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Trump refuses to sign housing bill, says GOP remains ‘well-unified’

7:27 PM EDT, Fri June 26, 2026 / CNN

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President Trump refuses to sign major bipartisan housing bill. Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte for talks on the future of the alliance. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports on the week at the White House.

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Trump warns ‘godless communists’ will turn cities into slums as Dems fail to fight socialist surge

June 26, 2026 4:14pm EDT / Fox News

The president told attendees the Democratic Party’s leftward shift is the most serious threat to America in 250 years

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Americans sound the alarm over socialist surge following New York sweep

Fox News Digital spoke with attendees at the Great American State Fair rally about their concerns over the rise of socialism in the United States.

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President Donald Trump took aim at the trajectory of the Democratic Party on Friday, telling attendees at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference that its recent socialist primary winners are “godless communists.”

“These are not social democrats. These are hardcore, godless communists. They’re godless communists. All communists are godless. They don’t believe in God. This is the most serious threat to our country since its existence. In my opinion, 250 years ago. This is a major threat to our country,” said Trump.

Tuesday’s primary results in New York signaled a shift in the Democratic Party, with several socialist-backed candidates defeating incumbent officeholders. Trump, speaking ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday, highlighted America’s founding principles, arguing they stand in sharp contrast to the growing influence of socialist movements within the Democratic Party.

“Our most important birthday so far, 250 years and instead of speaking about Christ and instead of speaking about freedom and victories of all different kinds, we’re speaking about yet another threat to the foundations of America,” said Trump.

FAR-LEFT SURGE: MAMDANI-BACKED CANDIDATES OUST DEM ESTABLISHMENT INCUMBENTS

President Donald Trump pumps his fist after speaking at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s 2026 Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on June 26, 2026.(Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)

He took aim at New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani over a historic decision by New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board.

Mamdani scored another political victory Tuesday, with all three congressional candidates he endorsed — Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier — winning their respective Democratic primaries.

“For the first time in history, the powerful Rent Stabilization Board, as an example that sets rents in New York City just happened today. They’ve done it for years and years and they’ve been very far left,” said Trump.

NYC VOTERS FLOCK TO SOCIALIST-STYLE FREEBIES AS MAMDANI PUSHES RENT FREEZES, CITY-RUN STORES

FILE – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani accused the federal government of attempting to “intimidate patients, families and providers.”(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The board voted to freeze rents, banning landlords from raising rent on new one-year or two-year leases.

“Mayor Mamdani, who came to the White House and seemed like a nice guy, but he said he was going to do this in his campaign,” said Trump.

He warned that the decision would lead to the city’s decline.

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“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,” Trump added.

“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,” Trump added.

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US seizes nearly 400 websites that were illegally streaming World Cup, DOJ says

2026-06-26 22:45:47 UTC / Reuters

By Jasper Ward

June 26, 2026 10:45 PM UTC Updated 59 mins ago

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WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) – The United States has seized nearly 400 internet domains that were being used to illegally ​stream the World Cup, officials said on Friday, describing ‌the move as one meant to disrupt international networks profiting from the popularity of the tournament.

The U.S. Justice Department said the domains were ​identified with the assistance of soccer governing body ​FIFA and others, including NBC Universal and Warner Brothers.

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The ⁠domains were used to illegally offer users copyright-protected content ​in the form of real-time streams of the World Cup ​matches as they were being played and first broadcast, the department said.

“These streamers not only violate copyright laws but also expose viewers to ​potential threats — including malware attacks and unsecure connections that can ​compromise personal and financial data,” Eric Weindorf, a special agent in charge ‌at ⁠Homeland Security Investigations, said in a statement.

Servers and domains linked to the unauthorized streaming of the tournament’s matches were targeted in Peru and Bulgaria, the DOJ said, adding that ​additional disruptions took ​place in ⁠Croatia, Romania, Poland and Colombia.

The World Cup kicked off on June 11 in the United States, ​Canada and Mexico. Games are scheduled to be ​played ⁠in 16 cities across the three countries through July 19.

Attendance for the matches have set an all-time record, according to FIFA. Last ⁠week’s ​matches were some of the most ​watched television programs, according to Nielsen. The United States’ win over Australia topped that ​list.

