President Donald Trump boosted the rantings of a far-right pundit who called for the deportation of “hardcore communist b*******.”
Trump, 80, shared a video to Truth Social on Sunday by conservative commentator Michael Savage, 84, titled “DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM MUST BE CRIMINALIZED; LEADERS DEPORTED.”
The bizarre repost comes as Trump has recently been obsessing over socialism and communism, including warning about a communist takeover of the Democratic Party.
In the 49-minute-long, expletive-filled rant, Savage rips into New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who identifies as a Democrat Socialist, calling him a “smirking bastard” and arguing that democratic socialists are like Pol Pot — under whose communist dictatorship up to 2 million Cambodians died, according to History.com.
Savage argued that Democratic Socialists offering “free” programs are more like Pol Pot, who caused the deaths of millions in Cambodia’s “killing fields.”
“This is exactly what Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists will do to you,” Savage ranted. “Forget the smirks, forget the smiles, forget the bull**** that it’s like Denmark or Norway. These are hardcore communist b******* who must be stopped, criminalized and deported. I’m clear as a bell on this.”
“We will fall if they are not deported,” Savage said in the video, which was posted on YouTube on the Fourth of July.
While wagging his finger at the camera, Savage continued: “I don’t give a s*** what the Supreme Court says! I don’t give a F what The New York Times says! Decriminalize the Democrat Socialist Party and deport them now, before you lose your freedom and your life.”
Savage, whose real name is Michael Weiner, hosts Savage Nation on Newsmax. He was permanently banned from entering the U.K. in 2009 for “seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred.”
Trump’s sharing of Savage’s video comes as a handful of Democratic Socialists won Democratic primaries within the past month, including two in New York City, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier. Both were endorsed by Mamdani ahead of the primaries.
His insistence that Democrats are allegedly co-opting “communism” was apparent during his Fourth of July speech, during which Trump warned against the rise of communism, likening it to a “cancer that had to be removed.”
He told a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.: "You've got to cut it out, and you got to cut it out fast."
His portrayal of Democrats as socialists and communists follows playbooks previously used by Republicans like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan during the Cold War.
Trump officials are testing this new strategy with focus groups as Republicans prepare for the intense final stretch to the November elections, which will determine control of Congress.
Trump has also shared these beliefs repeatedly on Truth Social, writing on July 11, “AMERICA WILL NEVER BE A COMMUNIST COUNTRY!”
Immediately after, he followed that message with, “The Radical Left Lunatics, often referred to as Dumocrats, have lost control of their Party.”
"They are being led by loud and unattractive people who have totally lost their way. Hopefully, they will fight back, and not let this sick, Communist ideology, take over America!"
