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 be a terrorist organization, don’t you first have to be… an organization?
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.”
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
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 - × - = +
Edit: updoot for the fix
Reminds me of a video on the Lambda Calculus I watched a bit ago that I was far too stupid to understand XD
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.
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”
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.
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.
Apparently no. We are in a post-truth society, reality lost, it is whatever they say it is. That is until we get some real leadership
Politicians are not meant to be leaders.
The notorious hackers anonymous and 4chan soon to be arrested. Hope they rot in prison together with the leadership of the trans agenda.
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.
How do they decide someone is antifa? Is it going to be just everyone they don’t like?
Yes, exactly.
Mostly true but I’m guessing exceptions are made for speaking badly of dear leader.
Anything not in line with the fascists, yes. Anti-Trump will be illegal.
America seems to want this.
“Are you against fascism?”
yes
“So you’re anti fascist?”
yes…
“We have a confession boys, prepare the firing squad”
…
Firing squad? Buddy, you’re going to Gitmo for a few years of “enhanced interrogation” so they can shake some accomplices outta you
America may be ignorant but the majority certainly doesn’t want this.
What American middle-class wants versus what they’re willing to actually DO about it might as well be on opposite sides of the solar system.
Sites like this have the most informed people with the most thought-out positions and understand what’s at stake and most people here still aren’t willing to organize or mobilize or even ally with people slightly less left of themselves.
Most people are still too comfortable, too poor, too scared, struggling too hard or too caught up in their own lives to want to break anything or rock the boat. Until it’s too late.
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…
They also did everything they could to block, purge, or straight up steal Democrat votes. Any number coming from the gov’t at this point is likely bullshit.
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.
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.
I think you accidentally figured out their whole plan. It was always made to be as ambiguous as possible so they can do whatever they want. Classssic dictator shit.
Anyone who is not sufficiently anti-antifa, which means anyone not a fascist.
anti-anti-fascist.
anyone that is probably black(which trump hates alot he got it from his father), blm, anyone protesting the gop, or kirk.
Tshirts
Literally exactly it.
But don’t worry, we have people ALL over Lemmy still shouting about the Epstein files, so I’m sure we’ll all be just fine.
Every dictator does this
Perfection.
Any resistance will be declared Antifa. Anyone that gets in Trump’s way will be declared Antifa. Anything not Maga will be declared Antifa.
America seems to be at a point where anything that resists MAGA is, by definition, anti-facistic
Sounds like something Antifa member would say…
I guess this solves the lack of immigrant workers for the fields.
See you all out on the cornfields fellow terrorists.
They should send Vance on a quest to find antifa headquarters.
You know he’ll just end up raping couches in an IKEA storage facility somewhere
Again.
He doesn’t even assemble them right with the little wooden dowel pegs to hold the pieces together either, just nuts and bolts.
or dolphins.
send his wife USHA.
Trump is a child rapist
child and wife rapist, and then threw her down the stairs and buried on his golf course.
Nobody cares, there is no law and people don’t listen to rhetoric anymore.
Must mean they’re pro fascist, then.
Oh… it absolutely does, no doubt about it
Always have been
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.
I am deeply saddened that we are gonna need a bunch nore Patrick Henries to make this true.
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.
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.
Now he can target white people, though!
This person gets it!
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.
and then elevating the crime to terrorism.
one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist
Sure, but outside of hyper–authoritarian government, no man’s verbal or written dissent is terrorism.
So being Anti Fascist is now a terrorist org? Fuck you Trump , goddamn pedophile rapist. I say Trump administration as terrorist organization.
No, antifa. The organization that doesn’t exist ;)
The organization that doesn’t exist
Exactly so they can label anything or anyone antifa and use it as pretense to remove dissent without due process.
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.
Once they are in the bread line they will be too focused in their immediate needs to fight.
Very well put. In the 80s, Romanians were lining up for rations. In 1989 the regime fell.
This is exactly the thing they are looking to come after. Stay safe
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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.
Plus a vague label they can slap on anyone they don’t like. It’s pulling double dipshit duty.
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.
Anyone with guns who is hostile to government power?
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.
Yep, and my money is on them normalizing public executions as well, in the name of Charlie Kirk. They’ll continue to mark Robinson as a left-wing activist, push Utah to allow public exections, and encourage parents to bring their kids to watch. Just what Charlie Kirk wanted.
“I want to see executions on TV. Imagine if Coca-Cola sponsored executions. That would be so American, so patriotic. People would tune in. I think children at a certain age, as initiation, should be required to watch. Public executions by guillotine are holy.”
- Charlie Kirk
New nation incoming…
Continuing to march towards 1930s Germany? My guy, you are already in 1933s Germany, you’ve just arrived at the first steps of Gleichschaltung
Prominent figures are already talking about the need to proscribe the violent and dangerous Democratic party. The US is cooked.
