Trump Opens America’s 250th With Communist Menace Warning
President Trump launched the United States’ semiquincentennial with a partisan address at Mount Rushmore, declaring “a resurgence of the communist menace in our land” that he tied to immigration, and telling the crowd: “You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.” He called for abolishing the Senate filibuster to pass legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo identification to cast a ballot. He headlines a rally on Washington’s National Mall today.
The speech converted a national anniversary into a midterms platform four months before Americans vote — and the legislative asks are concrete: filibuster abolition would remove the Senate’s main brake on majority rule, and federal voter-identification law has been a partisan battleground for two decades. The framing of “newcomers” as carriers of un-American ideas signals immigration will anchor the campaign. For Britain, the temperature of Washington politics shapes everything from NATO burden-sharing at next week’s summit to trade. Watch today’s Mall rally, and how Republican senators respond to the filibuster demand.