{"id":164402,"date":"2025-09-18T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164402\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:38:07","slug":"trump-says-he-plans-to-designate-antifa-a-major-terrorist-group-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164402\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he plans to designate Antifa a \u2018major terrorist\u2019 group | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Trump described the group as a \u2018sick, dangerous, radical left disaster\u2019 as well as a \u2018major terrorist organisation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 18 Sep 202518 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>United States President Donald Trump has announced he plans to designate left-wing activist group Antifa a \u201cterrorist organisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on his Truth Social platform late on Wednesday, Trump described the group as a \u201csick, dangerous, radical left disaster\u201d as well as a \u201cmajor terrorist organisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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!\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear who or what exactly the US president plans to designate, with Antifa, short for anti-fascists, a loosely organised activist movement that lacks a distinct leader, structure or even membership list.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, senior White House officials said they would dismantle a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/15\/white-house-promises-crackdown-on-left-wing-terror-after-kirk-killing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cvast domestic terror movement\u201d<\/a> they claimed had resulted in right-wing activist Charlie Kirk being assassinated last week.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, said the Trump administration is \u201cgoing to channel all of the anger that we have over the organised campaign that led to this assassination, to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have yet to provide a motive for Kirk\u2019s killing \u2013 which authorities allege was carried out by 22-year-old Utah native Tyler Robinson \u2013 but many on the right of the political divide have blamed leftist ideology for the assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also threatened to designate Antifa a terrorist organisation during his first term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump described the group as a \u2018sick, dangerous, radical left disaster\u2019 as well as a \u2018major terrorist organisation\u2019.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,3,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-164402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-united-states-of-america","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-canada","17":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}