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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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Why wouldn’t he? It’s not like there’s any resistance.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IS THIS NOT BAD ENOUGH ON IT’S OWN!!! THIS WILL LITERALLY BE USED TO LOCK UP REAL FUCKING PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE, YET THE ONLY LANGUAGE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND FOR OPPOSING HIM IS “HA HA, HE’S A PEDO.”
I’m genuinely tired of people acting like this is some instant kill move. His friendship with Epstein is old news that is only relevant and salient now because some Trumpians are mad at him for other reasons. They recognize that Trump hasn’t delivered what they wanted, but they lack the understanding and vocabulary to actually articulate the reasons for their anger. What they do understand is accusing people of being a pedo, and oh boy is Trump a certified Pedophile.
I understand memeing on him about it, and I often find it funny, but for the love of fuck, please stop acting like Trump’s crimes against humanity are a distraction. Yes he personally abused kids in the past, but he’s also systemically abusing kids right now for simply being born in the wrong country. It’s fucking disgusts me when people do this.
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 🙄
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.
lol. Who is in charge of antifa? Let’s bring the leader of antifa up here….
Any leadership on the left at all is now antifa. And all can now be arrested and vanished forever.
Publicly speak out against Trump? Now you get to go to gitmo.
yay fascism.
Like nailing jelly to a wall or punching the shit out of smoke.
How long until they outlaw the Fediverse? How long until Lemmy becomes Illegal?
Is it a coincidence that he’s had this bright idea while visiting with Starmer? Maybe they had some nice chats about pensioners being arrested for having Palestine flags
Is the organization in the room with us right now?
So what terrorist attacks is antifa guilty of pulling off?
WW2, obviously 🙄
Psychological attacks in Nazis, even executions, and forcing them into a comfortable & respectful NASA and Pentagon jobs.
Also corruption of Nazi youth via education.
Any resistance will be declared Antifa. Anyone that gets in Trump’s way will be declared Antifa. Anything not Maga will be declared Antifa.
Sounds like something Antifa member would say…
America seems to be at a point where anything that resists MAGA is, by definition, anti-facistic
Must mean they’re pro fascist, then.
Oh… it absolutely does, no doubt about it
Always have been
To be a terrorist organization, don’t you first have to be… an organization?
Don’t tell anyone but I heard the CEO of antifa was Charlie Kirk.
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.”
How do you add “no terrorism” to “no organization”, and come up with “terrorist organization”?
Double negative. minus x minus = plus
EDIT: fixed
— + — = —
It is - × - = +
See, that’s a double negative, so the “no’s” cancel each other out, therefore you are left with a terrorist organisation
YOU TRUST WOKEPEDIA?! DATS ANTIFA PROPAGANDA! /s
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.
They want a witch hunt? Those witches HEXED Charlie Kirk.
First they came for the communists…
Actually, they came for immigrants first. Arguably black people.
Pedantry aside, the poem you’re referencing is 100% applicable.
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
“Enemies of the state”
We’ve been at war with categories and concepts for decades, this isn’t really different.
We’ve always been at war with the concept of Eurasia
That was my first question.
That’s exactly what a terrorist disorganization would say.
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.
as if they arnt doing that already, he was already doing it since his first term. he just need more legitimacy in doing it.
