President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday morning UK time.
It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the designation, and Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership, making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted.
“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump wrote. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
A White House official told CNN, “This is just one of many actions the president will take to address left wing organizations that fuel political violence.”
Trump — who’s overseas for a formal state visit — signaled the move earlier this week in remarks from the Oval Office following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
To bring some nuance here: many times “antifa” labels anything that’s different as fascist without doing proper research. For example, people doing viking/medieval cosplay for fun. Not to say that antifa are terrorists, just to say usually they are oppressing people by false accusations in my experience.
maybe it happens sometimes but by and large no antifa doesn’t label anything different as “fascist” from my experience
Problem isn’t Antifa, it’s everyone else that ran the term into the ground. Nazi should be the worst insult imaginable. But we ruined it and they now used it against us. Soon they’ll proudly call themselves Nazis to “sitck it to libs!” Zero irony.