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.
ARREST STARMER AND LAMMY, War criminal, authoritarian, pandering orwellian pieces of shit. Ironically got so bad the conservative MPs, same people who got absolutely finessed by russian donors, lobbyists and spies started pushing back on pissraeli ties and weapon donations.
The labour party inherited the shittest govt of all time, and somehow decided to do an even worse job in only a year. Suppressing freedom of speech, passing the Orwellian online safety act, and using the dystopian terrorist act to arrest people for disagreeing with them with no due process, and doubling down on austerity, and also blaming migrants. All this shit is fuelling the far right and amplifying their racist voices 100x.
Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle
We in UK are fucked. Labour is the best government we’ll have for the next 20 years. This is only going down hill.
Bro are u high, they are literally worse than the late tory govt, which might’ve had the worse stinker any european govt has had since yugoslavia. We aren’t a 2 party state unlike the states, the lib dems won a record 72 seats in the last election and Corbyn just founded his new Your Party. Lib Dems are the most promising established party in Parliament right now and Corbyn’s Your Party is gaining traction and support due to the weight of Jezza’s name.
I hope reform doesn’t win, but my area is looking bleak. Too many at work are openly open reform. But you couldn’t find a whiter area, so I guess that explains it.
Call me pessimistic, but I don’t have faith in general public voting in their favour any time soon. Too easily manipulated.