{"id":37306,"date":"2025-07-04T05:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37306\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T05:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:58:11","slug":"donald-trump-blasts-communist-zohran-mamdani-at-america250-kickoff-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37306\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump blasts &#8216;communist&#8217; Zohran Mamdani at America250 kickoff rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump slammed Zohran Mamdani on Thursday as a \u201ccommunist at the highest level\u201d \u2014 and argued the Democratic socialist mayoral frontrunner wants to \u201cdestroy\u201d the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn New York, they\u2019re trying to elect a communist,\u201d the president said of Mamdani, 33, during a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy who wants to defund the police, take over the stores and run the stores, and have the people hand out goods,\u201d Trump said, noting that \u201canarchy and dictatorships prevail\u201d when communist regimes inevitably \u201cfall apart\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36434086\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/president-donald-trump-arrives-speak-107574488.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump speaking at a rally.\" class=\"wp-image-36434086\"  \/>President Trump bashed NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy is a communist at the highest level, and he wants to destroy New York,\u201d the president continued.<\/p>\n<p>The Queens native then proclaimed: \u201cI love New York and we\u2019re not gonna let him do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.90625;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36434088\" width=\"535\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/107104285.jpg\" alt=\"New York Post front page: NYC SOS; Zohran Mamdani upsets Andrew Cuomo in Democratic mayoral primary.\" class=\"wp-image-36434088\"  \/>\u201cThis guy is a communist at the highest level, and he wants to destroy New York,\u201d President Trump stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerations of Americans before us did not shed their blood, only so that we could surrender our country to Marxist lunatics on the eve of our 250th year. As president of the United States, I\u2019m proclaiming here and now that America is never going to be communist in any way, shape or form \u2014 and that includes New York City,\u201d Trump vowed.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump slammed Zohran Mamdani on Thursday as a \u201ccommunist at the highest level\u201d \u2014 and argued the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,30303,69,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,80,17130,277,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-37306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-communism","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-rallies","21":"tag-trump","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}