These people didn’t come to social media to praise Trump. Instead, their mission was to garner support for using the 25th Amendment against Trump.
The constitutional amendment outlines the procedures executive branch officials can use to certify a president “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” and put the vice president in charge.
Although many politicians called for Trump’s removal in a general sense and others suggested he be impeached for a third time, here are the politicians who have specifically mentioned invoking the 25th Amendment.
Not surprisingly, the vast majority of politicians were Democratic.
Although conservative pundits like Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson have also called for the 25th Amendment, the Republican politicians calling for Trump’s removal are all out of office.
But while Rhode Island’s Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse was sympathetic to removing Trump, he added that, “unfortunately, invoking the 25th is not realistic right now, given his oddball cabinet of sycophants and eccentrics, and Republican ‘spines of foam.’
“We’re going to have to buckle down and win this the old-fashioned way,” he added.
