Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., ripped into President Donald Trump over a recent comment about socialism is America.

“‘America will never be a socialist country,’ President Trump said as he launched his bid for re-election last week,” Sanders noted in a column published in The Wall Street Journal on Friday.

And Sanders, a Democratic presidential hopeful, added: “That declaration was an effort to frighten Americans and undermine growing support for expanding Medicare and Social Security — two popular programs that have long been derided as ‘socialist.’

“Mr. Trump’s declaration hypocritically ignores that he and his Republican colleagues are the nation’s leading purveyors of an insidious form of corporate socialism, which uses government power and taxpayer resources to enrich Mr. Trump and his billionaire friends.”

Sanders vowed that “we are going to end his corporate socialism and use those resources to create a 21^st Century Economic Bill of Rights that benefits all people.”

He said the time is long overdue to end Trump’s corporate socialism.

“I am confident that we will be able to build a grassroots movement that will not only defeat Donald Trump in this election but finally create a government that works for all people, not just the billionaire class.”

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