ANTI-COMMUNISM WEEK, 2025
November 7, 2025
A PROCLAMATION
This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of history’s most destructive ideologies. Across continents and generations, communism has wrought devastation upon nations and souls. More than 100 million lives have been taken by regimes that sought to erase faith, suppress freedom, and destroy prosperity earned through hard work, violating the God-given rights and dignity of those they oppressed. As we honor their memory, we renew our national promise to stand firm against communism, to uphold the cause of liberty and human worth, and to affirm once more that no system of government can ever replace the will and conscience of a free people.
For more than a century, communism has brought nothing but ruin. Wherever it spreads, it silences dissent, punishes beliefs, and demands that generations kneel before the power of the state instead of standing for freedom. Its story is written in blood and sorrow, a grim reminder that communism is nothing more than another word for servitude.
In the 34 years since the end of the Cold War, the world has witnessed both the triumph of democracy and the persistence of tyranny in new forms. New voices now repeat old lies, cloaking them in the language of “social justice” and “democratic socialism,” yet their message remains the same: give up your freedom, place your trust in the power of the government, and trade the promise of prosperity for the empty comfort of control. America rejects this evil doctrine. We remain a Nation founded on the eternal truth that liberty and opportunity are the birthrights of every person, and that no ideology, whether foreign or domestic, can extinguish them.
As we mark Anti-Communism Week, we stand united in defense of the values that define us as a free people. We honor the victims of oppression by keeping their cause alive and by ensuring that communism and every system that denies the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will find their place, once and for all, on the ash heap of history.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week of November 2 through November 8, 2025, as Anti-Communism Week.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.
DONALD J. TRUMP
Not really sure what to make of this, to be honest. I looked through presidential records and couldn’t find any other “anti-communism week” declaration. I know that “Loyalty Day” has been declared every year since the second Red Scare.
Why did he declare it at the end of the week? Why did he only specify 2025 in the declaration? I can’t find any mainstream news articles explaining the proclamation. Trump didn’t even post about it on truthsocial.
In 2017, Trump proclaimed November 7 to be “National Day for Victims of Communism”. The date was chosen in relation to 1917 Soviet Revolution. Why was it upgraded from 1 day to a whole week?
Nov 7 2017 https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/national-day-victims-communism/
Nov 7 2018 https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-national-day-victims-communism/
Nov 7 2019 https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-national-day-victims-communism-2019/
Nov 7 2020 https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-national-day-victims-communism-110720/
I don’t see a similar proclamation made by Biden, Obama, or Bush. Ron Desantis has designated November 7 to be “Victims of Communism day” in Florida each year since 2022, but not nationally.
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We thank them for their inattention to this matter!
Conservatives get really mad about things like “Black history getting a whole month” so I think there’s just going to be a tendency toward inflated durations over time from them. Of course, black history month makes perfect sense when you consider that it’s about history classes focusing more on black history for a month rather than being a month-long festivity as such, but try telling that to a racist who doesn’t understand that the other ~8 months in the school year are de facto white history months in many American schools.