‘Thanks for the pic’: George Conway dons ‘I am Antifa’ shirt at ‘No Kings’ rally
Co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project attended the Washington, D.C., protest
WASHINGTON — Former Republican attorney George Conway appeared to embrace Antifa during Saturday’s “No Kings” rally in the nation’s capital.
Conway, a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, attended the Washington, D.C. protest wearing a shirt reading, “I am Antifa.” The rally was one of numerous No Kings protests nationwide focused against the Trump administration and its policies.
The opposition of Conway, a longtime critic of the president, dates back to when his then-wife, Kellyanne Conway, served as a senior counselor to Trump during his first term in office. In 2025, Conway began crying while decrying what he described as the president’s threats against “democracy” and the “rule of law” on The Bulwark podcast.
Conway could not be reached for comment but shared an image of him taken by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) at Saturday’s rally on the leftwing social media site, Bluesky.
While No Kings emphasizes a “commitment to nonviolent action” on its website, radical leftists have used anonymous blogs to encourage illegal activity at the event.
Leading up to the rally, CrimethInc, an international anarchist group, encouraged supporters to engage in “anti-authoritarian” uprisings similar to the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots. The group specifically recommended “direct action planning,” which CrimethInc defines as mobilizing people to cause a public disruption, even at the risk of arrest.
Signs reading “8647,” commonly interpreted as meaning “kill” or “murder,” according to Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, were also spotted at the Washington anti-Trump rally. A protester was also observed by the DCNF carrying a poster depicting what appeared to be a guillotine.
The Trump administration in previous weeks has moved aggressively to crack down on Antifa. The president designated the group as a domestic terrorist organization in September, following the politically motivated murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. In addition, the FBI continues to investigate leftist groups for potential ties to the assassination.
In his executive order designating Antifa as a terror group, Trump directed his administration to “utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations.” On Thursday, the Department of Justice brought its first federal terrorism case against two people connected to the left-wing ideology who allegedly coordinated a July attack on a Texas federal immigration detention facility.
