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Published On: Wed, Oct 8th, 2025

Trump: We’re Going To Be Far More Threatening To Antifa Than They Ever Were With Us

President Trump held a White House roundtable on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the domestic threat posed by Antifa. The event featured individuals who have reported on or been attacked by Antifa, sharing their firsthand experiences with the president.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It should be clear to all Americans that we have a very serious left-wing terror threat in our country. Radicals associated with the domestic terror group Antifa that you’ve heard a lot about lately, and I’ve heard a lot about them for 10 years. And other far-left extremists have been carrying out a campaign of violence against ICE agents and other officials charged with enforcing federal law. In Chicago, anarchists have surveilled at least four local ICE facilities and posted diagrams of the buildings online, meaning nothing but bad, accompanied by photos of specific ICE agents that they’re targeting, one in particular, who’s a top person and a great person, a great patriot. In July, approximately a dozen Antifa-aligned militants stormed the ICE facility in Texas and then lured officers out of the building before firing dozens of rounds at police. They were crazy, frankly, shooting one Texas officer in the neck. And in Portland, Oregon, Antifa thugs have repeatedly attacked our offices and laid siege to federal property in an attempt to violently stop the execution of federal law. Everything we’re doing is very lawful. What they’re doing is not lawful. And what the governor and the mayor of, as an example, you could say of Portland, and you can say certainly of Chicago, it’s not lawful what they’re doing. They have to be very careful. In addition, two weeks ago, a radical left terrorist in Dallas conducted a sniper attack on a local ICE facility, killing two people and leaving behind a note that read, hopefully this will give ICE agents some real terror. That’s bad. This attack came the very same month that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a far-left extremist who inscribed the words, hey, fascist, catch, meaning catch the bullet, onto the bullet shelf itself. The epidemic of left-wing violence and Antifa-inspired terror has been escalating for nearly a decade. At universities, Antifa has organized riotous mobs to attack campus speakers. I see it all the time. And these are agitators, anarchists, and they’re paid. And you’ll find that out. You’ll be finding it out very soon. You should see what we have on these people. These are bad people. These are people that want to destroy our country. We’re not going to let it happen. They’ve used armed gangs to assault local police in cities nationwide, and they have attacked journalists reporting on their crimes. So the journalists that report on their crimes, don’t worry, you’re very safe. I hope that’s not going to turn you around. But they have been very threatening to people. But we’re going to be very threatening to them, far more threatening to them than they ever were with us. And that includes the people that fund them, probably some of the people I know, some of the people I dine with. But if they do, they’re in deep trouble. So we’re going to be looking very strongly at the people that are funding these operations. When you see the signs, and they’re all made out of a beautiful, beautiful paper, beautiful, nice, stiff, very expensive paper with beautiful wood handles, all the same, all the same color. They come from very expensive printing machines. These are not people that write out their signs in a basement that believe in something. These are paid anarchists. At least three of these courageous journalists have personally been victims of Antifa attacks. Andy Ngo has been repeatedly beaten by Antifa thugs for his work in cruel – Andy is a very serious person, too, I have to tell you. I’ve been watching him for a long time. Is Andy here? That’s what I thought. Hello, Andy. I thought that was you. You’re looking better than you do out on those streets, huh? You look much better. It’s nice to have you. You feel a little safer here, I think, maybe. Well, not that safe, because you have them. You don’t have to worry about that. But thank you very much. Andy Ngo has been repeatedly beaten by Antifa, and including one assault that left him with a brain hemorrhage. Only days ago, Nick Sauter was assaulted in Portland by a flag-burning mob, and we’ve made it a one-year penalty for inciting riots. We took the freedom of speech away because that’s been through the courts. And the courts said, you have freedom of speech. But what has happened is, when they burn a flag, it agitates and irritates crowds. I’ve never seen anything like it on both sides, and you end up with riots. So we’re going on that basis. We’re looking at it from not – from the freedom of speech, which I always felt strongly about but never passed the courts. This is what they do, is they incite – when you burn an American flag, you incite tremendous violence. We have many examples of it. Many, many examples of it. And it’s actually down on tape. And you see things happen that just don’t happen unless it’s a flag that’s burning. Very recently, Katie Davis Court was hit in the face with a flagpole in Portland by an Antifa radical, leaving her with a very blackened eye. So, Katie, thank you very much. And I’d like to also say that I watched Nick. Where’s Nick? Is Nick here? Nick? Hi, Nick. That was a rough time you went through. I watched – I hope you got my little note. I wrote you a note. [Speaker 2] Yeah, I really appreciated that. It helped a lot. Because it was a difficult situation. It was very stressful. And your note helped a lot. [Speaker 1] I truly appreciate it. I thought it was terrible, actually. I thought it was terrible. So we’ll talk about it a little bit. Under the last administration, the Department of Justice targeted faithful Catholics, Christians, and patriotic parents as domestic extremists. They said, oh, they’re extreme because they believe in God. They’re extreme because they go to a Catholic church or evangelicals, where everybody was under the gun. Unless you are a really bad, sick person, then they left you alone. Under the Trump administration, we’re going after Antifa criminals. And all who fund and support their campaigns are in serious trouble. And we have a lot of records already, a lot of surprises, a lot of bad surprises. It’s people that you would never think. I want to thank Attorney General Pam Bondi, who, by the way, yesterday was incredible in Congress. It was amazing. And she just did it from the heart. And the brain, because she’s very smart, in all fairness. But she did it from the heart. And she did an incredible – everybody was talking about it. She exposed some of these fake senators, these terrible senators, people like Blumenthal that had a phony war record. For 20 years, he talked about what a hero he was, and it turned out he never went to Vietnam. For 20 years, he talked about being a hero in Vietnam. Then it was exposed when he said what platoon he was with. And it was exposed that somebody was watching from that particular platoon. They said, he was never with us. And then he went out and he cried. And he was ready to drop out of the election. And disgraceful. And then he looks at people like Pam, and he starts criticizing her. And she’s a patriot. And they ought to do something with that. You know, we have a young congressman that’s right now in jail for lying about where he went to college and other things. It was, you know, frankly not good. It was pretty bad. But it was nothing compared to Blumenthal. I mean, what Blumenthal did – he was, for 20 years, a hero, a great war hero. And then he sits back and, you know, sanctimonious kind of a guy, looks down. How dare you do this to the American public? You know? What a fake. But I thought Pam was incredible yesterday, as well as Secretary Christine Ohm, who’s really out there courageously. And I appreciate it, Christy. Amazing what you’re doing. FBI Director Cash Patel, who’s really coming up with some great information, Cash. It’s great. Keep it coming because there’s plenty of it. Deputy Attorney General – one of the best lawyers you’ll ever find. Todd Blanche, who I know personally is a good lawyer because I’m here. Thank you very much, Todd. Good job, Todd. Let me ask Attorney General Bondi to say a few words, and then we’ll follow it up with Secretary Ohm and Director Patel. And we’re going to have some of the people around the table – very courageous people. And they’re going to be talking – journalists, almost all. And they’re going to be talking, and we’ll take some questions from the press at the end. Okay?

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