Former President Donald Trump returned to Iowa at a Saturday night rally for the first time since the 2020 presidential election, and vowed to “take America back.”
“We’re going to take America back,” he declared during a 90-minute speech where he blasted Democrats for pushing the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill that he believes will propel the country towards communism.
“We must declare with one united voice that we cannot allow America to ever become a socialist country. That’s what they’re doing. And I really think it’s a step beyond. I think it’s going to be a communist country,” Trump stated.
Supporters cheered as he called out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for backing the bill.
“All Americans of common sense — Republican, Democrat, and independent — must stand firm and you must really stand strong and firm against Biden, crazy Nancy Pelosi. She’s a nut job. And the extreme power grab.”
“This bill is a sinister combination of job-killing tax hikes and woke fascism that will destroy our nation,” he noted, pointing out that equity is “a code word for illegal government discrimination that they want to bring to everything from education, to housing, to health care to our military.”
“The Democrat bill, contains billions and billions of dollars for unlawful government training programs inspired by toxic and bigoted, Critical Race Theory,” he explained. “It’s crammed with so-called equity provisions. You know what equity means? It means we will take it away from you and give it to other people.”
He urged followers to “fight like hell” to keep the Biden administration from “giving the IRS the power to destroy people like they tried to do with the Tea Party, Christian organizations and just like they have done to me.”
Trump also blasted Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and a group of GOP senators for allowing Democrats to lift the debt ceiling to prevent the nation from defaulting last week. “To think that we had 11 Republicans go along with an extension, headed up by Mitch McConnell,” he jabbed.
The former president did not commit to a 2024 run, but he did unveil a possible campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again – Again.”
