President Donald Trump signed a presidential memo on Thursday, September 25, empowering the national Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) to investigate, prosecute, and counter individuals and groups involved in domestic terrorism.
The directive identifies certain ideological stances, including anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Christian views, as recurring factors in domestic extremist activity.
It also classifies support for efforts to overthrow the United States (U.S) government, extremist positions on migration, race, and gender, and hostility toward traditional American perspectives on family, religion, and morality, as potential forms of domestic terrorism.
“These movements portray foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) as ‘fascist’ to justify and encourage acts of violent revolution,” the memo read.
“This ‘anti-fascist’ lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties.”
Trump stated that the JTTF would investigate “potential” crimes related to recruiting or radicalizing individuals for acts of domestic terrorism.
The memo also directs the JTTF to focus on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and American citizens abroad, or with close connections to foreign governments, agents, citizens, foundations, or influence networks, who are involved in funding, creating, or supporting entities that promote or facilitate domestic terrorism.
Trump emphasized that the task force should prioritize investigations into activities such as financing terrorist acts.
The presidential memo comes amid growing global concerns over rising anti-Christian incidents in Nigeria.
Recently, discussions on Nigerian and American social media have revived claims of a purported genocide targeting christians in the country.
Some posts even suggested that, since the start of 2025, more christians have been killed in Nigeria than Palestinians in Gaza.
However, Nigerian authorities have consistently rejected such claims.
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