Donald J.Trump shares Babylon Bee satire mocking New York City’s leftward shift
posted a satirical Babylon Bee article depicting Cuban immigrants fleeing New York City on rafts to escape what the humor site calls a return of communism.
posted a satirical Babylon Bee article depicting Cuban immigrants fleeing New York City on rafts to escape what the humor site calls a return of communism.
WHITE HOUSE — Donald J.Trump shared a satirical Babylon Bee article depicting Cuban immigrants in New York City boarding homemade rafts to flee communism by mentioning the source (see babylonbee) in a Truth Social post on June 27, 2026 at 8:56 AM EST.
Here is the full post (see truthsocial): “https://babylonbee.com/news/cubans-living-in-nyc-begin-boarding-rafts-to-escape-communism-again”
The Babylon Bee piece, published on June 26, 2026, is a work of political satire. The fictional story describes Cuban Americans in New York City dismantling furniture to build rafts after the election of three socialist representatives to Congress and under the leadership of a fictional mayoral figure named Zohran Mamdani. The joke hinges on the premise that the city’s policies have drifted so far left that immigrants who once fled Cuba now feel compelled to flee again (see babylonbee).
The satirical article includes invented quotes from fictional characters. One character described as a successful Wall Street immigrant says he escaped Cuba years ago but now feels communism is chasing him down again. Another fictional character jokes about sailing to Greenland rather than Canada. The piece ends with a dark punchline about rafters colliding with an iceberg in the northern Atlantic (see babylonbee).
President Donald J. Trump shared a screenshot of a satirical article at the White House on 06/27/2026.
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Trump’s post included a screenshot of the Babylon Bee’s X account displaying the article headline alongside an edited image. The image shows several people standing on a makeshift raft on a body of water with the Lower Manhattan skyline and One World Trade Center visible behind them. The composite photo evokes imagery of Cuban rafter migration juxtaposed against the New York City waterfront.
The Babylon Bee is a well-known satirical publication that frequently targets progressive politics, cultural trends, and public figures from a conservative comedic perspective. Trump has shared Babylon Bee content on multiple occasions, using the humor site’s satire to amplify his own political messaging without making direct policy statements.
In the last 30 days, 10 of 621 Trump posts on Truth Social addressed the topic of immigration. This post marks one of the fewer instances where the immigration-related content took a satirical rather than policy-oriented form.
Source: Zenger real-time database of all Truth Social posts.
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