Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nUS President Donald Trump. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
United States President Donald Trump today said he would designate \u201cAntifa\u201d – a shorthand term for \u201canti-fascist\u201d used to describe diffuse far-left groups – as \u201ca major terrorist organisation\u201d, a move he has threatened since his first term.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be
\n thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.\n <\/p>\n
He called Antifa \u201cA SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump on Tuesday threatened to go through with such a designation after senior White House official Stephen Miller vowed the Administration would dismantle an alleged \u201cvast domestic terror movement\u201d that he linked to the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n
Trump since his first term has ascribed blame to Antifa for various actions he dislikes, from violence against police to conducting the US Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 18 Sep, 2025 01:05 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13790,28444,28446,28447,28443,28448,2178,28449,1888,28450,692,42,661,2683,43,4989,2572,3048,312,28445,7811,9939,1335,8445,18937,1865,40,38,41,39,2179,9938,13797,1533,6730],"class_list":["post-28981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-a","tag-antifa","tag-antifascist","tag-describe","tag-designate","tag-diffuse","tag-donald","tag-farleft","tag-first","tag-groups","tag-he","tag-headlines","tag-major","tag-move","tag-news","tag-organisation","tag-president","tag-said","tag-says","tag-shorthand","tag-since","tag-states","tag-term","tag-terrorist","tag-threatened","tag-today","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trump","tag-united","tag-used","tag-will","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}