Chuck Darwin

The former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan has added his name to growing calls for the president to be ousted on grounds that he is unfit for the job,
arguing that the US constitution’s 25th amendment addressing involuntary removal from office was
“written with Donald Trump in mind”.

Brennan, who served as head of the spy agency during Barack Obama’s presidency, told MS Now on Saturday that
Trump’s recent volatile remarks about destroying Iranian civilization
and the danger he posed to so many lives
merited his removal from the Oval Office.

“This person is clearly unhinged,”
he said.
“I think the 25th amendment was written with Donald Trump in mind.”

Brennan added that Trump was too much of a liability to be allowed to continue to be commander-in-chief, with immense firepower at his disposal, including the US nuclear arsenal.

#JohnBrennan #A25
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/12/ex-cia-director-oust-trump-25th-amendment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Ex-CIA director calls for ousting Trump: ‘25th amendment was written with him in mind’

John Brennan says president who made volatile remarks about destroying Iranian civilization ‘is clearly unhinged’

The Guardian
Apr 13 at 3:01amWeb
Show threadFrank Heijkamp2d ago
@cdarwin
Please make sure that JD Vance won't take over.
Show threadKevin Karhan2d ago
@cdarwin I never imagined to agree with #Brennan, but yeah, #25A the #OrangeTyrant by any means necessary…
Show threadNazo2d ago

@cdarwin Honestly, I don't think they had Trump in mind. I think they had a normal, reasonably confused president in mind. I think none of the framers or writers of anything before ever imagined someone this unhinged and screwed up being propped up bit a lot of very rich people with too much power and a lot of stupid people taught to hate.

I don't think they even imagined this level of corruption with an *entire political party* solely dedicated to loyalty to a dictator *no matter what.*

Show threadHalaana2d ago
@nazokiyoubinbou The precedents that come to mind are Woodrow Wilson having a stroke while in office and FDR dying, but the main would have been the assassination of JFK as it was possible for him to have survived in an incapacitated state.
Another amendment was written with people like Trump in mind. The 2nd.
Show threadbk2d ago
@cdarwin
Can you believe this person is in charge of our country?
Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell2d ago

@cdarwin

Yeah, if we had something approaching a blurry Polaroid of a normal functioning legislative body. The entire cabinet is filled with sycophants and people who need him for their agenda like Miller (where is he by the way?) while Congress was handpicked by billionaires and bank rules by them to be completely useless.

Even if we imagine the cabinet would vote him out we still have to deal with Congress. They have to remove him before Vance gets the spot.

It’s still the right call

Show threadCaliCarol2d ago
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @cdarwin
In my opinion Hegseth is the right target for impeachment and removal at this point in time and I consider the Democrats 25th Amendment talk to be gaslighting. It's more difficult than impeachment and removal. So why are they talking about it? They're trying to throw their enraged supporters off the scent. They want to pretend they're taking action. As per usual.
#uspol #ImpeachHegseth
Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell2d ago

@jawarajabbi @cdarwin

Based on their track record, not much that can refute what you’re saying.

I think somebody has demanded Hegseth goes, but it’s probably not the establishment leadership. There’s too much shit going on for me to remember exactly but I know somebody mumbled about it.

Edit : yes

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/935/text

Show threadCaliCarol2d ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @cdarwin

Well my long-suffering (from my scathing messages) Democratic representatives will keep hearing from me about it. It's completely doable, politically. I mean for a political party with stones. Which is not, alas, the modern Democratic party. Looking forward to the New Democrats taking things forward after the mid-terms.

Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell2d ago

@jawarajabbi @cdarwin

The only time the Democratic establishment demonstrates their capacity for hardball is when it comes to fresh blood that dares a challenge, their little patronage fiefdoms

As soon as that’s threatened, they play the hardest of hardball

Show threadxs4me22d ago

@cdarwin

And he is absolutely correct…

Show threadRay McCarthy2d ago

@cdarwin
They'd need to remove Vance, Hegeth etc first.

They are worse.