The Brief President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he plans to designate antifa as a "major terrorist organization." President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was designating antifa as a "major terrorist organization." What they're saying:"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 ORGANISATION," Trump wrote in part on his Truth Social account. In July 2019, Cassidy and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced a resolution in the Senate to condemn the violent acts of antifa and to designate the group a domestic terror organization. In 2020, in the midst of the George Floyd protests, Trump also raised the idea of designating antifa as a terror organization.