President Trump delivered a patriotic speech warning that communism represents a mortal threat to American liberty and the Constitution. He argued that one cannot be both a communist and a patriot, framing the ideology as a system of death and tyranny that stands in direct opposition to the American values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
James Kaufman, World News Report Today.
President Trump gives patriotic speech
and warns Americans about communism.
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.
But you can't be both.
On this magnificent anniversary,
we see our American identity under a renewed attack.
A generation after we fought and won the Cold War against the menace
of communism, there is now a resurgence of the communist menace
in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace
ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success.
These are not mere political disagreements
like differences over taxes or regulations.
Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty.
It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I,
World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9-11.
We're not going to let this happen to us.
Believe me, we're not letting it happen.
because communism is the enemy
of free people everywhere everywhere in the world never works
it's the enemy of the constitution above all it's
the enemy of july 4th 1776 it is the enemy indeed
even while the radicals
and extremists attack our incredible history at every turn they are
silent on the miserable history of communism itself
because it never worked thousands of
years if you look at it under different names
under somewhat different ideologies and systems
that system has led to more death
and destruction than any system ever tried it killed 100 million
people just in the last century alone communism
is the exact opposite of life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness it's death tyranny
and the pursuit of evil the godless communist morality
states that anything is justified to bring about inhuman visions
and to really propose
what's good. They don't want good.
They don't love God, and they don't want God. They don't
love religion, and they don't want religion, and they won't have it.
But we will not let them win.
They have no chance against us.
They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition,
or your god-given rights. It's 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.
It always is destroyed, just as communists
have done in other countries all over the world,
no matter where you look. 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 like you. 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.
As for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our
children, that we live on stolen land,
or that our heroes were oppressors. They're doing something
much worse than slandering our past.
They are slandering and attacking our future. Not going
to let that happen. They're trying to tear down
the great American character to destroy the people
who declared independence, who crossed the Delaware,
who settled the West and conquered
the skies. You know who those people are but we will never let
that happen. 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 radicals
and lunatics could come in and loot, pillage our nation. Our
heroes died to win build and to save
and to build truly a great country the greatest country ever in
the world.
So on the eve of this 250th anniversary
of American heritage, we resolve and swear for
all to hear that the citizens of the United States
of America will vanquish communism quickly. Don't
let them take too much of your time.
You know they're wasting your time, don't you? But we're
not going to let them take too long
or too much of our time as they play their games and send them
into exile. We will send them quickly away,
and we will continue to build our country bigger and
better, stronger than ever before.
America will never be a communist country. May I say,
very well put, sir. God bless America.
God bless our President Donald Trump.