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President Trump on Sunday shared a video calling for “hardcore communist bastards” to be deported, notably naming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).
Conservative pundit Michael Savage’s 49-minute-long video, which he posted on July 4, claims that democratic socialist candidates running as Democrats have been turning the U.S. into a socialist country through, for example, the launch of “free” programs. Savage claimed that the country was turning into Cambodia under the dictator Pol Pot.
“That is exactly what Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists will do to you,” Savage said. “Forget the smirks, forget the smiles, forget the bull—- that it’s like Denmark and Norway. These are hardcore communist bastards who must be stopped, criminalized and deported. I’m clear as a bell on this. We will fall if they are not deported.”
Trump’s sharing of the message is notable given his relationship with Mamdani. While Trump has been hammering Democrats for moving toward communism with the advancement of several democratic socialist candidates, he has at times coplimented Mamdani. Trump famously had a friendly meeting with Mamdani at the White House after the democratic socialist won his city’s majoral race last year.
Savage said Mamdani, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) “and the other scum who should be criminalized and deported –– I’ll send them to Uganda… before they spread the cancer.” The pundit railed against democratic socialist candidates who recently won Democratic primary elections across the country.
“Right now, we have open Marxists in high places in America. Every one of them must be criminalized and deported. I’m not mincing words, I don’t care what the courts say,” Savage later said before he blasted the Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding birthright citizenship, which he said was “death to America.”
Savage made several more pleas to deport democratic socialist candidates, conflating these candidates with communist ideology.
Trump has accused democratic socialist candidates and their movement of being more dangerous to the U.S. than both world wars and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
“They use the word social democrat because it sounds so nice, but it’s really communism you’re talking about,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office late last month.
Democrats have seized on the issue of affordability as inflation continues to rise under the Trump administration. Trump, however, has accused the far left of making promises it cannot keep, saying that it is “too easy to get elected, giving everything away.”
The victories by democratic socialist candidates have also led to discussions within the Democratic Party, with some welcoming the wins and others fearing the party could lose races in the fall if it is seen as too extreme.
A recent poll from The Economist/YouGov found that 1 in 3 Americans said they are willing to back a democratic socialist in an election, while 45 percent said they would not. Pollsters also found that 32 percent of respondents see socialism in a “very favorable” or “somewhat favorable” light, though slightly more at 39 percent said they see socialism in a “somewhat unfavorable” or “very unfavorable” light.
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