Trump Officially Declares Antifa Terrorists by Executive Order
“Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government…”
After claiming last week that Antifa was a dangerous threat, President Donald Trump has officially declared Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, signing an executive order that lays out in detail the anarchist group’s violent campaign against law enforcement, political opponents, and even ordinary Americans.
The White House’s rapid response announced the move on social media:
🚨 NEW: President Donald J. Trump just signed an order officially designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
Here is the text of the order:
Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is amilitarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the…
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 22, 2025
“NEW: President Donald J. Trump just signed an order officially designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. … This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.
Sec. 2. Designation as a Domestic Terrorist Organization. … I hereby designate Antifa as a ‘domestic terrorist organization.’”
The official White House fact sheet underscores the danger Antifa poses:
“Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide… Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity… This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.”
The administration also released a detailed list of Antifa’s recent history of violence:
“In July 2025, members of an Antifa cell ambushed officers at an ICE facility in Texas… In February 2024, a transgender Antifa terrorist detonated an explosive device outside the office of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall… In 2020, Antifa terrorists designated a substantial portion of the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle as a so-called ‘autonomous zone,’ leading to multiple deaths and injuries… In 2017, an anti-Trump socialist opened fire on Members of Congress playing baseball, wounding Rep. Steve Scalise and four others.”
Predictably, MSNBC’s opinion section rushed to provide cover for its ideological allies. In a piece dripping with condescension, the network dismissed the order as “MAGA’s hysterical rendering” and sneered that:
“Antifa isn’t an organization. There is no legal statute with which to declare antifa a ‘major terrorist organization.’ Nor does antifa have a network of rich, shadowy benefactors who can be unmasked.”
This is laughable coming from a media outlet that has spent years downplaying left-wing violence while hyping “threats” from conservatives. MSNBC portrays Antifa as little more than a ragtag band of misunderstood idealists, but the record of firebombs, assassinations, riots, and attempted bombings speaks louder than their spin. Pretending Antifa doesn’t exist as an organized threat is as absurd as claiming the autonomous zones in Portland and Seattle were just community block parties.
The American people know better. Antifa is not folklore or a figment of Trump’s imagination. It is a radical network of militants bent on silencing opponents through fear, chaos, and violence. Trump’s executive order makes clear that the federal government will no longer look the other way while the Left’s street enforcers wreak havoc.
Antifa is what the president says it is: a dangerous, radical, left-wing terrorist enterprise, and no amount of MSNBC handwringing will change that.
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Words on paper < decisive action.
I’ll put off celebrating until I see people being sentenced to very long prison terms.
Every action needs to start with words like this.
This is the first step.
Cell base organizations are explicitly designed to avoid being seen as organizations. But they are financed.
Yep. Antifa isn’t an organization where they have one chain of command but there is an organization. They work together when needed.
That’s not an organization. Independent people working together on a strictly ad hoc basis is not an organization.
“Antifa isn’t an organization. There is no legal statute with which to declare antifa a ‘major terrorist organization.’ Nor does antifa have a network of rich, shadowy benefactors who can be unmasked.”
I didn’t realize you need membership cards to be an organization. With that said it does exist. Plenty of groups out there calling themselves Antifa. Like the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club.
And yes, Antifa does have benefactors. All that gear and signs don’t just show up on its own.
Of course, the question is will anyone in the DOJ actually go after Antifa?
They have chapters with websites.
e.g. https://www.rosecityantifa.org/
What makes you think that’s a chapter of anything? What on the site says so?
You need some kind of structure, and some form of membership. There’s no evidence that Antifa has any.
Plenty of groups using the name doesn’t make it an organization. There’s no evidence of any link between those groups.
That doesn’t show the existence of a network of benefactors, or of one benefactor who links all the separate groups. All it means is that each separate group has resources of its own, most likely from its own members. Someone puts up a design and each group prints it off and runs with it.
And they wear masks!!! I though the left hated masks?
Nothing worse than fascists pretending to be antifascists.
Why declare it a terrorist organization? All the FBI has to do is use their expertise to track their financing (FBI recruitment focuses on accounting and law degrees before law enforcement background) while sending in confidential human sources to gather evidence. In other words their bread and butter work.
The fact that antifa exists and it takes an executive order to recognize them means only one thing: the FBI — and our government — always knew of their existence and let them operate unmolested.
No reason at all, because there is no such designation. This is just a stupid press release, with no legal effect.
Neither of those things are in evidence.
Follow the money, prosecute and deport!!!
Prosecute whom, for what? If an individual can be shown to have knowingly conspired to commit a specific crime, of course that person can and should be prosecuted. But where’s the evidence that that has happened? Merely giving money to some people, without any understanding that it is to be used to commit crimes, is not a crime. And this so-called “designation” doesn’t change that, because there’s no such thing.
And deport?! US citizens can’t be deported, no matter what they do.
lefty: antifa is a political group that trump is trying to silence
bk them via their gang leaders and start with the congress who supports them
Unfortunately, this is one of the many things Trump has done that is only ceremonial. There is only a definition of ‘domestic terrorist organization’ in the US code. There are no additional authorities or actions that are triggered by this, which is very much unlike what happens when POTUS declares something a FOREIGN Terrorist Organization. That declaration has real teeth associated with it. IOW, this helps win a news cycle but beyond that, it’s meaningless.
even freedom of speech etc is “only ceremonial” if you are not willing to back it up with force when need be
I’m thinking Antifa is Trump’s test case. He’s going to use it to shake the gremlins out of the declaration system. Once he has all his bricks in the wall, then he’ll declare the Democrat Party and make it stick.
What “declaration system”? There isn’t one. He’s blowing hot air.
“All enemies, foreign and domestic.” I think that’s all we’ve ever needed.
Domestic enemies are entitled to due process whereas foreign enemies are not.
