President Trump is in the U.K. this week, walking the red carpets and sharing tea with King Charles and Queen Camilla in a ceremony dripping with pomp and circumstance. But while the royal trumpets were sounding, Trump was busy sending shockwaves back home. In true Trump fashion, he managed to blend royal flair with hard-nosed politics — by announcing on Truth Social that Antifa is being designated a major terrorist organization.
And let’s be honest: it’s about time.
For years, the media has tried to convince America that Antifa is just a loose bunch of “anti-fascist protesters” who maybe get a little rowdy when the sun goes down. Peaceful dissent, they said. Harmless activism, they claimed. Never mind the smashed windows, the burned-out precincts, the federal courthouses under siege, or the endless nights of chaos in Portland. Never mind that Andy Ngo — one of the few journalists willing to cover them honestly — was nearly beaten to death for exposing their tactics. Antifa’s violence has been an open secret, and yet somehow, no one in the Biden administration ever seemed too bothered by it.
But Trump? He’s not mincing words. “ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER,” he wrote in his signature all-caps announcement. And he’s not just stopping there. He’s also calling for an investigation into the people funding them. Because let’s be real: black-clad street thugs don’t run nationwide operations on pocket money. Someone’s paying the bills — and Trump wants to know who.
🚨 “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…” – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/irLHCkrX1n
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 18, 2025
Cue the pearl-clutching. The critics are already crying that Antifa doesn’t have “centralized leadership,” that they’re just “an idea” floating around. Sure. Tell that to the small businesses that were boarded up and burned during 2020. Tell that to the cops pelted with bricks and Molotov cocktails. Or better yet, tell it to the family of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was assassinated just last week. Early reports suggest his killer had ties to Antifa’s radical ideology. But don’t expect CNN to lead with that part.
This announcement is bound to set the Left’s hair on fire. Why? Because for years they’ve treated Antifa as their unofficial enforcers, the shadowy mob that shows up to intimidate political opponents while the media dutifully looks the other way. Meanwhile, the same folks who dismiss Antifa as “not real” have no problem labeling parents at school board meetings as domestic terrorists. Funny how that works.
Even more laughable is the Southern Poverty Law Center, which loves nothing more than branding conservative groups as “hate organizations.” They’ll put PragerU, Focus on the Family, and Libs of TikTok on their naughty list, but Antifa? Oh no, that’s just grassroots activism. Nothing to see here. The double standard couldn’t be clearer if it were spray-painted on a courthouse wall — which, coincidentally, is Antifa’s favorite pastime.
Now, to be fair, designating a domestic group as a terrorist organization is tricky. Antifa doesn’t have a corporate headquarters or a CEO to slap with charges. But that doesn’t mean you ignore them. What Trump’s move signals is that the federal government might finally stop pretending these black-masked agitators are harmless. It puts Antifa on notice. It shines a light into the shadows they thrive in.
“You’ve been training your whole life for this, guys.”
The Antifa subreddit on @Reddit has made a post saying why Charlie Kirk and those like him deserve to be killed. To smear him, they reference a Media Matters @mmfa hit piece and tell their comrades to arm themselves with… pic.twitter.com/YeNdCmOhmu
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 16, 2025
So while the world fixates on tiaras and pageantry in London, Trump is quietly rewriting the rules back home. He’s naming the enemy that polite society has been too afraid to touch. The question now isn’t whether Antifa deserves the label — anyone with eyes can answer that. The real question is: what happens when the investigations into their funding finally expose who’s been backing them all along?
That’s the part Antifa’s allies won’t want anyone to see. And it’s exactly why Trump’s announcement is rattling cages from Portland to D.C.
