President Trump capped off today's White House "Roundtable on Antifa" with an order to his cabinet to take steps to designate Antifa as a "foreign terrorist organization." The Roundtable included a wide variety of testimony on Antifa's activities, and my colleague Jennifer Oliver O'Connell has all the details in Trump Brings National Attention to Domestic Terrorism With a 'Roundtable on Antifa' at WH – RedState.
Trump summed up the meeting like this:
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump ON THE SPOT orders Secretary Marco Rubio to designate Antifa as a FOREIGN terrorist organization
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 8, 2025
"It's what I'd like to do. Everybody agree? Let's get it done. OK, Marco? We'll take care of it."
AMAZING.pic.twitter.com/zUnsyxd3hl
REPORTER: Are you going to work with your administration as the Secretary of State, here, are Are you going to work with your administration to designate it a foreign terror organization?
TRUMP: Antifa?
REPORTER: A foreign terror organization.
TRUMP (addressing someone at the table): Well has that been done? Pretty close, right? Would you like to see it done?
[MARCO RUBiO, I think]: Yes, Mr. President.
TRUMP: Do you think it would help?
[RUBIO]: They have foreign [unintelligible] all across Western Europe…
TRUMP: I think it’s the kind of thing I’d like to do. [Turns to someone else] Do you agree? If you agree, I agree, let’s get it done. Okay, let’s get it done. Marco will take care of it.
REPORTER: Mr. President…
TRUMP: That’s international, you mean, international… Sounds good to me.
REPORTER: Foreign terror organization.
TRUMP: Steve, you okay with it?
STEPHEN MILLER: Yes, it’s true there are extensive foreign ties and I think that would be a very valid step to take.
TRUMP: I think so, too.
This has been a long time coming. As I documented in Antifa Might Have Cooked Its Own Goose – RedState, the narrative the left tries to push that Antifa is an "idea," and doesn't have an organization, is patent hogwash. Websites have contact phone numbers in several counties for people who wish to affiliate with Antifa. Some of the domestic Antifa chapters have membership applications, something that very few ideas do. The video from Portland, Oregon, and Broadview, Illinois, clearly demonstrates that there is a chain of command among the rioters. The fact that ICE agents confronted a complex attack in Illinois over the weekend (ICE Agents Come Under Large Scale Coordinated Assault in Illinois; One Attacker Wounded by ICE – RedState) shows the groups have some organization, training, and reconnaissance capabilities.
Trump has already designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization (President Trump Makes It Official: Antifa Are Domestic Terrorists – RedState), but this is more of a symbolic move than one with real consequences. Labeling them an international terrorist organization brings a world of pain with it.
This is more important than ever. Antifa is NOT a “domestic terrorist org,” it is a FOREIGN and INTERNATIONAL terrorist org, far more dangerous than the houthis or hamas. It needs to be designated as such. That will give @TheJusticeDept, @StateDept, @DHSgov the tools they need. https://t.co/Om1Z1V48VX pic.twitter.com/98WAtG4HFL
— Sólionath (@Anarseldain) September 17, 2025
It would open Antifa's finances and communications to state-of-the-art monitoring and bring terrorism enhancements to all convictions. The thought of going through life with a terrorism conviction will deter many of the casual street soldiers.
This is a long-overdue move, and I hope Attorney General Bondi and FBI Director Patel make it their top priority.
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