Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem believes antifa is “just as dangerous” as ISIS.
In a White House roundtable discussion on “antifa” Wednesday, Noem spoke alongside President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and a number of right-wing journalists and influencers about the president’s order designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
“Their agenda is to destroy the American people and our way of life,” Noem said. “This network of antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as [Tren de Aragua], as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them. They are just as dangerous. They have an agenda to destroy us just like the other terrorists we’ve dealt with for many, many years, and today is the day that we have a president that won’t tolerate it.”
Noem: “We are hoping…we will get more and more information about the network and how we can route them out and eliminate them from the existence of American society…Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them. They are just… pic.twitter.com/l1hBzviFXg
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) October 8, 2025
Just to catch everyone up, “antifa” is not an organized group, certainly not one with a “network as sophisticated as … ISIS.” During Trump’s first term, FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress that antifa was “not a group or an organization,” but a “movement” or “ideology.”
That hasn’t stopped the president’s sycophantic circle from blaming the movement for everything from the “decimation” of cities like Portland to the killing of Charlie Kirk.
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