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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Brendan Rascius

‘They will kill your people’: Trump warns of ‘godless Communists’ in 400-word Red Scare manifesto

President Donald Trump decried communism in a fiery, 400-word tirade, invoking rhetoric reminiscent of the McCarthy era.

In a Truth Social post Friday afternoon, the Republican president lumped together socialists and communists, and characterized them as “animals” who, he claimed, violently oppose religion, casting them as the most significant threat the United States has ever faced.

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