In a social media post, the US president called Democrat Janeese Lewis George a ‘communist’ who would destroy the capital city
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAgence France-PressePublished: 6:02am, 29 Jun 2026US President Donald Trump lashed out on Sunday at Washington’s presumptive next mayor, calling her a communist who would destroy the capital city, even as he touted grandiose building projects including the refurbishment of a golf course.
Trump said in the Truth Social post that he would meet Janeese Lewis George, who prevailed in the Democratic Party mayoral primary on Tuesday which all but assures that she will win November’s election in the heavily Democratic city.
But Trump warned that he would not let Washington, which he claimed to have made a “Safe and Prestigious Community” again with the deployment of National Guard troops, “be destroyed by a Communist adherent”.
Trump recently has ramped up his use of the word “communist” to describe political foes, including referring to three winners of Democratic primaries last week in New York City backed by leftist Mayor Zohran Mamdani as “godless communists”.
Like Mamdani, Lewis George identifies as a democratic socialist, not a communist.
In a lengthy second post, Trump bragged about steps he has taken to beautify Washington, including resurfacing the bottom of the Reflecting Pool with an “American flag blue” coating used in swimming pools.
But since its installation, the coating has begun to peel off and algae has turned the water green – a persistent problem over the years.
