Zohran Mamdani wanted to redefine America into socialism, while sitting behind the wrong side of a desk. Did anyone think to check whether the drawers were on the correct side for this two-minute appropriation of the American Revolution as a wind-up to calling for another? And did anyone even crack a smile, other than Mamdani himself? Via Twitchy:
He’s been trained by his political handlers to smile almost incessantly. It’s an obvious forced smile to make his odious policies seem reasonable and safe.
Here, he’s lost the smile. The result? He and his message convey their inherent hostility. pic.twitter.com/6QesVnKp1w
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) July 3, 2026
Seriously, Your Honor. You aren’t sitting behind the desk; you’re sitting in front of it. The drawers are not for your guests, man. And while Mamdani smiled through his flag-planting for socialism, no one else in this shot even so much as smirked. Instead, they gave a very good impression of how the new socialist commissars will look once Mamdani’s revolution succeeds, except at that point they can ditch the flags.
A few hours later, Donald Trump spoke at length from Mt. Rushmore to celebrate America’s semiquincentennial with a more traditional approach. Trump hailed the American experiment and the spirit of 1776, in precisely the terms that most politicians outside of Big Apple socialists employ. Independence Day addresses are usually easy; we hail the founding fathers, express gratitude for liberty, and hail America’s achievements since the founding.
Trump delivered on those expectations, but then he summoned up a rebuke aimed directly at Mamdani and the rest of the Democratic Socialists that wants revolution rather than ordered liberty and the American tradition. Trump called communism “the enemy of 1776,” and spoke at length about the low character of its adherents and the dangers it poses to the American experiment. The video has the whole speech, but the lengthy excerpt from the transcript below it delivered a powerful blow to the Stalinist fad sweeping the Left:
Yet, as we approach 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 and 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 and stronger than ever before. America will never be a communist country.
We can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms if we are foolish, stupid, and unwise. But if we terminate the filibuster as we should do and immediately vote for the Save America Act, then we will not lose an election for 100 years.
We do that. We’re not going to lose an election for 100 years. The Communist Party is made up of illegal immigrants, criminals, and everybody that doesn’t want to work. Communism is a loser. It always was, and it is right now.
It’s a big loser. Look at the people that are promoting it. They are not the people you’re going to follow.
Trump does not mince words, and he did not even bother to hide his contempt for Third World-adjacent malcontents who want to remake the country we love. Rather than pussyfoot around the “land acknowledgments” and other woke nonsense that aims to deconstruct the West, Trump stood up and gave not just a full-throated defense of it but a call to actively push back against the Marxist deconstructionists that now threaten a hostile takeover of one of America’s two main political parties. And while Democrats will never show this kind of intestinal fortitude, the rest of us certainly can.
Happy 250th birthday to the first modern republic based on liberty rather than blood or soil. If we match this passion, we can surely keep it.
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