By The Epoch Times | Created at 2026-07-22 23:46:58 | Updated at 2026-07-23 01:12:19
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President Donald Trump speaks at Wheeler High School, in Marietta, Ga., on July 22, 2026. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
MARIETTA, Ga.—President Donald Trump cautioned against communist ideologies and promoted investment accounts for children on Wednesday while speaking to a standing-room-only crowd filled with supporters at Wheeler High School near Atlanta.
He said that recent elections in New York suggest a rising tide of communism across the Democratic Party, urging Republicans to vote this November.
“We have some great candidates running,” Trump said. “They’ve got to win by a lot, otherwise we’re going communist.”
Communism leads to “absolute squalor, turmoil, and death,” he told the crowd.
“It goes back thousands of years by different names, but that’s the way it happens all the time. It’s squalor. It’s poverty. It’s death. It’s destruction,” Trump said. “And that’s why we declare again today that the United States of America will never be a communist country.”
The president championed the newly launched Trump Accounts, which automatically include $1,000 investments for American children born between 2025 and 2028 and allow parents to open accounts for any child and contribute up to $5,000 annually.
“By the time they are just young adults, they could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, most likely will be,” Trump said.
“For decades, Washington politicians gave our children absolutely nothing but debt, but [with] the Trump accounts, we’re finally seeing and ensuring that every young American gets a great start in life and a really fair shot at the American dream, which is what we all want, they all aspire to that.”
Politically competitive Cobb County, where Trump gave his speech, is an important battleground area that both major parties are concentrating on as the midterms approach. Thousands of protesters waving “No Kings” signs filled sidewalks nearby, the crowd size swelling as the day progressed.
Earlier in the day, Trump attended a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, receiving the bodies of four U.S. Army members killed in action in the Iran war.
The president honored the soldiers during his Georgia speech, introducing Sherry and Steven Feehan, the parents of slain 25-year-old Tyler Feehan, who was killed when an Iranian missile struck a U.S. military base in Jordan on July 18.
“This is a son who was like a flawless, perfect person, beautiful, beautiful son, handsome in every way, brilliant, respected by everybody,” Trump said, noting that Feehan was on his way to becoming a general.
The president said the Feehans joined him aboard Air Force One after he surprised them with an invitation, as they live near Atlanta.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
