US President Donald Trump said that 'communism is an existential threat to American freedom.'

Trump added, in his speech at the 250th Independence Day celebrations, that 'communism is a threat to our country greater than World War I and II, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the events of September 11,' according to Al Arabiya.

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The US president continued, saying that 'communism is an enemy of free peoples around the world and it will never work, and it is also an enemy of the constitution, and an enemy of the history of Congress adopting the American Declaration of Independence.'