But is he wrong?
President Trump on Democrats: “Well the one thing is we have jihadists being elected all over the place — we have this, whether it’s communism, jihadism.” pic.twitter.com/lXKTujmemv
— CSPAN (@cspan) August 10, 2026
Pretty much everything President Donald Trump does outrages leftists, including (and for some, especially) breathing, but few of his words and deeds drive them into the paroxysms of rage that his criticism of their favorite religion inspires. Although he was much stronger and more vocal regarding the jihad threat during his first term than his second, Trump steadfastly refuses to mouth “religion of peace” platitudes, and on Monday, that earned him yet another in an apparently endless string of New York Times hit pieces.
Trump, the Times announced indignantly, “on Monday described Democratic candidates in the midterm elections as ‘jihadists,’ adding to Islamophobic statements recently made by Republican elected officials.” Making matters even worse, as far as the Paper of Record was concerned, Trump “also delivered another tirade against people of Somali descent, saying: ‘They’re not smart, they have no aptitude, they have nothing going, and they’re telling us how to run our country.’”
Speaking this way is to violate every collectivist leftist dogma about how all the people of the world are identical and interchangeable, and thus mass migration is beneficial for the sake of a cosmetic “diversity” while doing nothing to imperil the host country. The Times would have us get angry with Trump for stereotyping Somalis, and certainly there are some of immense intelligence and acumen; just look at Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Yet at the same time, the Times doesn’t want us to notice that settling massive communities of Somalis in Minnesota and Maine have done nothing but make the areas where they live more squalid, dirty, and dangerous than they were before. Trump, the Times would have us believe, is racist for daring to notice this, but the man is not saying that the Somalis have no dignity or value as human beings; he was merely observing that they have not actually improved this nation by any conceivable standard, indeed, just the opposite, and so it isn’t wise to keep bringing them over in large numbers.
For the Times, however, that is major and unpardonable thoughtcrime, and Trump was just getting started. “Asked about the candidates representing the Democratic Party in the midterm elections, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that ‘we have jihadists being elected all over the place. We have this — whether it’s communism, jihadism.’”
Here the level of the left’s outrage can be measured in terms of what leftists think Trump meant. As in so many cases, the difficulty here lies in the definition of the key word. Trump said that there were “jihadists being elected all over the place.” The New York Times and many others will understand that to mean that Trump is saying that the Democrat candidates in question want to fly planes into buildings and stab random people on the street while screaming “Allahu akbar.”
That’s interesting in itself, for most of the time the same Times and its fellow leftist propagandists busy themselves with telling us that “Allahu akbar” is a cry of joy and that jihad is a benign interior spiritual struggle. Yet everyone really knows, whether or not he or she wishes to admit it, that jihad has a martial, violent aspect. So was Trump saying that the Democrat candidates were terrorists?
It’s not inconceivable, given his tendency for rhetorical exaggeration. But overlooked in the controversy is the fact that jihad is not an optional exercise for Muslims, but a central aspect of the Islamic faith. One must struggle (that is what the word means) to make Allah’s word supreme, and Allah favors those who do this in a violent manner over those who do not: “Those of the believers who sit still, other than those who have an injury, are not equal with those who wage jihad in the way of Allah with their wealth and lives. Allah has conferred on those who wage jihad with their wealth and lives a rank above thesedentary. Allah has promised good to each, but he has bestowed on those who wage jihad a great reward above that of the sedentary.” (Qur’an 4:95)
Still, there are other forms of jihad: jihad of the pen, jihad of the tongue, jihad of the pocketbook, and so on. The goal of all of them is to establish the hegemony of Sharia, a legal system that denies the freedom of speech and the equality of rights of women and non-Muslims. If Trump is saying that the Muslim Democrats are working to bring Sharia to the U.S., he would have a strong case, for they have been among the leaders of the struggle, or jihad, to make Americans think Sharia is benign, and has no political, supremacist, violent or expansionist aspects. An ignorant and complacent populace does not resist conquest.
And so once again, it looks as if Trump ends up being more knowledgeable, and a good deal more honest, than his critics.
Islam is bad says
He’s not wrong!
