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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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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.
Antifa is so 2016 dude, it doesn’t exist anymore.
It’s another distraction for his base to not realize they are being screwed so royally by their daddy trump.
You can’t just declare random people who hate Nazis a terrorist group and then ignore proud boys, the KKK, and MAGA.
You are completely wrong. Antifa always exists. Anyone that is against fascism is “antifa.” It isn’t an organization. It’s ideology. Antifa = Freedom.
Antifa has no roster or structure. That’s why designating antifa a terror organization is such a powerful move: if you are opposed to Trump, you are antifa, and therfore a terrorist.
You say that but that is what they are doing.
Who is going to stop them? There’s nobody left. This shit will go from ugly and stupid to uglier and stupider. There is no bottom to this.
What a fucking dip shit. “Look, a distraction!”
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.
Prominent figures are already talking about the need to proscribe the violent and dangerous Democratic party. The US is cooked.
New nation incoming…
What’s really bad about this is that the moment you are officially labelled by the government as a terrorist they can violate any rights you have
Which is exactly why it was a mistake to decide that human rights no longer apply to icky terrorists.
Which is why you shouldn’t put a criminal fascist madman in charge of your country.
Maybe Antifa have the Epstein files
Anti antifa = pro fascism
Is this admitting now that they are straight up fascists?
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.
They’ve been using antifa as a boogyman for a while, but now anyone who opposes fascism is a terrorist. So if you’re against Trump, you’ll have the full power of the PATRIOT act and Homeland Security coming after you. Very fucked
Up next, Trump designates the Tooth Fairy, the Boogieman, Big Foot, and all left wing extremist influencers as terrorists.
That would be less dangerous. They can accuse pretty much anyone of being antifa…
They already do that.
Well, that’s cool. Can we apply for asylum in Canada yet?
Canada still considers the USA a safe nation; refugees cannot enter Canada from the USA and apply for asylum.
Canada will not shelter terrorist designees from the us. Few countries would. None you would want to move to.
White Supremacists tried to assassinate him, twice, and he’s terrified of Antifa for… reasons.
Right wing nutjob shoots right wing nutjob and this is obviously the fault of the left wing.
Is this something I’m too Canadian to understand?
Just rename themselves Constitutionalists.
Why wouldn’t he? It’s not like there’s any resistance.
