# US President Donald Trump called on Americans to protect the freedoms the nation’s founders envisioned 250 years ago against what he has portrayed as the communist threat posed by progressive Democrats. Speaking on the eve of Independence Day at Mount Rushmore he tied his anti-communist rhetoric to the anti-immigrant theme that fuelled his election and has been historically part of the criticism of communism in the United States. Trump has been making points about gains by democratic socialists for a week now, calling their victories the greatest threat to the country since its founding.
Trump extols America, rails at communism in US 250th celebration