There's a pattern among Democrats that’s become so predictable and reflexive that it barely warrants serious analysis anymore. Every time President Trump does something they don't like — and especially when it involves flexing American power — the same tired playbook comes out: “Invoke the 25th Amendment!” “Impeach!” “Trump is dangerous!”
At this point, I can’t help but tune it all out. These aren’t serious people, and their accusations are meaningless.
Here's the thing: when you spend years pretending a clearly diminished president from your own party was perfectly fine, you forfeit any standing to lecture the rest of us about fitness for office.
On Tuesday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," warning Iran ahead of his 8 p.m. ET deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran closed the Strait — a critical chokepoint for roughly 20% of the world's oil — after the U.S. and Israel began military operations against the country in February, and he wants it reopened again.
Democrats wasted no time launching into full hysteria mode. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) declared that "25th Amendment proceedings must begin immediately," and that if the Cabinet wouldn't act, the House should launch impeachment. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called Trump's post "completely unstable and perilous" and demanded the Senate remove him, stating: "The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization." Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) posted on social media: "25th Amendment RIGHT NOW!" Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) called Trump a "war criminal" and a "maniac." Even House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called on every Republican to "put patriotic duty over party and stop the madness,” whatever that is supposed to mean.
None of these people can be taken seriously.
"Democrats have been talking about removing President Trump since before he was even sworn into office,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement. “The Democrats in Congress are deranged, weak, and ineffective, which is why their approval ratings are at historic lows."
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That really is the long and the short of it. If Democrats really wanted to be taken seriously on the issue of presidential fitness, well, they had four years to do it when Biden was in the Oval Office. I’m sorry, but his party spent every one of those years looking the other way while Joe Biden visibly deteriorated in real time. The video evidence was dismissed as "cheap fakes." Anyone who questioned Biden's mental acuity was branded ageist.
And when Trump launched his 2024 campaign, Democrats tried to project Joe Biden’s decline onto Trump instead. It wasn't until Biden's disastrous debate performance that the party collectively dropped the act and finally admitted what everyone already knew. Even then, after essentially admitting he was cognitively impaired, they wouldn’t call for him to be removed from office.
That's not a party of principle. That's a party playing politics, even if it means creating a constitutional crisis like having a vegetable in the Oval Office, and having unelected staffers making decisions on his behalf. And it makes every one of these breathless "remove him now" declarations ring exactly as hollow as they deserve to.
We all know that the 25th Amendment has a high threshold to be invoked, and Democrats know it will never happen. This is all performative outrage. It’s all designed to transition to their planned impeachment, should they win the House majority in November.
