The meme stems from a May 31, 2020, tweet by former President Donald Trump amid nationwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd. In the tweet, Trump declared that the U.S. government would be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization, a move that sparked significant legal and political debate regarding the group's decentralized nature and the executive's authority. In internet culture, the tweet was immediately screenshotted and repurposed as a reaction image or a template to highlight executive overreach, political polarization, or to mock the rapid labeling of ideological opponents. Users often swap out 'Antifa' for other mundane groups to create humorous or absurd designations.