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Trump classifies left movement as a terrorist organization
Updated on September 18, 2025 – 04:08 a.m.Reading time: 7 min.
Trump classifies Antifa as a terrorist organization. Barack Obama raises severe allegations against Donald Trump. All messages in the news blog.
Thursday, September 18th
US President Donald Trump classifies the left Antifa movement as a “terrorist organization”. He will also “strongly recommend that those who finance the Antifa are thoroughly examined in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices,” said Trump on Wednesday (local time) in his online service Truth Social. He described the Antifa movement as a “sick, dangerous, radically radical left disaster”.
However, the Antifa is a difficult to define, decentralized movement without a fixed form of organization. The classification could therefore have serious consequences for democracy, because if the Trump administration belongs to Antifa, the government is reserved. In principle, every political opponent could be declared a terrorist with this law.
Trump had threatened with such a classification on Monday. Previously, the Trump consultant and deputy chief of staff of the White House, Stephen Miller, said that the government was being smashed the “domestic terrorist movement” behind the assassin on the ultra-right US activist Charlie Kirk.
Former US President Barack Obama warns of an increase in politically motivated violence in the United States after the attack on the right activist Charlie Kirk-and criticizes his republican successor Donald Trump in an unusually sharp tone. “We are undoubtedly at a trial point,” said the Democrat at an event in the state of Pennsylvania. Violence should never be accepted as a means of political discussion. “No matter where you are politically – what Charlie Kirk happened was horrific and a tragedy,” emphasized Obama.
He clearly rejected many positions of Kirks – such as degrading statements about black women such as his wife Michelle or constitutional judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. In doing so, he referred to Kirk’s claim that the two women lack sufficient “intellectual capacity”. But that doesn’t change the fact that Kirk’s death is a serious loss for family and supporters, said Obama. He mourns him and with his relatives.
At the same time, the former president warned that attacks were not instrumentalized for party political purposes. The rhetoric of Trump and his environment, in which political opponents are called “vermin” or “enemies”, contributed to a dangerous mood, he warned. There are extreme views on both sides of the political spectrum. In his own term, however, he had not given any space of such currents. “If the United States government supports extremist views, we have a problem,” said Obama. It was a mistake to take violent acts like this as an opportunity to make unpleasant voices.
