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

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Source: The Guardian

Sun 12 Apr 2026 10.26 EDT
Last modified on Sun 12 Apr 2026 16.20 EDT


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.

The ex-CIA director’s comments cast him at the forefront of a mounting debate over Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran and his increasingly violent threats to inflict mass destruction on that country. On 7 April, the president warned that Iran’s “whole civilisation will die tonight” if the Iranian regime failed to meet his ultimatum – a threat Brennan said hinted at the deployment of nuclear capabilities.

As Trump has ramped up his aggressive and expletive-filled rhetoric, an increasing number of Democrats have responded by calling for the 25th amendment to be invoked. The measure, baked into the US constitution in 1967, allows for the vice-president and a majority of the cabinet to remove the president on the basis that he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/12/ex-cia-director-oust-trump-25th-amendment

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1. This!

“Ex-CIA director calls for ousting Trump: '25th amendment was written with him in mind'.”

Source: The Guardian

Sun 12 Apr 2026 10.26 EDT
Last modified on Sun 12 Apr 2026 16.20 EDT


“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’.”

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2. The challenge is voice: tone and volume level...

..when elites yell fire as if they are whispering in a library, it is no wonder noone can discern the urgency of the situation.

[Bayard]

3. Mr. Brennan is a wise man

Pres. Obama selected him back when expertise for an office actually mattered. Its why trump hates him, and pulled his security clearance out of spite.

I would like to hear what he thinks of Tulsi Gabbard.

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4. Good luck with that.

Don't get me wrong, I'd absolutely love that to happen, but republicans will seldom, if ever, admit they were wrong about anything.

Getting them to invoke the 25th amendment will be next to impossible. I have a better chance of waking up 25 years old tomorrow morning instead of my actual 77 years. It just ain't gonna happen.