Democrats demand US cabinet oust Trump over Iran amid Republican silence | Donald Trump
As Donald Trump makes blasphemous threats against Iran, Republicans remain conspicuously silent while Democrats raise alarm about his mental state and call for his impeachment.
Democrats step up their rebukes as the 79-year-old president delivers rambling, incoherent speeches, He hurls childish insults at US allies and brazenly threatens to commit war crimes. He used a social media post on Easter Sunday to warn Iran to “Open the damn Strait, you crazy bastards, or you will live in Hell.”
The president insisted that “an entire civilization will die tonight” if Tehran does not meet its deadline to agree to a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Tuesday afternoon, More than 20 Democratic members Congress had called on Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment to the constitution to remove a president deemed unfit for office.
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Ilhan Omar of Minnesota wrote that Trump is “a deranged lunatic” and asked: “When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to bristle and impeach him?”
Mark Pocan of Wisconsin added: “25th Amendment NOW! Trump is too unstable, dangerous and unstable to have the nuclear codes!”
They were joined by former Republican US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has criticized Trump. he wrote: “25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb fell on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and insanity.”
There was greene was forewarned That Trump is “going crazy.” And since Sunday, other Democrats have broken new ground by questioning the president’s mental health.
Democrat Yassamin Ansari, the only Iranian American in Congress, wrote on social media: “The President of the United States is a deranged lunatic and a national security threat to our country and the rest of the world.”
But the chances of Trump’s notoriously loyal cabinet turning against him to install J.D. Vance as president are slim to none. Even as Trump threatened to target civilian infrastructure in Iran in violation of international law, few Republicans raised their voices in opposition. Many people in the party support the war.
Kurt Bardellaa former Republican congressional aide turned Democrat, said: “The only mechanism that we know of that can be implemented immediately is the 25th amendment. The only thing that stands in the way of the complete destruction of a civilization is whether there are a dozen or 13 Republicans who have the backbone, the soul, the conscience, and the courage to do what they know is right.”
The division in Washington reflects Joe Biden’s presidency; Republicans and right-wing media spent years claiming that the octogenarian Biden was suffering from cognitive decline and were vindicated when a poor debate performance ended his 2024 re-election campaign.
Biden’s mental and physical health has been a thorny issue in Washington for years. Trump and other Republicans accused him of going senile and forced him to rely on automatic signatures to sign documents. The White House fueled speculation by limiting Biden’s public appearances and taking harsh action when the sensitive topic was discussed in the media.
The president’s shaky debate performance against Trump in June 2024 left Democrats and some in the media lamenting their failure to deal with the issue until it was too late. Trump’s current stance raises the question of what lessons have been learned.
Bardella, a political commentator and NewsNation network contributor, said: “Because of what happened to Joe Biden, this should actually increase our level of scrutiny of someone like Donald Trump. Frankly, anyone over the age of 80 who is in public office at this point should be scrutinized. Father Time is invincible, and Donald Trump is no exception to that.”
“If we later find out that this is someone suffering from dementia or some deteriorating mental disorder, and we allow him to wage a literal war against an entire civilization, no one should feel good about that. Your place in history will be looked upon with infamy because you knew better and did nothing.”
Trump also faces criticism from his right wing. Along with Greene, former Make America Great Again allies like Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones and Candace Owens have described her threats to Iran as a betrayal of the America First promise to end wars forever. Jones, a notorious conspiracy theorist he asked: “How do we fix your ass?”
But Republicans on Capitol Hill, some of whom have long been Iran hawks, appear resilient and ready to ignore Trump’s reckless rhetoric. Bill GalstonBill Clinton’s former policy advisor said: “I don’t think anyone is surprised by this, because Republicans’ attitude toward this president’s wrongdoings could be charitably described as indifferent.
“It’s no surprise that a party whose 98 percent tolerates everything from this president would continue their cowardly behavior because there are many Republican members of the House and Senate who are known to be competent, reasonable people who have bit their tongues for far too long.”
Trump doesn’t drink or smoke, but he loves fast food. His defenders insist that he was extremely energetic, often working through the night and giving speeches for an hour and a half without taking a sip of water. But last year he could not hide the evidence of bruising on his hands and swollen ankles.
His mental state is even more questionable. Trump himself repeatedly claims to have “passed” cognitive tests that no other president could have done. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed last week that she was “always the most read person in the room.” Critics find such statements laughable and accuse Republicans of hypocrisy.
Galston, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, commented: “It is certainly fair that a party that questioned the cognitive competence of the president of the other party should now be subjected to the same kind of questioning. If it turns out that behind the scenes senior members of the Trump administration were aware of any mental distortions or inadequacies in the president, history will not be kind to them.”
However, the Goldwater rule is a rule stating that psychiatrists should not give an opinion about the mental state of a person they have not examined. Galston added: “Making psychological judgments from a long distance, although occasionally accurate, is very difficult because these judgments are so complex.
“My memory goes back to 1964, when a legion of the nation’s top psychologists gathered and declared that Barry Goldwater was mentally disturbed, which he most certainly was not, because he was using offensive language on many foreign and domestic policy issues that were distasteful to a left-leaning psychology profession. So there is reason to be cautious..”
