President Donald Trump warns about creeping communism in the U.S. in a speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference on Friday. Trump warned New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze policies will turn the city into “ghettos and slums.” “As this spreads throughout the country, very much like an uncontrollable form of cancer, the country itself will be taken down,” Trump said. “It will be third world, strictly third world. And it’s happened many times before to very big and very powerful countries. But it’s not going to happen to the United States of America. Because communism really is the past, and freedom is the future. That’s what we are. All we want is freedom. Freedom gets you everything. Everyone needs to get out and vote in the midterms. We have to win this election.”

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: This is the greatest threat to our country since its founding. In my opinion, 250 years ago, what’s happening right now. It’s the greatest threat. People don’t look at that. Well, oh, three people were elected. I don’t know. It’s many more than three people. And the other people are being swayed because they don’t have the sense to see what’s happening. They don’t have the sense their followers are not leaders, even though their politicians, in some cases, successful ones. For the first time in history, the powerful Rent Stabilization Board is an example that sets rents in New York City. It just happened today. They’ve done it for years and years, and they’ve been very far left. They’re run by Democrats, and they give landlords a hard time. For years and years, it’s called rent control. They give landlords a hard time, but they always give some increases so they can survive. But they just came out. First time ever, with a ruling, zero rent increases for landlords, zero for the next two years, despite the fact that energy supplies, real estate taxes, and just about everything else has gone up. They’re supposed to allow you to have that zero. They’re giving them that they’re basically confiscating their property. And the one representative for the landlords who’s on the board, I think they have eight or nine people on the board, and you had one who was representing one at like eight. But at least you had somebody, but that person walked off and discussed, walked off and got booed. Mayor Mamdani, who came to the White House, and seems like a nice guy, but he said he was going to do this in his campaign. Nobody thought he was serious. He said he was going to make sure that people don’t have a rent increase, even though energy went up. It’s going to come down. It’s coming down fast right now. I hope you’re watching what’s happening with a low number just now. $ 69 a barrel. That was some people said it was going to be $ 350 by now. $ 69 is going to be $ 300, $ 350. Never hit those numbers at all, even in the height of it all. But what the mayor doesn’t say is that these buildings will soon turn into ghettos and slums, and that everybody will continue leaving New York. And as this spreads throughout the country, very much like an uncontrollable form of cancer, the country itself will be taken down. It will be third world, strictly third world. And it’s happened many times before to very big and very powerful countries. But it’s not going to happen to the United States of America. Because communism really is the past, and freedom is the future. That’s what we are. All we want is freedom. Freedom gets you everything. Everyone needs to get out and vote in the midterms. We have to win this election. This election is very vital. If we don’t, everything that we’ve gotten, we’ve gotten so much. I mean, religious liberty, but we’ve gotten so much.

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