoclad Jun 28 #70
Yes, especially when politicians PatSeg Jun 28 #71
There's at least a century of experience orthoclad Jun 28 #72
Can someone let him know... purr-rat beauty Jun 26 #10
According to his definition of communism, he is one. The tariffs qualify him as a communist. OLDMDDEM Jun 26 #11
Communism is good for people who's Turbineguy Jun 26 #14
This is the Republican talking point! Mossfern Jun 26 #12
It will be their main talking point. Just watch. johnnyfins Jun 26 #17
They accused Kamala Harris of being a communist. yardwork Jun 26 #20
Hitler took over a Socialist party, kept Socialist in the name, but wnylib Jun 26 #57
Can we finally have a real discussion of what communism is and is not? Maeve Jun 26 #13
Sadly they're too stupid and hateful to care about the plain meaning of words Ponietz Jun 26 #27
First they came for the Communists ToxMarz Jun 26 #15
What an asshole. Scrivener7 Jun 26 #16
Good god, he is so pathetic! Initech Jun 26 #18
This from a man who was code name by the KGB was Krasnov* as he was trying to sell out America to .... Botany Jun 26 #19
More echoes of Roy Cohn. Cohn was "Tailgunner Joe" McCarthy's point man for hunting "commies". Midnight Writer Jun 26 #21
Herb Fillbrick character on TV 's thomski64 Jun 26 #25
Herb Fillbrick was a childhood hero of Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald idolized him. Midnight Writer Jun 26 #29
Reaching high and shaking the Republican trope boogie man tree. They must be reallt scared n/t Cheezoholic Jun 26 #22
Will the Communists tell Coke they have to use sugar in their soda? SamuelAdams Jun 26 #23
Goodness gracious! GiqueCee Jun 26 #44
Average American reads at a fifth grade level - how many know what a communist is? In the battle of perception NoMoreRepugs Jun 26 #26
Never fails. Every time the 1% feels threatened, they trot out the old Red Scare bullshit. sop Jun 26 #28
Part of his Hitler delusion Blue Full Moon Jun 26 #30
Really? What did Trump or any of his inheritance baby friends like Steve Witkoff, Ron Lauder, or Elon, or Trump's nephew ChicagoTeamster Jun 26 #31
Release the total unredacted Epstein/Trump files, sport. nt TBF Jun 26 #32
Republican extremists, that's what they all are, have been calling Democrats communists, socialists, marxists, etc Quiet Em Jun 26 #33
The Muslims are to blame, no, it's the immigrants, no it's Antifa, no, it's Buddyzbuddy Jun 26 #34
Martin Niemller bmichaelh Jun 26 #36
Channeling his mentor, Roy Cohn. no_hypocrisy Jun 26 #37
He can't even define communism bucolic_frolic Jun 26 #38
I guess "socialist" turned out not to work any more. ananda Jun 26 #42
What a tired old trope. These people have zero vision and only rely on the past, hence the dismantling of progress. chowder66 Jun 26 #43
It's the same old fear story. Some undeserving free loader will steal from the truly deserving white MAGAts. flashman13 Jun 26 #45
And If You're Watching FoxNews Mr.Bee Jun 26 #46
My brother Dave Id Jun 26 #47
The GOP always needs an enemy... Snackshack Jun 26 #48
Yesterday he was in a battle against Dumocrats. Emile Jun 26 #49
Quiet, Piggy orangecrush Jun 26 #50
So will this be the 9th war he's settled? bif Jun 26 #52
Deja Vu All Over Again! It's Like A Political MeTV!....... ColoringFool Jun 26 #53
They are shit scared of the losses they are going to Klarkashton Jun 26 #54
Don't Be A Sucker 2na fisherman Jun 26 #55
Fuck off trmp. spanone Jun 26 #56
Nixon began his career as an energetic little commie-hunter. 11 Bravo Jun 26 #58
So obvious Piggy didn't write that MorbidButterflyTat Jun 26 #59
1/6 of the world is communist, and growing. orthoclad Jun 26 #60
And because civics education sucks in this country, don't even try explaining the diff between socialism and commu Betty Boom Jun 26 #64
Desperate Deranged Pedophile Throws Shit Cha Jun 26 #65
No. He is not in a battle against "communism"... kentuck Jun 28 #68
"Thousands of years..." interesting. David__77 Jun 28 #73
This is part of a pattern LetMyPeopleVote Monday #74

GoodRaisin

(11,239 posts)
62. Neither do his mouth breathers, and he knows it.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 02:16 PM
Jun 26

