President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would classify Antifa as a “foreign terrorist organization.”
Trump convened a White House roundtable on Antifa on Wednesday to promise an aggressive crackdown on the group. The event follows his order and the listing of Antifa on the Federal Register as a domestic terrorist organization – no State Department action has yet placed “Antifa” on the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list. (RELATED: Antifa Whistleblower Shares What Pushed Him to Quit After 10 Years)
“Would you like to see that done? Do you think that would help?” Trump asked about the FTO designation. “I’d be happy to do it. I think that’s the kind of thing I’d like to do. Is everyone in agreement? If you’re in agreement, I’m in agreement. Let’s do it, okay? Let’s do it. Marco, we’ll take care of it… That sounds good to me.”
“The epidemic of left-wing violence and Antifa-inspired terror has been escalating for nearly a decade,” the president said earlier during the roundtable. “We’re going to be much more threatening to them than they’ve ever been to us – and that includes the people who fund them.”
“The epidemic of left-wing violence and Antifa-inspired terror has been escalating for nearly a decade,” says @POTUS.
“We’re going to be much more threatening to them than they’ve ever been to us – and that includes the people who fund them.” pic.twitter.com/NCZoXXOwpU
– Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 8, 2025
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other officials at the roundtable also compared Antifa to recognized terrorist or criminal organizations.
“Their agenda is to destroy the American people and our way of life, and this president is standing in their way,” Noem said.
Any decision to list Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization should come from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. As of Wednesday, Antifa remains not on the FTO list, although it is listed as a domestic terrorist organization in the Federal Register.