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霍尔木兹海峡货船遇袭后 美军报复打击伊朗

2026年6月27日 07:12 / 联合早报

特朗普6月26日说，伊朗袭击穿越霍尔木兹海峡的商船“显然违反停火协议”。 （彭博社）

美国总统特朗普指责伊朗袭击穿越霍尔木兹海峡的货船，违反了停火协议，美军随后空袭伊朗目标作为报复。

这是美伊脆弱停火协议可能破裂的最新迹象。

《纽约时报》报道，美国中央司令部星期五（6月26日）发表声明说，美军当天对伊朗发动袭击，以回应前一天伊朗袭击一艘穿越霍尔木兹海峡商船的事件。

声明说，袭击目标是伊朗的导弹和无人机储存设施以及沿海雷达站。目前尚不清楚此次袭击造成的损失程度。

在美军发动袭击的几个小时前，特朗普在社媒平台Truth Social发文，称伊朗袭击阿曼附近船只为“愚蠢行为”。

特朗普说，伊朗向穿越霍尔木兹海峡的船只发射了至少四架单向攻击无人机，其中一架击中一艘货船的上层甲板。美军则击落另外三架无人机。他说，伊方这一举动“显然违反停火协议”。

《华尔街日报》则引述一名美国高级官员说，尽管再次发生袭击，美伊停火协议仍然有效，美军26日的行动纯粹是针对货船遇袭的报复。

一艘悬挂新加坡国旗的集装箱船长丽轮（Ever Lovely）24日在阿曼湾遭到袭击，这似乎是自德黑兰与华盛顿上周签署初步和平协议以来，已知的第一起伊朗针对商船的袭击。联合国国际海事组织（IMO）随后宣布暂停在霍尔木兹海峡疏散滞留船舶的行动。长丽轮为台湾长荣海运公司旗下集装箱船。

Trump posts new passport rendering — featuring a memorable photo of himself

2026-06-26 6:02 PM ET / CNN

By Donald Judd, Jennifer Hansler

Updated Jun 26, 2026, 6:25 PM ET

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2026, 6:02 PM ET

This rendering of an American passport was posted to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account on Friday, June 26, 2026. The post read, “The U.S.A.’s New Passport, which says, ‘Welcome, but be good!’ President DJT.”

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President Donald Trump unveiled a new rendering of a special commemorative US passport bearing his likeness Friday, debuting a limited-edition passport to mark America’s 250th anniversary this year.

“The U.S.A.’s New Passport, which says, ‘Welcome, but be good!’” Trump posted on Truth Social.

He included a sample passport page featuring an image of him looming over the Resolute Desk, the text of the original Declaration of Independence in the background and his signature on the bottom. The opposite page has an image of the “The Declaration of Independence” painting by John Trumbull.

The new passport appears to feature a rendering of Trump based off of the president’s portrait from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, and differs from renderings released by the State Department earlier this year, which featured a different image of the president.

This previous rendering shows a US passport with a different image of President Donald Trump on the inside.

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The White House X account later on Friday posted an image featuring the same rendering from the Truth Social post, captioned “New U.S. Passport to Commemorate America’s 250th.”

The White House directed questions to the State Department when asked if the latest image was the official rendering of the commemorative passports. CNN has reached out to the State Department for comment.

The new limited-edition travel document was first announced in April as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration. It was billed as “a limited-edition U.S. passport to commemorate the historic occasion of America’s 250th anniversary,” featuring “custom artwork and enhanced images on the front, back, and inside covers.”

Speaking to CNN at the time, an official said that the passport “will be the default passport out of the Washington Passport Agency when available” for those who renew their passports in person at that location.

“Online options or other locations will maintain existing passport design,” the official said.

Currently, the inside front cover of US passports shows an image of Percy Moran’s painting of Francis Scott Key the morning after the bombardment of Fort McHenry — the battle that inspired Key to write what would become the US national anthem. Lines from the anthem are also printed inside the front cover.

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U.S. strikes targets in Iran after Iranian drone attack on cargo ship, posing challenge to ceasefire

June 26, 2026 / 6:19 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington— The U.S. military says it hit Iranian targets on Friday over Iran’s drone attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first American strikes on Iran since the two countries agreed to extend an already rickety ceasefire last week.

The strikes targeted Iranian missile and drone storage facilities and radar sites, U.S. Central Command said in a statement posted to social media, calling it a “powerful response” to Iran’s “dangerous behavior.”

“The unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping by Iranian forces clearly violated the ceasefire,” CENTCOM said.

A U.S. official told CBS News that American aircraft hit multiple targets along the Strait of Hormuz and on Iran’s Qeshm Island. The strikes are now over, the official said.

One day earlier, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck a Singapore-flagged cargo ship, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News on Thursday. The ship’s bridge was damaged, but no casualties or environmental impact were reported, according to the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations Centre, which said the vessel was off the coast of Oman.

