Trump Decries Communism, Says Its ‘Breathtaking Popularity’ Turns to ‘Death, Destruction, Squalor’

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on June 3, President Donald Trump decried communism, saying that the ideology leads to “death, destruction, and squalor.” Trump said that the “free houses,” “free food,” and “free everything” offered by communist ideas “eventually … ends, and it leads to death, destruction, and squalor—100 percent of the time.” Trump was responding to a question from NTD, a sister outlet of The Epoch Times, related to a post he made on Truth Social the same day discussing communist ideology. “Communists always do well with the voters, or as they would say, the people in the early years, but in the end, the country, state, or city goes to hell. Great violence proceeds at levels never seen before, and the entity dissolves into poverty, squalor, and crime,” Trump wrote in that post. “Remember, breathtaking ‘popularity’ first, and then guaranteed death and destruction.”...