{"id":380146,"date":"2026-04-07T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/380146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:29:13","slug":"republicans-silent-as-democrats-call-on-us-cabinet-to-oust-trump-over-iran-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/380146\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans silent as Democrats call on US cabinet to oust Trump over Iran | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Donald Trump<\/a> unleashes curse-filled threats against Iran, Democrats are raising alarm over his mental stability and calling for his removal from office \u2013 while Republicans remain conspicuously silent.<\/p>\n

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 <\/a>to warn Iran to \u201cOpen the Fuckin\u2019 Strait, you crazy bastards, or you\u2019ll be living in Hell\u201d.<\/p>\n

The president followed up by insisting that a \u201cwhole civilization will die tonight\u201d if Tehran does not meet his latest deadline to agree to a deal that includes reopening the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

By Tuesday afternoon, more than 20 Democratic members<\/a> of Congress had called for Trump\u2019s cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment to the constitution to remove a president who is deemed unfit for office.<\/p>\n

Rashida Tlaib of Michigan wrote<\/a> on the X social media platform: \u201cAfter bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide. It\u2019s time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ilhan Omar of Minnesota wrote that Trump is an \u201cunhinged lunatic\u201d and demanded: \u201cWhen will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Pocan of Wisconsin added<\/a>: \u201c25th Amendment RIGHT NOW! Trump is too unhinged, dangerous, and deranged to have the nuclear codes!\u201d<\/p>\n

They were joined by Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former Republican US representative turned Trump critic. She wrote<\/a>: \u201c25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greene had previously warned<\/a> that Trump has \u201cgone insane\u201d. And since Sunday, other Democrats have broken new ground by questioning the president\u2019s mental health.<\/p>\n

Yassamin Ansari, the only Iranian American Democrat in Congress, wrote on social media: \u201cThe President of the United States is a deranged lunatic, and a national security threat to our country and the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ansari told the Guardian on Tuesday: \u201cI am devastated and appalled by the lack of action from Trump\u2019s cabinet, from Republicans in Congress who are standing idly by as Donald Trump<\/a> is threatening genocide, war crimes, and essentially speaking as though he intends to use a nuclear weapon in Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a grave moment not just for the United States but in world history and we will be judged on what we did in this moment. I am urging Republicans<\/a> to put party affiliation and blind loyalty to Donald Trump aside and take action immediately to restrain him.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the chances of Trump\u2019s notoriously loyal cabinet turning against him to install JD Vance as president are close to zero. Even as Trump threatens to target civilian infrastructure in Iran in breach of international law, few Republicans have raised any voice of dissent. Many in the party support the war.<\/p>\n

Kurt Bardella<\/a>, a former Republican congressional aide turned Democrat, said: \u201cThe one mechanism that we know could be executed immediately is the 25th amendment. All that\u2019s standing in the way of the complete annihilation of a civilisation or not is if there are a dozen or 13 Republicans who have a spine, a soul, a conscience and the fortitude to do what they know is right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The divide in Washington echoes Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, when Republicans and rightwing media spent years contending that the octogenarian Biden was in cognitive decline<\/a> and claimed vindication when a feeble debate performance ended his 2024 re-election campaign<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s mental and physical health was a thorny subject for years in Washington. Trump and other Republicans mocked him as senile and forced to depend on an autopen to sign documents. The White House only fuelled speculation by limiting Biden\u2019s public appearances and clamping down hard when media reports tackled the sensitive subject.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s doddering debate performance against Trump in June 2024 left Democrats<\/a> \u2013 and some sections of the media \u2013 ruing their failure to grapple with the issue until it was too late. Trump\u2019s current conduct raises the question of what lessons have been learned.<\/p>\n

Bardella, a political commentator and contributor on the NewsNation network, said: \u201cIf anything, because of what happened with Joe Biden, that should actually increase the level of scrutiny that we have on someone like Donald Trump. Frankly, anyone over 80 that\u2019s in public office at this point, you should be scrutinised. Father Time is undefeated and Donald Trump is no exception to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it turns out that we find out later on that this was someone who was suffering from dementia or some mental condition that has created deterioration and we\u2019re allowing him to wage a literal war on an entire civilisation, no one should feel good about that. Your place in history will be looked upon with infamy because you knew better and you did nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump is also facing criticism from his right flank. Along with Greene, former Make America Great Again allies such as Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones and Candace Owens have described his threats to Iran as a betrayal of his America First promise to end forever wars. Jones, a notorious conspiracy theorist, asked<\/a>: \u201cHow do we 25th amendment his ass?\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet Republicans on Capitol Hill, some of whom are longtime Iran hawks, seem impervious and are willing to overlook Trump\u2019s reckless rhetoric. Bill Galston<\/a>, a former policy adviser to Bill Clinton, said: \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody is surprised by that because Republicans\u2019 attitude towards this president\u2019s misdoings can charitably be described as supine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is utterly unsurprising that a party, 98% of which has tolerated anything and everything from this president, would continue their cowardly behaviour because there are many Republican members of the House and Senate who are known to be competent and reasonable people who have simply bit their tongues for far too long.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump does not drink or smoke but does love fast food. His defenders insist that he is remarkably energetic, often working through the night and delivering speeches of an hour and a half without even taking a sip of water. However, over the past year he has been unable to hide evidence of hand bruising and swollen ankles.<\/p>\n

His mental state is even more contentious. Trump himself repeatedly claims to have \u201caced\u201d cognitive tests that no other president could. His press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, asserted last week that he is \u201calways the most well-read person in the room\u201d. Critics find such statements laughable and accuse Republicans of hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

Galston, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution thinktank in Washington, commented: \u201cIt\u2019s certainly fair for a party that questioned the cognitive competence of the other party\u2019s president to be subject to the same kind of questioning now. If it turns out that, behind the scenes, senior members of the Trump administration are aware of any mental distortion or incapacity on the part of president, history won\u2019t deal with them kindly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Goldwater rule<\/a>, however, is a convention that psychiatrists should not give an opinion about the mental state of a person they have not examined. Galston added: \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to make psychological judgments at long distance, even though occasionally they may be correct, just because these judgments are very complicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy memory goes all the way back to 1964, when legions of the country\u2019s best psychologists got together to declare that Barry Goldwater was mentally disturbed, which he quite clearly was not, just because he was talking a kind of aggressive language on many foreign policy and domestic issues that a left-leaning psychology profession didn\u2019t like. So there\u2019s reason to be cautious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Donald Trump unleashes curse-filled threats against Iran, Democrats are raising alarm over his mental stability and calling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-380146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}