President Trump called the attack a “foolish violation” of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, which was extended for 60 days in a memorandum of understanding between the two countries last week. Asked by reporters Friday if Iran would face any consequences, Mr. Trump responded: “You’ll find out.”

The Iranian drone attack — and the U.S. response — could mark a setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which was closed to most shipping traffic for months. Shortly after the vessel was struck, the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization paused an effort to evacuate hundreds of ships and thousands of mariners who were stranded in the Persian Gulf. The organization said the ship “did not transit under IMO’s evacuation framework.”

The U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding says Iran must arrange for safe, toll-free passage through the Strait of Hormuz “using its best efforts” for 60 days. In the week after Mr. Trump signed the deal, the number of ships that sailed through the strait every day surged, while oil prices plummeted to near pre-war levels.

Still, disagreements over the strait have lingered. The U.S. favors a route through the southern portion of the Strait of Hormuz, hugging the coastline of Oman, while Iran has said ships still need to seek its permission and use a northern route closer to the Iranian coast. Iran also hasn’t ruled out collecting tolls on commercial ships after the 60-day period ends, an idea the U.S. and its allies in the region have called unacceptable.

Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority said Thursday: “Any passage through routes outside the framework designated by PGSA will not be covered by safe passage guarantees and will not be entitled to insurance coverage or related liabilities.”

It’s also not clear what impact the renewed U.S. strikes on Iran will have on talks between the two countries, which are set to negotiate over Iran’s nuclear program for the next two months. The two sides first struck a ceasefire in early April, and while that arrangement was repeatedly tested by tit-for-tat strikes, U.S. forces did not reopen the large-scale bombing campaign against Iran that ran for more than a month.

Vice President JD Vance, who is helping lead talks with Iran, wrote on social media Friday: “Iran signed a ceasefire agreement. We have honored it. If they have disagreements about how the memorandum of understanding is being applied, they can pick up the phone. But violence will be met with violence.”

以黎美达成框架协议 鲁比奥：为解除真主党武装制定路线图

2026年6月27日 07:28 / 联合早报

三方框架协议由以色列和黎巴嫩驻美大使以及美国国务院官员霍勒（中）共同签署。美国务卿鲁比奥（后排中）出席了在华盛顿举行的签字仪式。 （法新社）

黎巴嫩、以色列和美国星期五（6月26日）签署一项三方框架协议，旨在为长期交恶的黎巴嫩和以色列达成和平协议铺路。

综合法新社和新华社报道，三方框架协议由黎巴嫩和以色列驻美大使以及美国国务院官员霍勒共同签署。

美国务卿鲁比奥在华盛顿举行的签字仪式上说，这项协议将“为持久和平与安全奠定框架”，“这只是一个开始，未来还有大量工作要做。”

美国官员说，框架协议包括一项试点计划，由黎巴嫩军队将接管以色列占领的两个地区，并启动解除黎巴嫩真主党武装的进程。

鲁比奥当天发表声明说，框架协议确立的进程旨在恢复黎巴嫩主权、解除真主党武装，同时确保以色列在威胁消除后撤回至边界。

根据协议，成立由美方推动的“三方军事协调小组”，协助黎以双方落实框架。美国战争部将向黎武装部队提供超过3000万美元（约3900万新元）资金，支持黎巴嫩实现持久和平。此外，美国还将与联合国协调，提供1亿美元的人道主义援助。

据以色列多家媒体星期四（26日）报道，根据框架协议，以军将从黎南部约6英里（约9.7公里）纵深的“安全区”内两个区域撤出，撤离后由黎巴嫩军队接管。

以色列总理内坦亚胡当天在视频讲话中称，以黎双方同意在两处区域启动“试点项目”，拆除黎巴嫩真主党基础设施，并将相关地区控制权移交黎政府军队。

两处区域均由以军提出，其中一个区域位于利塔尼河以南，在原有“安全区”之外；另一个位于利塔尼河以北，为以军过去两周扩大的“安全区”内一小块区域，以军认为该区域已无须继续驻军。

黎巴嫩驻华盛顿大使穆阿瓦德说，框架协议“是恢复黎巴嫩主权和领土完整、确保永久和最终停止敌对行动、让我们的人民能够返回家园的第一步”。

House Democrat lashes out when grilled on whether socialist victories would threaten Dem unity

2026-06-26 5:01pm EDT / Fox News

Rep John Larson, D-Conn., expressed confidence Jeffries can manage ideological tension inside the caucus

By Alec Schemmel, Chad Pergram, Fox News

Published June 26, 2026 5:01pm EDT | Updated June 26, 2026 5:58pm EDT

WATCH: House Dem clashes with Fox reporter over socialist candidates’ threat to Jeffries speakership

Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., got into a heated exchange with Fox News’ Chad Pergram over whether the DSA-affiliated candidates who won in New York City’s primaries could create headaches for House Democrats and a possible Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.