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

Historic NY

(40,242 posts)
2. Does he even know His BFF was a communist until they stole the money
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:20 AM
Jun 26

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

(15,766 posts)
39. Plenty of Dictators got their start as Communist Populists.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:44 AM
Jun 26

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

(116,346 posts)
7. By the time the election rolls around...
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:39 AM
Jun 26

...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

(48,318 posts)
9. If they are hiding under their beds, then they won't be able to vote.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:49 AM
Jun 26

Especially considering how Trump is fighting mail in vote.

malaise

(300,157 posts)
8. The US did this same shit throughout our hemisphere and elsewhere
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:44 AM
Jun 26

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

(54,284 posts)
24. These people always need a Boogieman
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:16 AM
Jun 26

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

(54,284 posts)
63. They are the most obvious people on the planet
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 02:20 PM
Jun 26

yet so many keep falling for their crap.

PatSeg

(54,284 posts)
69. Same damn script over and over again
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 09:58 AM
Jun 28

with some minor changes. I watched an old campaign ad of Senator Charles Percy from the 1960s or 1970s and it was the SAME spiel and people are still buying it today.

Yes, it is like a movie franchise and people don't realize they're just getting more of the exact same thing, though in the end, they usually get nothing. Then they turn around and fall for it again with another candidate.

orthoclad

(5,402 posts)
70. It seems to run on a generational time scale
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:00 AM
Jun 28

using a fresh politically or historically naive population.

PatSeg

(54,284 posts)
71. Yes, especially when politicians
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:09 AM
Jun 28

appeal to apolitical people who are easy to trigger, but seriously uninformed.

orthoclad

(5,402 posts)
72. There's at least a century of experience
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:16 AM
Jun 28

by pros about how to manipulate populations. The Reich Wing taps CIA experience with coups and thought control and subversion. Think Bush I.

purr-rat beauty

(1,758 posts)
10. Can someone let him know...
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:51 AM
Jun 26

....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

(3,351 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
Jun 26

Mossfern

(4,944 posts)
12. This is the Republican talking point!
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:03 AM
Jun 26

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

(4,208 posts)
17. It will be their main talking point. Just watch.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:59 AM
Jun 26

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

(70,302 posts)
20. They accused Kamala Harris of being a communist.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:07 AM
Jun 26

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

(27,058 posts)
57. Hitler took over a Socialist party, kept Socialist in the name, but
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:45 PM
Jun 26

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

(43,570 posts)
13. Can we finally have a real discussion of what communism is and is not?
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:19 AM
Jun 26

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

(3,247 posts)
15. First they came for the Communists
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:45 AM
Jun 26

Then they came for The Communards!!!

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Botany

(78,452 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
Jun 26

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

(26,095 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
Jun 26

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

(1,031 posts)
25. Herb Fillbrick character on TV 's
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:25 AM
Jun 26

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

Cheezoholic

(4,225 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
Jun 26

SamuelAdams

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

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

(5,264 posts)
44. Goodness gracious!
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:56 AM
Jun 26

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

(12,372 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
Jun 26

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

(20,155 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
Jun 26

ChicagoTeamster

(1,583 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
Jun 26

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

(3,379 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
Jun 26

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

(3,139 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
Jun 26

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

(1,338 posts)
36. Martin Niemller
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:41 AM
Jun 26

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

(55,916 posts)
37. Channeling his mentor, Roy Cohn.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:42 AM
Jun 26

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

(56,524 posts)
38. He can't even define communism
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:44 AM
Jun 26

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

(12,767 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
Jun 26

flashman13

(2,688 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
Jun 26

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

Dave Id

(387 posts)
47. My brother
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:06 PM
Jun 26

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

(2,614 posts)
48. The GOP always needs an enemy...
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:09 PM
Jun 26

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.

Klarkashton

(5,578 posts)
54. They are shit scared of the losses they are going to
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:28 PM
Jun 26

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

2na fisherman

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

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

(24,391 posts)
58. Nixon began his career as an energetic little commie-hunter.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 01:01 PM
Jun 26

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

MorbidButterflyTat

(5,110 posts)
59. So obvious Piggy didn't write that
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 01:44 PM
Jun 26

Been waiting and preparing for a long time?

The game is on?

Ideology?

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

Betty Boom

(516 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
Jun 26

🙄

kentuck

(116,346 posts)
68. No. He is not in a battle against "communism"...
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 09:49 AM
Jun 28

He is in a battle to stop the truth from coming out. Up to this point, he has been very effective, with the help of his Republican allies.

He is in a battle to stop the investigations of all the crimes and grifting by the Trump Family.

He is in a battle to stop the next election.

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