Donald Trump is facing renewed calls for removal under the 25th Amendment after a series of inflammatory threats against Iran and increasingly erratic online posts in recent weeks prompted critics in Washington, the intelligence community and even on the American right to question whether the president is fit to serve.
Talk of using the 25th Amendment against Trump is not new. The constitutional mechanism, which allows a president to be declared 'unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,' was quietly floated by members of his Cabinet after the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol. It never progressed beyond rumour and private conversations. The latest wave of calls has been triggered by the crisis with Iran and by a particularly explicit Truth Social post on 5 April in which Trump threatened Iran's 'civilization' and demanded that Tehran 'Open the F-----' Strait' or 'you'll be living in H---.'
