President Donald Trump on Monday designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization.
The order comes after President Trump told Just the News over the weekend that he would designate the transnational Islamist group as an FTO.
The president issued an executive order directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “to consider whether certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood should be designated” as FTOs.
“It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” the president told Just the News. “Final documents are being drawn.”
🚨 President Donald J. Trump just signed an Executive Order directing @SecRubio and @SecScottBessent to begin the process of designating certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 24, 2025
“President Trump is confronting the Muslim Brotherhood’s transnational network, which fuels terrorism and destabilization campaigns against U.S. interests and allies in the Middle East,” the White House said in a fact sheet.
🚨 BREAKING — IT’S OFFICIAL: President Trump has just signed an executive order directing Secretary Rubio to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
FINALLY!
Trump’s order also prohibits financial transactions with them, so much of their funding will… pic.twitter.com/rhFUhLZcRm
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 24, 2025
Republicans in Congress and conservative think tanks have long warned of the group’s extremist influence and connections to terror groups.
“The Brotherhood is the progenitor of all modern Jihadist terror groups, from al Qaeda to HAMAS,” Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Trump and senior director for counter terrorism National Security Council said in a post on X. “The time has come.”
The Brotherhood is the progenitor of all modern Jihadist terror groups, from al Qaeda to HAMAS.
The time has come. https://t.co/asg4qJ5pPi
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) November 23, 2025
The Trump administration has frequently utilized the FTO designation against foreign groups it seeks to crack down on, such as the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and left-wing Antifa groups.
The executive order also comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last week designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations to bar members from buying land in the state.
“The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’” Abbott said. “The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable.”
Congressional Republicans have also introduced a bill to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terror group and ban it from operating in the U.S.
