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.

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[–] 355 points 1 year ago (16 children)

To be a terrorist organization, don’t you first have to be… an organization?

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  • [–] 177 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Or at least commit acts of terrorism?

    How do you add "no terrorism" to "no organization", and come up with "terrorist organization"?

    Antifa's Wikipedia page has a similar juxtaposition:

    Several analyses, reports, and studies have concluded that antifa is not a major domestic terrorism risk. On September 17, 2025, Trump announced plans to designate Antifa as a "major terrorist organization."

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's why they want to do it. If there's no hierarchy or apparatus, no Central structure, no actual organization, well that all just means that they can call you a member if they want and there's nothing to dispute it. It's perfect for them.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    Plus, so many of your rights are stripped once you are charged with terrorism, so as they continue to pass laws that bypass due process they can just use this to round up citizens and put them in camps

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  • It’s the same thing they do with claiming some random tattoo is a gang tattoo.

    It’s difficult to prove an actual crime was committed by someone than to create a scary boogeyman “organization” and just convince people you’re guilty by association. It’s even easier when you can change the characteristics of the boogeyman to match the person you’re trying to prosecute.

    We’ve let it go on for decades, and now there’s plenty of precedent. We don’t stand a chance.

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  • [–] 210 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    How do they decide someone is antifa? Is it going to be just everyone they don't like?

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Anything not in line with the fascists, yes. Anti-Trump will be illegal.

    America seems to want this.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    America may be ignorant but the majority certainly doesn’t want this.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    49.8% voted for this, more than any other option. 0.5% voted for RFK Jr so it's highly likely that over 50% of people who felt bothered to actually vote seemed to be ok with it.

    I suppose you could say they were misinformed, but people were pretty loud about it...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Am I the only person who remembers Trump all but admitting on national television that Musk rigged the voting machines in his favor?

    And then all the highly irregular ballots that appeared that are, and I quote, "consistent with vote manipulation" as per the neutral third party assigned to investigate?

    And then nobody investigated it at all because we "couldn't be taken seriously about it" because of the huge Stop The Steal right wing uproar the prior election.

    Don't trust those reported numbers, they are almost certainly fabricated.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The majority never voted for the Nazi party either. It doesn't matter. If they don't rise up against fascism, that's enough for the fascist to win.

    A lot of people were saying that the last election was the choice between democracy and fascism - and still enough people either didn't know or didn't care.

    I'm afraid that the erosion of the education system did what it was designed to do: produced enough uneducated people to allow propaganda to break democracy.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    If you're anti-trump you suffer from trump-derangement-syndrome, ie. are mentally damaged.
    If you're anti-fascism you're part of antifa, a terror risk.

    For both rules and regulations are on the table to help them give you your own cot at a crocodile swamp-camp.

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  • [–] 96 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    They should send Vance on a quest to find antifa headquarters.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You know he'll just end up raping couches in an IKEA storage facility somewhere

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    [–] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Must mean they're pro fascist, then.

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Antifa is not an organization, it's an ideology. To be a patriotic American is synonymous with Antifascism. MAGA on the other hand, is a terrorist organization that has hijacked the United States Government in an ongoing coup.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    This was foretold. Early in this fuckstick’s presidency, they changed the rules about what they can do to “terrorists.” I don’t remember the specifics, but basically making it so they can go all secret police on them. I think it was one of the earliest EOs.

    And the author of this article I read was saying “this is a dangerous step, because the next block to fall is trump labeling ‘antifa’ a terrorist org and throwing anyone he wants into a deep dark hole.”

    Looks like it only took less than a year. Full-on fascism.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They are doing this so they can call any protests antifa and arrest you, call you antifa and a terrorist, then hold you without trial indefinitely.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    as if they arnt doing that already, he was already doing it since his first term. he just need more legitimacy in doing it.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted.

    That's not just deliberate, it's the point.

    By keeping it vague while controlling the agencies and courts responsible for enforcing it, they can declare all resistance to be Antifa (like their media echo chamber already does) and thus terrorism.

    This is literally criminalizing constitutionally protected dissent and then elevating the crime to terrorism.

    “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated"

    Proof positive that he doesn't know how the law works, since funding a designated terrorist organization is already deemed a crime and thus investigated 🙄

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    There's actually no such thing, legally, as a domestic terrorist organization nor laws against funding them, only foreign. The authoritarians who wrote the law didn't expect the government to wipe its ass with the First Amendment so thoroughly.

    But that's just regarding your second point. The administration will absolutely continue criminalizing constitutionally protected dissent.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So being Anti Fascist is now a terrorist org? Fuck you Trump , goddamn pedophile rapist. I say Trump administration as terrorist organization.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Where is ANTIFA?

    When was the last time someone saw ANTIFA?

    Who are ANTIFA's leaders?

    Just another scare tactic to get terrified conservatives to fear an invisible boogeyman even more than they already do.

    Also, let's be clear. ANTIFA stands for Anti-Fascist. In a nation not run by actual fascists, anti-fascism is a good thing.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    This is far more than a scare tactic. Its a way to designate anyone who disagrees with the current regime to be legally designated as an enemy of the state and allow for dissidents to be arrested, held indefinitely, and tortured through legal loopholes(at least until they stop needing to actually follow any semblance of the law).

    This is a major step towards trump consolidating his power and he's wanted it since his first term.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    He is following the Nazi playbook to a T.

    Come 2026, many of us will be arrested with no due process and put into concentration camps for using the 1st amendment. The dictatorship is here and republicans REFUSE to admit it because the fascist is on their side.

    We have to make a decision in the next few months. Continue to work, be a member of society, and ignore what is happening. Or cause massive disruptions that will get change started.

    Sadly, i don't think the majority of the population is willing to fight until they are in the bread line.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In Trump's defence, this fascism started with the Patriot Act. He is just taking it to a whole new level.

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    [–] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    He's going to weaponize this to go after Sanders, Warren, AOC and the like.

    ..And we're continuing our march to 1930s Germany

    EDIT: I wouldn't be surprised that he used this as an excuse to kick out all Democrats from government, just like evil mustache man did.

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    Gonna be real with you chief, I think those are of the least concern with the recent advancements the American government has made towards becoming a single party state in the last few months. The Epstein files were the distraction, not the other way around.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I think the point I'm trying to make here is that if we, as a people, decide to hold all people accountable to the same standards (especially those meant to represent us), then unchecked power like this would not continue. The Epstein files are an easy way to convict Trump for acts he most likely has done. We simply have to hold him to it.

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  • [–] 131 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Any resistance will be declared Antifa. Anyone that gets in Trump's way will be declared Antifa. Anything not Maga will be declared Antifa.

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    [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    Well in this case I hope they can’t legally claim to not be fascist anymore.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    Let me fix the headline... Ahem.

    Trump admits that he is pro-fascism.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Anti antifa = pro fascism

    Is this admitting now that they are straight up fascists?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I doubt many of them even know that antifa is short for anti-fascist.

    And even if they did find out, I highly doubt they would have the normal "are we the baddies" moment. They would rationalize it.

    Then there is the proportion that are happy to be called fascists.

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    [–] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ANTIFA is not an organization, it's a movement, an idea. Anybody who disapproves of fascism is ANTIFA, by definition, and are therefore now considered terrorists by this administration. This move is so that people can now be arrested, deported, detained, executed for speaking out against this administration. There are STILL people being held in Gitmo without trial because the state considered them terrorists. That's where we're at now with anybody who dares to speak out against Trump or joins a protest against this administration.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is him outright stating he is a fascist.

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