{"id":70332,"date":"2026-07-14T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70332"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:37:49","slug":"mike-johnson-warns-the-media-of-threats-by-communists-but-ignores-the-real-threats-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70332","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson Warns the Media of Threats By Communists, But Ignores the Real Threats By Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flailing desperation of Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican confederates is ramping up feverishly as the midterm elections get closer, and their prospects for holding Congress are deteriorating at &#8211; as Trump might put it-  levels never seen before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Mike Johnson Warns the Media of Threats By Communists, But Ignores the Real Threats By Trump%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70332\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Mike Johnson Warns the Media of Threats By Communists, But Ignores the Real Threats By Trump%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70332\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-johnson-baby.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump and Mike Johnson\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68124\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The form that the Trumpist retreat is taking is a replication of the <em>&#8220;Red Scare&#8221;<\/em> of the 1950s, when Republicans saw communists in every shadow and around every corner preparing to pounce on vulnerable Americans and infecting them with the poison of Pinko propaganda. Trump himself posted a comment on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70107\" target=\"_blank\">his own personal propaganda platform, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, proposing to outlaw political thought and speech that he doesn&#8217;t like. Just like his hero Vladimir Putin does in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70329\" target=\"_blank\">Putin Prodigy Trump Calls to Criminalize Democratic Socialism and Deport Its Leaders<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking his orders from Dear Leader Trump, House Squeaker MAGA Mike Johnson is mow also fear mongering about scary, but imaginary, communists. Johnson&#8217;s morning press briefing was a full blown <em>&#8220;commies are on your doorstep plotting to kill and your family&#8221;<\/em> tirade. He let loose a blast of explosive diarhetorical bombast warning that the long-fabled <em>&#8220;red scare&#8221;<\/em> is upon us, and our literal survival is at stake. He said in part (because in full it&#8217;s too tedious and insane) that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These crazy little Mamdanis who are popping up all around the country, they are a danger to you and your family. This is not a game&#8230;So we are here as the Republican Party to stand on the founding principles of the greatest nation in the history of the world. It is our duty to do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And we&#8217;re doing it on behalf of all of you. Even the journalists who don&#8217;t agree with our policies all the time. You better agree on these principles because that&#8217;s what keeps you free. By the way, it&#8217;s what keeps the press free, okay? This is essential for your well-being and your family&#8230;We&#8217;re arguing whether or not freedom is going to survive&#8230;We&#8217;re in a war.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mqmiygwelc2h\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiag63zjmvyn5ap22zq6xezt37vtvgcd26jsjjvjxbsbcuqfmnk2fq\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Mike Johnson: &#34;Even the journalists who don&#39;t agree with our policies all the time &#8212; you better agree on these principles. Because that&#39;s what keeps you free.&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3mqmiygwelc2h?ref_src=embed\">2026-07-14T15:19:48.074Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>OH NOES! Not <em>&#8220;crazy little Mamdanis&#8221;<\/em> popping up all the place. Never mind that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is one of the most popular public figures in America today. That&#8217;s what makes them such a threat to me and my family, in the eyes of Trump&#8217;s MAGA-tists.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty frightening, isn&#8217;t it? But Johnson&#8217;s alarm at what he sees as threats to the free press is even more frightening. Not because there is anything rational about it. But because he is so utterly oblivious to the actual threats that Trump poses to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been referring to the free press in Stalinist terms as <em>&#8220;the enemy of the people,&#8221;<\/em> for years. He has filed dozens of lawsuits intended to punish and intimidate any journalists who dare to report honestly about him. He shepherds corporations run by sycophantic, right-wing, billionaires through the regulatory hurdles that Trump controls in his administration. He has even had journalists arrested for accurately reporting his documented words and deeds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70323\" target=\"_blank\">WHAT 1ST AMENDMENT? Trump Regime Threatens NYT Journalists to Compel Them to Give Up Sources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Trump is the one who is implementing communist-like control over the <em>\u201cmeans of production\u201d<\/em> by taking a role in corporate mergers, demanding multimillion dollar payments from corporations seeking government favors, forcing corporations to sell parts of the businesses to the government, and defunding public media such as PBS, NPR, and Radio Free America.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Trump and his radical, totalitarian, comrades couldn&#8217;t even define communism. They just use the word as an all-purpose pejorative to whip up fear in their equally ignorant cult followers. So they call all Democrats &#8211; and particularly Social Democrats &#8211; communists. But in reality, Democratic Socialists are in the mainstream of American politics. They are responsible for things like Social Security, interstate highways, public libraries, Obamacare, and more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a coincidence that those are among the most popular programs in the nation\u2019s history. And that&#8217;s another thing that frightens the MAGA-tists and Trump. It leaves him so discombobulated that he does pitiful and preposterous things like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-x\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump just posted this 3 MONTH OLD article. But there&#39;s just 1 tiny problem.<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s no record of the donation. It doesn&#39;t appear on any FEC campaign finance reports TO Mike Johnson or his campaign committees, or on any FEC report for donations FROM Trump or his fundraising PACs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9msjyWUmBN\">pic.twitter.com\/9msjyWUmBN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/2077083392248840464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70285\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Himself Confirms that He is the Most Deviant Lawbreaker in Presidential History<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70252\" target=\"_blank\">BE AFRAID! 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Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,14,1,8,16],"tags":[1215,554,1140,95,1504,1133],"class_list":["post-70332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-free-press","category-general","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-media","tag-mike-johnson","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-johnson-baby.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-iio","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70098,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70098","url_meta":{"origin":70332,"position":0},"title":"WHUT? 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