President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the Democrats were behaving like “kamikaze pilots,” driving their party into certain destruction as they persist in gravitating toward leaders like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Trump joined anchor Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures,” and the president argued that in his mind, the Democratic Party did not have much of a future at all if that trend continued.

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.@POTUS: “The Democrats are kamikazes right now. They’re kamikaze pilots right now. They have nothing going. They have no future. They have incompetent candidates.” pic.twitter.com/6ogVaJPsPc

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 19, 2025

“The Democrats are kamikazes right now. They’re kamikaze pilots right now. They have nothing going. They have no future. They have incompetent candidates,” he began, immediately referencing Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) as part of the problem.

“I mean, I look at Jasmine Crockett,” Trump said, shaking his head and laughing a bit as he continued, “She’s a very low-IQ person. She’s polling okay in the Democrat Party, I can’t even believe it. AOC is — I watched her the other day, it’s like … you gotta be kidding. This is not going to make our country great.”

Trump then pivoted to address Mamdani, who debated his opponents in the New York City Mayoral race on Thursday — Republican Curtis Sliwa and former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), who is running as an independent — and argued he was also part of the problem.

“And for us to have a communist mayor, looks like we’re going to in New York — he’s not a socialist, he’s a communist,” Trump said, referencing Mamdani’s claim to “democratic socialism” and saying that he was definitely a communist. “It’ll be very interesting.”

Trump also pushed back on the weekend’s “No Kings” protests, saying, “They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king.”

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“They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” says @POTUS.

“They made one mistake. They didn’t realize that [the Democrat Shutdown] gives me the right to cut programs… giveaways, welfare programs, etc., and we’re doing that. We’re cutting them permanently.” pic.twitter.com/teTquv1d5d

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 19, 2025

Trump went on to explain that in cutting programs while the government was shut down, he was simply using his legal authority to do so.

President Donald Trump put Colombian President Gustavo Petro on notice in an early Sunday morning announcement, calling on him to rein in drug production in his country and threatening to do it for him if he chose not do so on his own.

Trump lashed out at Petro via his Truth Social platform, saying that he planned to put a stop to all payments and subsidies that the United States gave to Colombia would be stopped if Petro — “a low-rated and unpopular leader” — didn’t comply with his wishes.

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 19, 2025

“President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia,” Trump posted. “It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA.”

“The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc,” he added. “Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Just one day prior, Trump posted about another strike on narco-terrorists in a submarine headed toward the United States, saying that the two terrorists who’d survived the attack were being returned to their home countries — Ecuador and Colombia.

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 18, 2025

“It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route. U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics. There were four known narcoterrorists on board the vessel. Two of the terrorists were killed,” he posted. “At least 25,000 Americans would die if I allowed this submarine to come ashore. The two surviving terrorists are being returned to their Countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia, for detention and prosecution. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. Under my watch, the United States of America will not tolerate narcoterrorists trafficking illegal drugs, by land or by sea. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”