President Trump is fresh off a two-day swing to the west, where he touted his economic agenda, stumped for Republican candidates ahead of the midterm elections, avoided an armed lunatic, and saved a toddler from falling offstage (and ad-libbed a great quip about President Joe Biden).
During a stop at Red Rocks Casino and Spa in Las Vegas, the president veered momentarily off his prepared remarks about the success of his economic policies and onto the primary results from the night before. Abdul El-Sayed, a socialist-backed radical who had just won the Senate primary in Michigan, was clearly on Trump's mind, and he shared those thoughts.
“This guy hates Jews,” said the president. “Somebody said, ‘Oh that’s a little strong.’ No, he hates Jews and hates Israel.”
“Abdul El-Sayed, can you believe this?” he continued. “He’s a man of hate, and now he’s going around saying, ‘Oh I love everybody.’ He doesn’t love everybody. Put him in office, and you’re going to find out what he loves.”
He was just getting started.
“When I watch Abdul, he’s full of s***,” the president said. “What they’re trying to do, in fact, they want to skip socialism. They want to go right down to the bottom of the barrel. That’s communism. They want it to be a communist country. We’re not letting them have it as a communist country, not even for a minute, not even for a minute.”
🔥 NOW: President Trump is GOING OFF on Democrat MI Senate nomine Abdul El-Sayed for being a full-on communist
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 5, 2026
"When I watch Abdul.. he's full of SHlT"
"They want to SKIP socialism, they want to go right down to the BOTTOM OF THE BARREL. That's COMMUNISM!"
"They want us to be… pic.twitter.com/q9yNKoUCaU
🔥 NOW: President Trump is GOING OFF on Democrat MI Senate nomine Abdul El-Sayed for being a full-on communist
"When I watch Abdul.. he's full of SHlT"
"They want to SKIP socialism, they want to go right down to the BOTTOM OF THE BARREL. That's COMMUNISM!"
"They want us to be a communist country. We're NOT letting them have it as a communist country, not even for a minute."
"Every time this has happened and you [go communist], you go through squalor, filth, crime, death, destruction, embarrassment.. you lose your home, you lose your apartment, and that's where the communists will take us, 100%"
El-Sayed likes to pretend he's a just your run of the mill progressive, but the company he keeps tells a different story: Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and an assortment of other DSA-associated politicians tripped over themselves to endorse him, and he can often be found speaking at DSA events.
Trump's critics are brushing off the president's brutal takedown as just Trump being Trump, but what they don't want you to know is that it was actually a really good takedown of the false promises offered by the socialist/commie set.
READ MORE: Mike Rowe Absolutely Demolishes the DSA's Useful Idiots, One Painful Comment at a Time
People buying into what the likes of El-Sayed are selling expect things like free food, free rent, and free healthcare. President Trump described what they'll actually get: "qualor, filth, crime, death, destruction, embarrassment.. you lose your home, you lose your apartment, and that's where the communists will take us, 100%."
For those who like to quibble about there being differences between socialism and communism, I give you Mike Rowe:
The larger point, and the fundamental flaw with your comment, is that you seem to believe the candidates within the Democratic Socialist Party are both “democratic and socialist" simply because that’s the name of their club. Well, maybe some of them are. I really couldn’t say. What I can tell you for sure is that more than a few have called for the complete dismantling of capitalism, free markets, representative government, property rights, borders, police, prisons, and the Constitution in general."
Abdul El-Sayed may not be copping to being a socialist or communist yet, but he's close enough to earn the kind of warning just given by President Trump. And it's something that every Republican needs to be doing all day, every day from now until the November elections. Act now before it's too late.
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