At his Independence Day eve address at Mount Rushmore, President Donald Trump declared communism the greatest threat the United States has ever faced, telling a crowd in the Black Hills of South Dakota that the danger surpassed the two world wars, Pearl Harbor and the September 11 attacks.
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Speaking on the eve of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Trump said communism was a mortal threat to American liberty and warned of a resurgence of a communist menace inside the country.
He said the threat came in part from newcomers who embraced ideas opposed to the American way of life. He drew a stark line for the audience, saying, “You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.”
“We resolve and swear for all to hear that the citizens of the United States of America will vanquish communism quickly,” he said, vowing that America would never become a communist country.
The president said communism had killed 100 million people in the last century alone and had produced more death and destruction than any system ever tried. He said the ideology was the enemy of free people everywhere and the enemy of the U.S. Constitution.
He told the crowd that Republicans could only lose the coming midterm elections if they allowed themselves to, and he urged the termination of the Senate filibuster, the rule that allows a minority of senators to block legislation. He said that if the filibuster were ended and lawmakers passed the Save America Act, Republicans wouldn’t lose an election for 100 years.
He said the Democratic Party was made up of illegal immigrants, criminals and people who did not want to work. He said those who told children that Americans lived on stolen land or that American heroes were oppressors were peddling Marxist lies and attacking the country’s future.
The speech served as a kickoff to a year of events marking the country’s 250th birthday.
Trump said that, at 250 years old, America was the oldest republic on Earth and the most successful nation ever to exist.
Trump also paid tribute to the four presidents depicted on Mount Rushmore. He described George Washington as the father of the country, Thomas Jefferson as the author of the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved the Union, and Theodore Roosevelt as the president who helped build the United States into a global superpower. He said they were the four men most responsible for bringing the nation to its 250th anniversary and that their faces served as a reminder of the American character and identity.
Trump said that in recent years there had been an attempt to change the American character and alienate Americans from their own history. He said there could be no American freedom without American culture.
The president used much of the remainder of the address to list American achievements and his economic record.
He said $19.2 trillion in investment was pouring into the U.S. The previous record had been $3 trillion, adding that the Biden administration had brought in less than $1 trillion over four years.
Trump credited his election victory on Nov. 5 and his tariff policy for a wave of plant and factory construction, saying automobile plants were rising at a pace not seen in 35 years. He said the country was doing better than it ever had.
On foreign policy, Trump said the U.S. had beaten Venezuela in one day and “knocked the hell out of Iran,” saying Tehran wanted to settle. He then referred to the body of water off the southern coast as the Gulf of America, the name his administration has adopted for the Gulf of Mexico.
Trump opened the address by thanking the South Dakota Air National Guard and the pilots of the F-35 fighter jets that flew over the site. He acknowledged Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Sen. Mike Rounds, Gov. Larry Rhoden, Lt. Gov. Ben Heisen, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
He closed by telling the crowd that the anniversary marked the beginning of a golden age of America. He said the country would be made bigger, better and stronger than ever before.
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This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Molly Riley.
