President Donald Trump has again decided he can speak for Black and Brown Americans, declaring that millions of those voters are abandoning Democrats and flocking to the Republican Party — a sweeping claim that current polling does little to support.
Trump made the claim Sunday in a Truth Social post as he continues casting Democrats as socialists and communists, using the labels against the party while offering little evidence for his claim that Black and Brown voters are moving en masse toward the GOP.
Recent polling, in fact, shows Black voters still strongly favor Democratic congressional candidates, while Hispanic voters maintain a Democratic advantage.
“Black and Brown Voters don’t want Communism or Socialism — Not surprisingly, they are flocking to the Republican Party!” Trump exclaimed Sunday in his latest Truth Social meltdown. “They remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
The claim quickly drew backlash online, with critics accusing the president of making sweeping assumptions about millions of voters based on race while offering no evidence to support his rhetoric.
“OOF,” one commenter cried out in the simplest of terms.
Another reaction was more direct: “He is so overtly racist it’s breathtaking.”
One person questioned the premise behind Trump’s statement, particularly the idea that the president could speak for Black and Brown Americans as a group.
“I’d never be so brazen, being an old, white, privileged, male to presume I’d know anything about what a brown or black person wants.”
Another commenter pointed to what they saw as a contradiction in Trump’s argument, noting that his administration and political movement have frequently made immigration and demographic change central themes.
“Black and Brown people going Republican while simultaneously yelling that Black and Brown people are taking over the country after winning numerous primaries.”
The reaction was summed up by another response:
“Racist, much?”
And one commenter focused less on the racial language than on Trump’s tendency to make sweeping assertions without offering evidence.
“I want to scream YOU CAN’T JUST SAY THINGS AND PRETEND THEY’RE TRUE but he’s been doing that his whole life and…sigh.”
For Democrats, the fight over socialism comes as they try to capitalize on Trump’s declining popularity and retake control of Congress in the 2026 midterms.
The polling Trump ignored paints a complicated picture.
A Pew Research Center survey released July 23 found Democrats holding a 43%-37% advantage over Republicans among registered voters on the generic congressional ballot, with 14% unsure and 5% backing another candidate.
Among Black voters, the Democratic advantage was particularly large. Sixty-eight percent said they would vote for a Democratic congressional candidate if the election were held at the time of the survey, compared with just 8% who said they would choose a Republican. Twenty-five percent were unsure or favored another candidate.
Hispanic voters also favored Democrats, though by a smaller margin. Forty-nine percent said they would support a Democratic congressional candidate, compared with 26% for a Republican. Twenty-four percent were unsure or preferred someone else.
The figures do not mean those preferences will necessarily hold through the November 2026 midterm elections. Pew noted that congressional primaries were still underway and that voter preferences can change in the months before Election Day. Midterm turnout also tends to be substantially lower than presidential-election turnout, potentially changing the makeup of the electorate.
Still, the numbers provide little support for Trump’s sweeping claim that Black and Brown voters are now flocking to the Republican base because of concerns about socialism.
Trump’s latest post is part of a broader effort to make socialism and communism central themes of his political attacks on Democrats. The focus intensified after several democratic socialists won Democratic primaries, including New York candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, both members of the Democratic Socialists of America.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, another DSA member, backed both candidates in their primary contests.
Trump initially congratulated Mamdani sarcastically after the victories, referring to the winners as “solid Communists.” Days later, he warned that communists had begun to make “their move” in the United States.
“The game is on,” Trump said.
He has continued the attacks since then, including during his Fourth of July address, when he called communism a “cancer” that must be dealt with ASAP.
During a July speech in Georgia, Trump offered another blunt assessment:
“With communism, everything turns to sh*t!”
His Sunday post also came two days after DSA co-chair Megan Romer struggled to provide a clear explanation when The New Yorker editor David Remnick asked about the group’s proposal for “taxing the hell out of millionaires.”
