Republicans silent as Democrats call on US cabinet to oust Trump over Iran [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Tue 7 Apr 2026 14.17 EDT
Last modified on Tue 7 Apr 2026 14.48 EDT


As Donald Trump unleashes curse-filled threats against Iran, Democrats are raising alarm over his mental stability and calling for his removal from office – while Republicans remain conspicuously silent. Democrats are escalating their rebukes as the 79-year-old president delivers rambling, incoherent speeches, hurls puerile insults at US allies and brazenly threatens to commit war crimes. He used an Easter Sunday social media post to warn Iran to “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell”.

The president followed up by insisting that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran does not meet his latest deadline to agree to a deal that includes reopening the strait of Hormuz. By Tuesday afternoon, more than 20 Democratic members of Congress had called for Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment to the constitution to remove a president who is deemed unfit for office.

Rashida Tlaib of Michigan wrote on the X social media platform: “After bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide. It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office.”. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota wrote that Trump is an “unhinged lunatic” and demanded: “When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?”

Mark Pocan of Wisconsin added: “25th Amendment RIGHT NOW! Trump is too unhinged, dangerous, and deranged to have the nuclear codes!”. They were joined by Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former Republican US representative turned Trump critic. She wrote: “25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.”

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