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Trump Calls Communism U.S.’s Greatest Threat Since WWII

6/30/2026

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President Donald Trump warned on June 29, 2026 that communism threatens the U.S. more than World I, World II, 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
He delivered the comment to Oval Office reporters after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he might be a socialist poster.
Trump stressed the issue was communism, not socialism, and called it the nation’s biggest threat since founding.
Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat posted on X asking who will explain World II to the public.

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President Donald Trump warned on June 29, 2026 that communism threatens the U.S. more than World I, World II, 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
He delivered the comment to Oval Office reporters after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he might be a socialist poster.
Trump stressed the issue was communism, not socialism, and called it the nation’s biggest threat since founding.
Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat posted on X asking who will explain World II to the public.