President Donald Trump marked the 250th anniversary of the United States yesterday that repeated his calls for new voting restrictions, warned that “communists” could gain ground in the country.
After a storm-related delay of nearly two hours, Reuters said that Trump appeared on the National Mall in Washington to deliver a speech that mixed appeals to patriotism with attacks on perceived ideological threats at home and abroad.
Referring to communism, he said: “We like to stop a threat like that immediately and before it begins. It’s like a cancer – you’ve got to cut it out and you got to cut it out fast,” he said, according to Reuters.
Trump has in the past repeatedly referred to left-wing Democratic candidates who have won a string of primary elections as “communists,” though he did not explicitly do so yesterday.
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