President Donald Trump stood in front of a crowd of law enforcement officers on Long Island and asked a question a lot of New Yorkers are probably asking themselves right now.
The name Darializa Avila Chevalier had barely registered nationally — until Trump made sure it did.
And what he said about the DSA-backed congressional nominee who called police officers “pigs” left the room booing.
Trump Calls Out the Nominee at Nassau County Police Academy
Trump traveled to the David S Mack Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden City, New York, where he visited the Nassau County Police Academy to highlight the FBI’s 2025 Crime Statistics Report and rally support for local Republican candidates ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel made the trip with him.
Trump declared that “every category of violent crime has dropped massively” since he returned to office, praising the “men and women who put their lives on the line” to protect American citizens.
Trump pointed to an executive order he signed directing that anyone convicted of killing a police officer should face the death penalty, and noted that last year, deaths of law enforcement officers in the line of duty fell to an 80-year low.
Then he turned to the Democrat Party’s latest gift to Republicans in New York.
“One of Mayor Mamdani’s closest allies in New York, Darializa Avila — have you — I’ve never heard of her. Who the hell is she?” Trump questioned, prompting “boos” from the crowd. The president continued, saying that she “called police pigs,” imitating, “‘They’re pigs.’ She said, ‘They’re pigs!’ And, uh, she said that, uh, ‘End policing full stop.’ That was her — that’s her campaign. That’s what she says — ‘End policing full stop.'”
Trump went on to call out “full-fledged Palestinian” Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), “crazy” Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who he said has “done such a poor job” in the state.
Who Is Darializa Avila Chevalier and How Did She Get Here
Chevalier, whose campaign was backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, won New York’s Democrat primary in June, ousting sitting Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-NY).
With more than 86% of the expected vote in, Avila Chevalier had 49.4% of votes and Espaillat had 45.9%. Not exactly a mandate, but enough to send a five-term incumbent home.
Before the primary election, CNN’s KFile revealed that she deleted past controversial tweets, including a 2021 repost of a message that declared, “ALL PIGS EVERYWHERE ARE HARAM,” an Arabic term meaning something that is forbidden, and a 2020 reply to another user in which she described “abolishing” the police as “ending policing full stop.”
She deleted the posts. But the internet doesn’t forget, and neither does the President of the United States standing at a microphone in front of hundreds of cops.
Avila Chevalier is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and was one of the congressional candidates Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed leading up to the primary. Mamdani’s endorsement reportedly came after he had privately promised to back Espaillat — a detail that says something about how the DSA machine operates in New York City right now.
Avila Chevalier is a PhD student at the City University of New York and a political organizer. She works at a public defender’s office. Her campaign leaned hard into opposition to US support for Israel and hostility to immigration enforcement. She beat a sitting congressman who chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Trump put the choice plainly at the Long Island event: “Hochul and the radical left stand with the gang members, child predators, violent felons. We stand with hardworking New Yorkers, we stand with the great people of law enforcement.”
The DSA’s Openly Marxist Agenda Is Now On the Ballot Nationwide
Avila Chevalier isn’t an outlier. She’s the product of a movement that has been winning primaries all year and whose goals are not exactly hidden.
In an interview on Fox News, DSA’s national co-chair, Megan Romer, confirmed that the DSA’s platform includes “abolishing the Senate,” replacing “the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them,” and “absolutely” abolishing immigration enforcement, defunding the military, and, eventually, abolishing police and prisons.
That’s not a fringe reading of the platform. That’s the platform.
The DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” 2025-2026 program, made public in July 2026, calls for abolishing the US Senate, the Electoral College, the presidency as currently constituted, and the Supreme Court as an independent branch. The platform envisions a new unicameral legislature based on proportional representation that would choose and control both the executive and judicial branches.
The DSA’s own program also reads: “End ICE detention and deportations and punish federal agents’ brutality. Legalize migration, grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status, provide a path to citizenship for all permanent residents, and end visa caps and quotas.”
Every country in history that has tried to build a classless society through government seizure of industry and dismantling of constitutional checks has ended up with shorter lines for bread and longer lines for everything else. The DSA knows what it wants. It has written it down and published it. The question is whether voters in New York’s 13th Congressional District are paying attention.
DSA-affiliated candidates and politicians aligned with the organization have made significant electoral gains in 2026, including in New York City, where members and allies now hold substantial political influence. Socialist candidates have also won primaries in Colorado and Michigan, along with down-ballot races in Oregon, California, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Utah, and Maryland.
And Avila Chevalier didn’t just win a primary in a reliably blue district. She did it with the active backing of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has called repeatedly for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished, saying, “As [New York’s] mayor, I firmly believe that ICE should be abolished.”
The DSA has now built a machine inside the Democrat Party that is openly committed to abolishing the police, abolishing ICE, abolishing the Senate, and eventually abolishing the capitalist system altogether. That’s not a caricature. That’s the platform they published and the positions their co-chair confirmed on national television.
Officials at the Long Island event highlighted the FBI’s 2025 Crime Report showing the largest year-to-year decrease ever in violent crime. Trump’s argument was simple: these numbers exist because of policies that treat law enforcement as a force worth supporting, not a system worth dismantling. Avila Chevalier’s deleted posts represent the opposite philosophy, and no amount of scrubbing a Twitter account changes what she actually believes.
The midterms are coming. The DSA is on the ballot in more places than most people realize. And the President of the United States just made sure at least one of their nominees can’t hide behind name recognition she never had in the first place.
Sources: Mediaite, One America News Network, Long Island Press, Fox News, Washington Times, Just the News, NY1, NBC News, WSHU Public Radio
