Trump Decries Communism, Says Its ‘Breathtaking Popularity’ Turns to ‘Death, Destruction, Squalor’

‘Free enterprise is tougher to sell, but that’s what’s made our country great,’ the president said.

President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the Oval Office of the White House on June 3, 2026. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on June 3, President Donald Trump decried communism, saying that the ideology leads to “death, destruction, and squalor.”

Trump said that the “free houses,” “free food,” and “free everything” offered by communist ideas “eventually ... ends, and it leads to death, destruction, and squalor—100 percent of the time.”