There is no leader of antifa – the Trump administration has not named one – and there is no record of deadly attacks attributed to a U.S.-based organization called antifa. Trump administration targets antifaThe construction project began on Sept. 22, 2025, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order purporting to designate antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. First, no legal authority exists to designate domestic organizations as terrorist groups. German leaders have said the threat from one of the designated groups, Antifa Ost, or Antifa East, had recently decreased significantly. Behind it all, Trump administration officials have discussed using the foreign terrorism labels to justify going after Americans with links to the movement.