Donald Trump is once again warning about the “radical left.”
Speaking from the Oval Office on Thursday, he said right-wing Americans could strike back if attacks on conservatives and immigration officers continue.
“The radical left is causing the problem. They’re out of control,” Trump said. He made the comments after the attack on an ICE facility in Dallas, where one detainee was killed and two others were injured.
Trump also took aim at Democrats. “They’re saying things, and they’re really dumb people, and I look at [Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine] Crockett, I look at some of these people that are very low-IQ people, actually. But the radical left is causing this problem, not the right.”
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He then warned things could spiral. “It’s going to get worse, and ultimately it’s going to go back on them,” he predicted. “I don’t want to see that happen either. I’m the president of all the people. But the radical left is causing this. Radical-left Democrats are causing this problem, and it gets worse, it gets worse, and it’ll be a point where other people won’t take it anymore. That will not be good for the radical left. And we don’t want that.”
🚨OH MY GOD. Trump openly threatens a violent response by the right:
⁰“The radical left is causing the problem…and…it’s going to go back on them…the right is a lot tougher than the left…And they better not get them energized.”This is disgusting.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) September 25, 2025
Just days earlier, at a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Trump made his feelings clear. “[Kirk] did not hate his opponents,” Trump said. “He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them.”
The New York Post quickly framed the Dallas attack as tied to Democrats. Its front page ran the headline, “Left Hate Leads to Murder” next to a photo of shooter Joshua Jahn.
Some Republicans tried to soften his words. Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Tuesday, “I think the president was joking.”
Trump has done this before. In his first term, right-wing groups and left-wing activists often clashed in cities like Washington and Portland.
In 2020, after anti-police protests and riots spread nationwide, street fights became common. That year’s election, which Joe Biden won, added even more tension.
During one of the 2020 debates with Biden, Trump downplayed violence from the right and shifted blame to the left. He told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” but added, “I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem.”
Democrats accused him of giving encouragement to extremist groups. Months later, members of the Proud Boys helped lead the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. That event sparked Trump’s second impeachment and dozens of criminal charges for those involved. Trump has since called the prosecutions a “witch hunt.”
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