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Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., clashed with Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram on Capitol Hill while being pressed on whether Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates who won New York primaries this week could threaten Democratic unity and complicate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ path to the speakership.

The exchange came after several socialist candidates won Democratic nominations in New York City this week, fueling questions about whether the party’s left flank could complicate Democrats’ messaging and create new headaches for Jeffries if Democrats win back control of the House.

Larson defended New York voters’ right to choose their nominees and repeatedly expressed confidence that Jeffries, D-N.Y., could manage any new ideological tension inside the House Democratic Caucus, while also saying he opposes antisemitism and agreeing that some DSA positions are not very American.

“Isn’t it going to create hassles here on Capitol Hill? For Jeffries?” Larson was asked.

SOCIALISTS CHEER ‘SHOCKWAVE’ PRIMARY NIGHT AS DSA-BACKED CANDIDATES WIN, ADVANCE ACROSS THE MAP

WASHINGTON – DECEMBER 5: Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., arrives for the House Ways and Means Committee “Hearing with the IRS Whistleblowers: Hunter Biden Investigation Obstruction in Their Own Words” in the Longworth House Office Building on Tuesday, December 5, 2023.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“ The voters of New York make up their own mind. We don’t control voters of New York. In America, in a free Democratic-Republic, people get to choose their elective representatives,” Larson shot back. “The people of New York have made a decision. The people in Wyoming make decisions too, the people in other states make decisions. That’s the way democracy works.”

Pressed on whether DSA-affiliated candidates coming to Capitol Hill would create division and dissension inside the House Democratic Caucus, Larson said Jeffries will “bring everybody together,” arguing he has been able to adequately handle numerous challenges thus far and will do so again with anymore that come his way.

“Hakeem Jeffries is the greatest leader that we can have, because he will bring everybody together, as he has with the 11 separate, different caucuses and more in the Democratic caucus already,” Larson responded.

Larson was then pressed on whether the DSA-backed candidates could present a new kind of challenge for Jeffries, particularly as he tries to become Speaker.

DNC CHAIR DOWNPLAYS SOCIALIST–MODERATE RIFT AS MAMDANI’S RISE HAS SOME DEMS RATTLED

“There was some argument out there that, you know, if this was Nancy Pelosi some years ago at the height of her powers, she’d be able to finesse this — he’s never been Speaker,” Pergram posited to Larson.

“Well, she wasn’t Speaker for a long time either, but she became Speaker and she did an outstanding job. Jeffries is going to be an outstanding Speaker because of his ability to bring people together,” Larson said back.

“Is there any backlash in the caucus about — and again, these are folks from New York, [Jeffries] is from New York, right? Schumer’s from New York — that this could undercut some of them. If others in the party think that these folks are going to drag them too far to the left?” Pergram continued to press.

HAKEEM JEFFRIES CONFRONTED ON ‘YOU’RE NEXT’ CHANTS FOLLOWING NY DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST VICTORIES

Rep. John Larson-D, Conn, and House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, greet fans as they walk to their seats at RFK stadium during the annual congressional baseball game one year in D.C.(Philip Scott Andrews/Roll Call/Getty Images)

“Hakeem Jeffries will be the Speaker of the House, plain and simple,” Larson shot back. “And why? Because he’s demonstrated his leadership and he’s held the most diverse caucus ever assembled in the history of the world together.And that’s what he’s great at, and that’s what it’ll continue to do.”

Larson was also pressed on whether Democrats would distance themselves from candidates or groups accused of holding antisemitic views.

“Will you stand by people if they have antisemitic views?” Pergram asked.

“The people in New York chose the candidates they did,” Larson replied.

When pressed again, Larson said, “Am I against antisemitism? If that’s your question,” making clear he opposed antisemitism while continuing to argue that voters had the right to choose their nominees.

DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKER SLAMS MAMDANI, SAYS PARTY SHOULD HAVE ‘ZERO PATIENCE’ FOR ‘INTIFADA’ RHETORIC

Congressional candidate Claire Valdez, Congressional candidate Brad Lander, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier raise their hands during a Get Out the Vote (GOTV) rally at King’s Theater on June 18, 2026 in New York City.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The exchange continued as Larson was grilled on the DSA statement that he said called for eliminating the Senate and having the House choose the president and the Supreme Court.

