U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks on the "Trump Accounts" tax-advantaged investment program at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, U.S., July 22, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville ripped President Donald Trump as "too stupid" to understand his new go-to smear against Democrats.
During an episode of the Politics War Room podcast, Carville spoke about the upcoming midterms and Trump's new favorite attack on them, which is to call them communists. Trump has turned to using "communists" as a slur against his opposing party as more Democratic Socialists have won congressional primaries, and the GOP ranks have echoed his strategy.
However, Carville notably distanced himself from Democratic Socialists recently, but he told listeners of his podcast to keep in mind that Trump is "just too f— stupid to know what he's talking about" and explained communism versus socialism.
"Understand, socialism is an economic system," Carville said. "Communism is part of the economic system, also a political system."
However, he went back to his point about Trump not really knowing or caring, saying, "I don't think Trump knows the difference. I really don't. I think he's that stupid."
Carville, who proudly professes having Trump derangement syndrome, even said, "I'm going to defend him when he used communist socialism. I think he has no idea of history."
Trump "has no idea that Sweden and Denmark and Norway and Finland and countries like that are hugely successful countries," Carville pointed out. He added that those countries have socialist systems and "are really democratic countries, have a lot of really, really successful business and have a real strong program for social insurance."
Carville mentioned that Finland is "also hugely successful. There's no country that was more effective in fighting the Soviet Union than Finland."