Trump’s message for America 250: ‘You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both’

Speaking just ahead of America's semiquincentennial, Trump said the country is facing "a resurgence of the Communist menace," that is being fueled in part by newcomers to the United States who embrace a philosophy "totally opposed to our way of life."

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"These are not mere political disagreements, like differences over taxes or regulations," Trump said. "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 added that communism stands in direct opposition to the nation's founding principles.

"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," he said.

The president slammed efforts by "radicals and extremists" to attack American history while ignoring the historical record of communist regimes.

"Even while the radicals and extremists attack our incredible history at every turn, they are silent on the miserable history of Communism itself. Their system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried—it killed 100 million people in the last century," Trump said.

Calling communism "the exact opposite of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness," Trump added that it represents "death, tyranny and the pursuit of evil."

"The Godless Communist morality states that anything is justified to bring about the inhuman visions they propose. They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights."

Trump also warned that communist governments ultimately destroy democratic institutions once they gain power.

"It is 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—just as Communists have done in other countries all over the world," he said.

Trump then declared, "Very simply, Communism represents the worst ideas and abuses in history by the worst people—the American Founding represents the best ideas and traditions in history by the best people."

"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."

Trump also condemned what he described as Marxist narratives about American history.

"As for those who would peddle Marxist lies about our heritage—who tell our children that we live on stolen land, or that our heroes were oppressors—they are doing something much worse than slandering our past. They are attacking our future," he said. "They are trying to tear down the American Character, to destroy the people who declared Independence, crossed the Delaware, settled the West, and conquered the skies. But we will never let that happen."

Referencing major battles throughout American history, Trump said, "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 and radicals could come in and loot and pillage the nation our heroes died to win, build, and save."

He concluded by pledging that the United States would reject communism.

"So on the eve of this 250th anniversary of American Liberty, we resolve and swear for all to hear that the Citizens of the United States of America will vanquish Communism from our shores, and send it into exile once and for all," Trump said. "America will never be a Communist country!"

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