“That’s the DSA,” Larson said. “The people of New York decide who their elected officials are. The people of Connecticut decide who their elected officials are.”

Asked whether that sounded radical, Larson said, “A lot of people sound radical to me. Radical on the left. Radical on the right. What’s your point?”

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“Should you stand out and argue against saying, ‘Hey, we shouldn’t have people, you know, throw out the Senate. Eliminate the Senate? That’s not very American,” Pergram proposed back.

“I don’t think that’s very American either,” Larson said before he disengaged and took questions from another reporter.

Alec Schemmel is a Politics Reporter for Fox News Digital who is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but now resides in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Metro Area.

Trump ramps up attacks on Democrats as ‘godless Communists’ ahead of November’s midterms

2026-06-26T22:35:54.500Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/politics/trump-communists-democrats-attack

President Donald Trump on Friday seized on the electoral success of several democratic socialist candidates to ramp up his attacks on the Democratic Party, claiming it was being taken over by “godless Communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.

The heated rhetoric marked the latest bid by Trump to portray Democrats as political extremists ahead of November’s midterms — even though portrayals of even the party’s most liberal candidates as “communists” are far from reality.

“These are hard core, godless Communists,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post earlier on Friday, an accusation he repeated during remarks to a gathering of social conservatives. “This is the Greatest Threat to our Country since its Founding 250 years ago!”

The president’s stepped up bid to label Democrats as communists follows New York’s Democratic primary earlier this week, which saw voters in three deep blue districts select self-identified democratic socialists as their candidates for Congress.

Those primary wins came on the heels of New York’s election of another democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani, for mayor. Democrats could send still more to Congress by the time November’s races are set, with hopefuls on the ballot in several states across the country.

It’s a movement that appears set to push the Democratic Party further to the left. Yet the tenets of socialism — much less democratic socialism — are still far removed from the communist ideology that Trump has loudly, and inaccurately, portrayed as a rising threat.

The democratic socialists rising within the Democratic Party are advocating for major policy changes within the US’ already established capitalist system, chiefly through a significant bolstering of the social safety net. That includes directing greater public funding toward guaranteeing health care for all citizens, providing far more in housing assistance and relying on the government to a much greater degree to lift peoples’ quality of life.

The main tradeoff for those benefits is higher taxes, especially on the wealthy, which democratic socialists contend is necessary to ensure a more balanced and equal society.

That’s a view that has raised the ire of Republicans, and even factions within the Democratic Party, who are opposed to such change — or believe that it’s more prudent to make change incrementally.

Yet even that aggressive platform is far from what would typically be defined as communism, which envisions a government-less, class-less society where resources are distributed evenly no matter how hard or well any individuals work. Implementing such an ideology would first require effectively dismantling capitalism — a step that no leading Democrats see as preferable or feasible.

Those clear differences between democratic socialism and communism aren’t likely to deter Trump, whose party faces an uphill battle in retaining full control of Congress. On Friday, speaking at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s 2026 Policy Conference, he warned that Democrats’ “communist” policies would lead to societal collapse — and possibly even violence.

“I’m sorry to say, but assassination is a big deal for them,” he said, speaking at the same Washington, DC, hotel where earlier this year a gunman who authorities say was attempting to kill him was subdued. “They’re animals in many cases.”

The president also cast the struggle against communism in religious terms, referencing violence against Christians in Nigeria and warning of dire consequences domestically.

“They will close your churches in this country. They go communist, and they’re trying to. They will kill your people, and that’s what they’re about. They want to end religion,” he said.

It was a sharp contrast compared to his evaluation just days earlier of the leader of an actual communist country: China’s Xi Jinping.

“He’s a very smart man,” Trump told Axios in an interview published last week. “You don’t get to those levels where you are running a country, even if it was a small country, you have something special.”

Trump tries out midterms message that focuses on ‘communists’

June 26, 2026 at 4:34 p.m. EDT / The Washington Post

The president, responding to democratic socialist victories in New York, used similar language throughout the 2024 campaign.

President Donald Trump speaks during a Faith & Freedom Coalition conference Friday in Washington. (Tyler M. Andrews/The Washington Post)

By Isaac Arnsdorf and Natalie Allison

President Donald Trump denounced Democrats as communists after self-described democratic socialists won primaries in New York this week, previewing a new emphasis for his campaigning in this year’s midterms.