Dems Call for Trump to Be Removed Under the 25th Amendment

Donald Trump’s administration is facing another round of calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office following his remarks to an unprecedented assembly of the nation’s military leaders, Alex Woodward reported for The Independent.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to remove Trump. (Photo: Isac Nóbrega, Palácio do Planalto Flickr)

Trump’s Cabinet and then–Vice President Mike Pence faced similar demands in the aftermath of the January 6 attack, when a mob of the president’s supporters stormed Congress to derail certification of an election he lost.

And it’s not the first time Trump has faced calls to step down since returning to the White House in January. Liberal commentators and critics on social media routinely urge his Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

It remains extremely unlikely that Trump’s allies and a Republican-dominated Congress would vote to oust him.

The president enjoys the ironclad allegiance of his Cabinet and Vice President JD Vance, who would effectively have to agree with their political opponents that the president can no longer serve.

But prominent Democrats claim the president is unfit for office, that his cognitive health is in decline, and that his recent speech to military leaders all but endorsed the idea of active-duty troops fighting civilians in U.S. cities.

After Trump said cities like Chicago should be used as “training grounds for our military,” Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to remove him—marking the first time the governor has publicly demanded Trump’s ouster.

“It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia setting in, but he’s copying the tactics of [Russian President] Vladimir Putin,” Pritzker said Wednesday.

“Sending troops into cities, thinking that’s some sort of proving ground for war, or that there’s some sort of internal war going on in the United States, is just, frankly, insane—and I’m concerned for his health.”

“There is something genuinely wrong with this man, and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked,” he added.