Nope. Domestic enemies don’t get due process either. But “enemy” means someone who is literally waging actual war against the USA. Not any kind of metaphorical “war”, but actual armed combat against US troops, as part of an actual rebel army with a command structure and everything. Such people can be shot on the battlefield with no trial. If arrested they can be held as prisoners of war with no habeas corpus (other than to determine that they are in fact enemy soldiers, if they dispute this).
‘Bout Damn Time!
Would love a “Shoot On Sight” executive order to go along with it.
This is an attack on homicidal transsexuals.
Oo-rah.
You’re a John Ross reader; are you a jarhead, too?
No. But I know when oo-rah is called for.
As others have pointed out, this ‘designation’ means nothing. There is no provision in US law to allow the designation of a domestic criminal enterprise a ‘terrorist organization’ in the same way there is in designating a foreign organization a FTO. Look at the stark differences between the Executive Order designating Ansar Allah (Houthis) a FTO earlier this year…
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14175-designation-ansar-allah-foreign-terrorist-organization
And this Antifa Executive Order.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/
The former begins by citing the statutory authority (section 219 of the INA, 8 USC § 1189) used by POTUS to make such a designation. There is no such citation on the Antifa Order…because no such statutory authority exists. We don’t want to live in a country when a president could unilaterally weild such a power, domestically.
Exactly. I’ve been pointing this out for a long time here, and got nothing but derision for my trouble. But it’s the plain truth. There is no such thing as a “designated domestic terror organization”.
will Congess follow up with legislation?
Start by finding out which FBI agents assisted in the coordination of the Antifa attacks in Portland and Minneapolis. Because it is pretty clear Antifa was protected in both instances.
Do we have any reason to believe the FBI was even in the loop? Biden sure would not have sent them.
These would’ve been of the same rogue nature as Obama’s crew thru Trump’s first term.
1) Can their previous acts prior to designation be prosecuted as terrorism
2) Their acts of violence (current and future) against citizens and journalists?
3) what is litmus test of proving one of their thugs is one of them?
4) Are their personal bank accounts targets?
5) Are those who funded them previously INCLUDING state and city governments going to be held accountable… are those funds going to be targeted?
6) Are their phone and comms networks surveill-able with this designation and are those they come in contact with subject to surveillance? ( just like Biden FBI did with J6?)
and a dozen other questions.
Oh- and I hope he puts Guiliani in charge of going after these mofos.
#1 not a lawyer, but wouldn’t that be ex post facto
Yes, it would. A5 prevents that.
But consider this the warning shot across the bow. I would be surprised if the antifans don’t do a little reality testing to see just how far they can push things. They’re now on notice. Next up to bat can get beaned by the pitcher.
The designation doesn’t mean anything, legally. When a foreign entity is designated a Foreign Terror Organization, the DoJ, State Department, CIA, NSA and Treasury can wield powerful, sweeping and UNILATERAL statutory authority to disrupt that organization. It all happens outside the oversight of a federal court because it’s all done pursuant to the president’s power to execute foreign policy. For instance, Treasury can sanction and NSA/CIA can surveille without any due process considerations. DoJ can even prosecute any company/person/organization that has any post-sanctions financial relationships with the FTO. Because of civil rights and due process considerations, Treasury can’t ‘sanction’ a domestic organization and Justice can’t prosecute financial transactions except pursuant to a broader criminal indictment and conviction. IOW, they have to cite a crime (and broader conspiracy) and then produce probable cause evidence to a judge to eventually obtain warrants and an indictment(s).
Everything you ask can be done in the context of a criminal prosecution and CONVICTION. The scope or ability to prosecute such a case is unaltered by this Executive Order. The consideration any criminal investigation must give to the 4th Amendment now is the same it had to give before this Executive Order. Giuliani is a good example because the only way to attack ANTIFA is the exact same way Giuliani attacked the mob; arresting and successfully prosecuting the little fish to get to the big fish.
Any terrorist acts they have committed can of course be prosecuted as terrorist acts. Any other crimes they have committed can be prosecuted as whatever they are. Non-crimes they have committed can’t be prosecuted at all. That’s equally true for past acts and future acts; this so-called “declaration” changes nothing.
Again, any crimes they commit, past or future, can be prosecuted. Non-crimes can’t be prosecuted.
There isn’t one, because being “one of them” isn’t a crime, and Trump can’t make it a crime.
Now put a bounty on them.
Now break the NGOs and well heeled people who fund them. Break the local governments (Portland) that tolerate and support them to the determent of most of the other citizens,
You can’t do that unless you can prove that each individual you charge knowingly conspired to commit a crime.
This is a joke. Nothing more. As I have repeatedly explained on this forum, there is no such designation. It doesn’t exist. Therefore Trump can’t make it.
Therefore all Trump did was declare his opinion that Antifa is bad, which we already knew. It’s pure posturing and virtue signalling with absolutely no legal effect whatsoever. We mock that when the left does it. Why does it deserve less than that in this instance?
It’s not laughable, it appears to be the exact truth. It’s certainly true that there is no statute with which to declare it any such thing. And neither you nor Trump have presented any evidence whatsoever to show that it is an organization, or that it has a network of benefactors who can be unmasked. If you think either of those things are the case, you should explain why, and yet you don’t.
The quote you provide says absolutely nothing about “misunderstood idealists” or even “ragtag band”. Those are your words, not MSNBC’s. And there is NO record that shows the existence of an organization. If you knew of such evidence you’d have presented it; so we know you have none.
Again, your absurd words and strawman. MSNBC said nothing about “community block parties”. But how do CHAZ and its like show the existence of an organized threat?
No, it isn’t, and no one is claiming it is. But nor is it an organization. Or if it is, you haven’t shown any evidence of it.