特朗普在近期多场高调演讲中警告共产主义对美国构成威胁。他在7月3日的拉什莫尔山演讲中表示，"一代人之后，我们在冷战中战胜了共产主义的威胁，现在我们的国土上出现了共产主义威胁的重新抬头"，并誓言要"快速消灭共产主义者"并"将他们流放"[1]。
与此同步，美国国务院发布了题为《古巴：21世纪共产主义之都》的100页报告[1]。这些举措的矛头指向民主党内新兴的民主社会主义候选人，包括民主社会主义者协会成员众议员亚历山德里亚·欧卡西奥-科尔特斯[1]。
然而，多位评论人士指出，特朗普的言论混淆了民主社会主义与苏联式共产主义的概念[1]。根据经济学人/YouGov民调数据，公众对共产主义威胁的认知存在分歧：18%的选民认为其为"主要威胁"，25%认为是"次要威胁"，而33%认为"不构成威胁"[1]。
Former President Donald Trump has intensified warnings about communism as a threat to the United States, delivering fiery rhetoric at high-profile events and characterizing the ideology as a resurging danger. In a July 3rd speech at Mount Rushmore, Trump declared that "a generation after we won the Cold War and defeated the Soviet communism threat, the threat of communism is now rising in our own land," and pledged to "quickly extinguish the communists" and "exile them." [1] The State Department added official weight to these warnings by releasing a 100-page report this week titled "Cuba: Communist Stronghold of the 21st Century." [1]
Trump's campaign against communism appears directed at emerging democratic socialist candidates within Democratic ranks, though observers have noted confusion in conflating democratic socialism with Soviet-era communism. Democratic Socialists of America members include U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. [1] Public concern about communism, however, remains limited: an Economist/YouGov poll found that only 18 percent of voters consider communism a "major threat," while 25 percent view it as a "minor threat" and 33 percent believe it poses "no threat" at all. [1]