Ex–Trump Allies Join Dems to Demand Trump Removal via 25th Amendment

Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Alex Jones surprisingly joined the call.

As President Donald Trump terrifies everyone around the world into thinking human civilization may end at 8 p.m. Tuesday, a growing number of political figures are calling for his removal, including a handful of slightly less spineless Republicans.

Drop Site News’s Julian Andreone compiled a list of the members of Congress calling to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, which would deem Trump unfit for office and transfer power to Vice President JD Vance. If Trump does not agree to cede power himself, Vance and a majority of Trump’s Cabinet would have to independently decide to wrest control from him. Considering how subservient Trump’s Cabinet is, this will likely never happen. Regardless, the Democrats calling to invoke the Amendment are:

Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari

Colorado Representative Diana DeGette

California Representative Ro Khanna

California Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove

Delaware Representative Sarah McBride

Florida Representative Maxwell Frost

Illinois Representative Delia Ramirez

Maryland Representative Johnny Olszewski

Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley

Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton

Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey

Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar

Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib

Michigan Representative Shri Thanedar

New Mexico Representative Melanie Stansbury

Pennsylvania Representative Summer Lee

Texas Representative Julie Johnson

Wisconsin Representative Mark Pocan

The New Republic found a few more Democratic congress members not on Andreone’s list calling to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, who are:

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy

New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Washington Senator Patty Murray

The only congressionally affiliated Republican who has explicitly called for Trump’s ouster is Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from her duties in January. Prominent right-wing pundits Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Candace Owens have also suggested Trump is not fit for office.

Republicans Bend Over Backward to Defend Trump’s Sick Threat on Iran

Republicans in Congress don’t see a big problem with Trump’s threat to kill “a whole civilization.”

After Donald Trump escalated his threats against Iran Tuesday by warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Republicans in Congress still came to his defense. 

Despite the fact that many of Trump’s former allies, as well as Democrats, think that he could be alluding to nuclear war or genocide, Republicans like Representative Jodey Arrington are saying, “Thank God we have a commander in chief that is not full of empty rhetoric, because we’ve delayed this inevitability for 50 years.”

“We’d have another North Korea,” the Texas representative told Fox Business only minutes after Trump made his genocidal threat, “save and except for President Trump, who is a man with a bias for action, and a man who presented with the facts that we have imminent threats, today and for our children’s future, is going to act even if it’s against his personal political interests. Thank God for President Trump and for the courage and political will to do what he’s doing.” 

Rep. Jodey Arrington on Iran: "Thank God we have a commander in chief that is not full of empty rhetoric, because we've delayed this inevitability for 50 years ... President Trump is a man with a bias for action. Thank God for President Trump and the courage and political will to… pic.twitter.com/r81jyDUHr9— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 7, 2026

Rep. Jodey Arrington on Iran: "Thank God we have a commander in chief that is not full of empty rhetoric, because we've delayed this inevitability for 50 years ... President Trump is a man with a bias for action. Thank God for President Trump and the courage and political will to… pic.twitter.com/r81jyDUHr9

Representative Mike Lawler tried to claim on CNN that Trump wasn’t “really talking about ending a civilization.” 

“He is talking about the energy and civilian infrastructure, that’s what he’s talking about,” Lawler said to CNN’s John Berman, who emphasized that Trump’s message stated “never to be brought back again.”  

“He just means the bridges and the infrastructure?” Berman asked. 

Lawler paused and blinked for a few seconds, before trying to claim that “we’re talking about taking decisive action against Iran’s energy and civilian infrastructure. That is what the president is talking about. He’s not talking about obliterating innocent people.” 

BERMAN: The president is threatening a whole civilization will die tonight. You say he doesn't want to do it. Does being reluctant to end a civilization make it ok?LAWLER: I don't think we're talking about ending a civilization--BERMAN: So you don't believe the president's… pic.twitter.com/0Z93e9vBPk— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 7, 2026

BERMAN: The president is threatening a whole civilization will die tonight. You say he doesn't want to do it. Does being reluctant to end a civilization make it ok?LAWLER: I don't think we're talking about ending a civilization--BERMAN: So you don't believe the president's… pic.twitter.com/0Z93e9vBPk

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson have not commented, as of this writing, on Trump’s threat of apocalyptic violence, either to reporters or on their social media accounts. As Trump’s arbitrary 8 p.m. E.T. deadline approaches and a U.N. Security Council resolution to reopen the Strait of Hormuz was vetoed, is there any chance of a sensible solution? 

Republican Senator Breaks With Trump After Iran War Crimes Threat

Senator Ron Johnson isn’t a fan of President Trump’s threat to bomb Iran’s infrastructure.

At least one Republican senator is finally speaking out against President Trump’s genocidal threats against Iran. 

“I am hoping and praying that President Trump … [that] this really is bluster. I do not want to see us start blowing up civilian infrastructure. I do not want to see that,” conservative Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson said on an episode of the John Solomon Reports podcast released Monday. “We are not at war with the Iranian people. We are trying to liberate them.” 

Sen. Ron Johnson: "I am hoping and praying that President Trump is, that this really is bluster. I do not want to see us start blowing up civilian infrastructure. I do not want to see that. We are not at war with the Iranian people. We are trying to liberate them." pic.twitter.com/upykUa3jeH— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 7, 2026

Sen. Ron Johnson: "I am hoping and praying that President Trump is, that this really is bluster. I do not want to see us start blowing up civilian infrastructure. I do not want to see that. We are not at war with the Iranian people. We are trying to liberate them." pic.twitter.com/upykUa3jeH

While this statement is stronger than that of most congressional Republicans, Johnson’s dreams of liberation have been all but deferred. On Tuesday, Trump warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” 

While former MAGA acolytes like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alex Jones have criticized  Trump’s threats—even calling for his removal—Johnson is one of the few Republicans in Congress to voice a similar opinion. Other than him, Rand Paul has been the only Republican senator to try to rein in Trump’s war.

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