Something extraordinary is happening in American politics right now. A Democratic congressman and Marjorie Taylor Greene are on the same side. Ro Khanna and Alex Jones are saying the same thing. Tucker Carlson and progressive activists are reaching the same conclusion.
Donald Trump has finally managed to unite the left and the right — in calling for his removal from office.
It started Tuesday morning when Trump posted on Truth Social that he would wipe out "a whole civilization" if Iran didn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. Eastern time. "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," Trump wrote. "I don't want that to happen, but it probably will."
Yes, your eyes did not deceive you as much as you may wish they had. The President of the United States threatened to destroy an entire civilization on Truth Social — before breakfast.
Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna of California didn't hold back in the slightest in response: "If the United States Congress has any life left in it, every member of Congress and senator must be calling for Trump's removal today based on the 25th Amendment. He's threatening the entire destruction of a civilization. He is calling Iranians animals. He is showing a total disregard for the humanity of people in Iran, in Gaza, in Cuba. This is a moral crime. It is a war crime. We need to be demanding that Congress convene today, and we need to be invoking the 25th Amendment."
While it may not seem particularly unusual for a Democratic congressman to accuse Donald Trump of war crimes and genocide and call for the invocation of the 25th Amendment, it was the calls from Trump’s former MAGA allies that were unexpected.
"25TH AMENDMENT!!!" posted Marjorie Taylor Greene — the same Marjorie Taylor Greene who has spent years as one of Trump's most fervent defenders. "Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness."
Alex Jones — the InfoWars conspiracy theorist who has worshipped Trump for a decade — called it a "WAR CRIME ALERT" and said Trump "literally sounds like an unhinged super villain from a Marvel comic movie." He added: "The definition of genocide is destroying an entire civilization/people! THIS IS NOT WHAT WE VOTED FOR!!!"
Candace Owens declared: "The 25th Amendment needs to be invoked. He is a genocidal lunatic. Our Congress and military need to intervene. We are beyond madness."
Anthony Scaramucci — Trump's own former White House communications director — tagged Senate Majority Leader John Thune directly: "Are you serious right now? Are you not going to denounce this? Are you not going to seek the removal of this crazy person? This is your responsibility." He added: "Wake up: he is calling for A NUCLEAR STRIKE. Seek his removal immediately."
Bill Kristol, a Republican for 40 years before leaving the party to become an Independent during Detonation Donnie’s first term, put it simply: "Impeach Trump."
Let's be absolutely clear about what Donald Trump threatened. The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most strategically critical waterways on earth. Iran has been using control of it as leverage in negotiations to end the war that Trump started without congressional authorization. Trump's response to this leverage was to threaten to annihilate Iranian civilization entirely — not just its military, not just its government, not just its nuclear program. Its civilization. Its people.
That is the textbook definition of a genocide threat. It violates the Geneva Conventions. It violates international law. It violates the Constitution he swore to uphold. And it was posted on a social media platform before the morning news cycle.
Ro Khanna is right. When a president threatens to destroy a civilization because they won't open a shipping lane by his self-imposed 8 p.m. deadline, the 25th Amendment exists for exactly this moment. The question is whether Congress — the institution that has spent years enabling, excusing, and cowering before this man — has, as Khanna put it, any life left in it.
Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Trump has gone too far. Alex Jones thinks Trump has gone too far. Candace Owens thinks Trump has gone too far.
If you're to the right of Alex Jones on the question of whether we should destroy an entire civilization, it's time to ask some very serious questions about who is sitting in the Oval Office.
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