""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 recently posted on Truth Social. "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!" Related: Donald Trump tries - again - to designate 'antifa' as a terrorist organization This isn't the first time Trump has said he will designate antifa as a "terrorist organization." He issued the same threat during his first term in 2020 during the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests over the police killing of George Floyd."
"Antifa, which stands for anti-fascist, is not an organization, but rather a decentralized movement based on anti-authoritarian and anti-racist ideologies. The word antifa was first used in 1946, according to the Meriam-Webster dictionary. It comes from the German word Antifa, short for antifaschistisch (anti-fascist), in Antifaschistische Aktion, which was a coalition of political parties started by the German Communist Party in 1932 to counter the rise of Nazism."
Donald Trump announced a plan to designate ANTIFA as a "major terrorist organization" and to investigate those who fund it. The proposal echoes an identical threat from 2020 during nationwide Black Lives Matter protests after George Floyd's killing. Legal and practical obstacles make formal designation difficult because Antifa functions as a decentralized movement rather than a single organized entity. The term originates from German antifaschistisch and was first used in 1946. The modern U.S. movement grew in prominence after the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where anti-fascist activists staged counterprotests against white supremacists.
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