Maria V says
President Trump is 💯 Right..! I stand with him!
The reason these jihadists don’t like to be called jihadists is because they ARE !
Tony says
Islam’s Muslims are Terrorists of Allah as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”. Ultimately, Allah desires to fill hell with Non-Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 11:119; 32:13; 98:6, etc.).
ALLAH’S MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than diabolical Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.”
somehistory says
If the media people really thought that the muzzie “struggle” was only an inward thingy, that the struggle was a personal effort to improve, they wouldn’t get so hot under the collar when Mr. Trump, or others, mention the word.
However, they absolutely know what the phrase shouted so loudly during the commission of crimes really means and that the “struggle” is an effort to bring all infidels into “submission” to the evils of islime.
Perhaps Mr. Trump should speak more often in this manner.
Larry Estavan says
So, this is the 38th time this year that CAIR has been on TV attacking someone. And the I don’t know how many times they have claimed that criticizing Islam or Muslims will lead to violence. Especially, after the San Diego Islamic Center shooting this year, they have been blaming politicians for inciting violence by saying mean things about Muslims.
But, they have provided no evidence that the San Diego shooters were inspired by anything a public figure has said. While at the same time we have absolute proof that pro-Palestine rhetoric is causing violence. Just look to examples like: Paul Kessler, Aaron Bushnell, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim for proof.
None of the TV stations that include CAIR in broadcasts ever call CAIR out for this. Please make sure that you do.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
He’s right, but then he should also turn his guns on jihadists on the Right, such as Candace, Tucker, Fuentes, et al
Walter Sieruk says
President Trump has a good valid point when he referred to Muslim democrats who have running who are running for political office across the United States as “jihadists.”
To be more clear and specific, they are stealth jihadists. A good example of this is that Muslim mayor of New York City. For Zohan Mamdani engages in the insidious and subversive stealth jihad.
Mamdani had exposed subversive anti- America jihadist spirit his own for denouncing President Trump for his action of an American Israel alliance ,as in joining together to eliminate that horrendously hostile Islamic tyranny In Iran.
For it all comes down to the basic rule which is “Destroy or be destroyed.” For that belligerent and bellicose regime has as to of its main themes “Death to the USA “: and “Death to Israel.”
It has followed through with its words by its continued quest for going nuclear for obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
Therefore, for American and Israel alliance is an action of self-defense .
As the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, rightly and wisely, in a speech had declared “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
Walter Sieruk says
President happened to be rights in calling those Democrats /Muslim in or running for political office “Jihadists” meaning stealth jihadists.
For we may be sure that much of that money that Ilhan Omar has obtain, by hook or by crook,’ will go into that insidious subversive and dangerous stealth jihad. Likewise, we may also be sure that much of that money will go funding, through Islamic shall front groups, supporting and suppling murderous jihad terror entities, as Hamas.
Furthermore, Ilhan Omar, should be impeached and removed from the political office she now holds. Maybe she should even expelled from the United States as a security threat. For even an American Imam had described her as so dangerous that he referred to her as “ISIS with lipstick” [1]
Omar with her stealth jihadist schemes to promote Sharia over the US Constitution as the rule of law upon America is ,in essence, very un-American of her.
Related to this, are the wisdom of former US President, Theodore Roosevelt had, rightly, \in a speech declared “There can be no fifty -fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Furthermore, Omar with her Islamic anti-Jewish and anti- Israel politics and policies is also very un-American of her.
Therefore, That sign is reminder former US President, William Howard Taft had, wisely, declared in a speech “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cur out. It has no place in America.” – Neither should Omar have a place in America.
[1] The video documentary titled TRUMP CARD by Dinesh D’ Souza,
Walter Sieruk says
President Trump is right about Muslim Democrats who are political candidates in the different States of the USA for public Office being what is termed “jihadist’ that is stealth jihadists. the advancement of Islam and its Sharia, There methods insidious infiltrate of the United States government both dangerously subversive to the US Constitution which those stealth jihadists in that the insidious stealth jihads efforts replace the US Constitution with Islam’s Sharia is somethings that all patriots American need to and should aware of
This Islamic takeover of the city of this, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads, “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”