President Donald Trump ramped up his midterm messaging Monday, accusing Democratic voters of electing “jihadists” throughout the 2026 primary cycle.
Trump and other Republicans have leaned into labeling progressive candidates “communists,” but during an Oval Office signing ceremony Monday afternoon, the president claimed that “we have jihadists being elected all over the place.”
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“Whether it’s communism, jihadism — a friend of mine called up. He said, ‘You know, really, we should use the word jihadist because that’s what’s happening.’ If you take a look at what happens in other countries, I think that’s not going to be necessarily the way we want to live,” he said.
“When you look at the radicalism and the craziness of the candidates and the stupidity of what they’re suggesting, let’s get rid of the Supreme Court, let’s get rid of the presidency, let’s get rid of the Senate,” Trump continued. “Sometimes I’d like to get rid of the Senate too, but I don’t say it, and I wouldn’t do it. But they want to get rid of the Senate. They want to get rid of, ideally, the House, but they’re thinking about maybe keeping the House. You know, isn’t that nice?”
The president, without naming specific candidates, claimed that “these are people that have been not successful. They’re people that have been, in many cases, failures. They come from other failed countries, and they come here and they tell us how to run our country.”
“People don’t want to have radical lunatics involved in running our country, and that’s what we have. We have people that are saying things that are so great. Now they’re denying it, or they say, ‘Well, I’ve changed my mind.’ They want to defund our police. They want to terminate our military. No military. We don’t want any military in our country. We don’t want our police to be paid anymore. They want our police down to like almost nothing,” he concluded. “It doesn’t make sense.”
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You can watch Trump’s comments in full below.
