Donald Trump has removed Communists from the United States.
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The Kuhner ReportOct 26, 2026
The extracted claim says Trump removed Communists from the United States, but the post only said Communists should be gotten out of "our backyard" and that he had done that, which is a foreign-policy reference, not a claim about removing people from the US.
What was said
… To those who do not see it, believe me, they live in thin in Fogland. There's no other way of looking at it. And, Jeff, I have to say this: everything President Trump has done needed to be done. Now, on the foreign side of this, okay, yes, we need to get the Communists out of our backyard, and he's done that. Number two, we need to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Remember, these are people that do not believe in mutual destruction. They think they're going to go to heaven by killing Jews and Christians. …
The Kuhner Report · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The post's wording is "we need to get the Communists out of our backyard, and he's done that," in a passage about foreign policy, alongside Iran and Greenland. The claim's phrase "removed Communists from the United States" widens that scope, so the extraction departs from the passage.
Context. A 2023 AP report says Trump proposed using Section 212(f) to bar "all communists and all Marxists" from entering the US. That is a proposal, not evidence that anyone was removed.[1]
Context. FactCheck.org (Sept. 2026) and Reuters (July 2026) document Trump's heavy use of anti-communist rhetoric in the 2026 midterm campaign, including labeling Democratic socialists as communists. Neither reports any removal of Communists from the country.[2][3]
Context. Coverage of Trump's anti-communist messaging, including commentary on purges and deportations of left-wing people, describes rhetoric and proposals, not completed removals of Communists from the US.[4][5][6][7]
Sources
7 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 4 not rated
- 1Trump wants to keep 'communists' and ‘Marxists’ out of the US. Here’s what the law saysapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2FactChecking Trump's Midterm Convention Speechfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Trump invokes communism 81 times in two weeks as aides test midterms messagereuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 4The specter of communism haunts Donald Trumppeoplesworld.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5In Nazi diatribe, Trump calls for mass deportations of ...wsws.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’inkl.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Letter: Trump's purge of 'communists & fascists' borrows ...stltoday.com · not rated · cited for: context
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