The GOP should act on ousting Donald Trump from his position as president, according to a political analyst who believes that now is the right time for dramatic action.
The president's recent comments on Greenland and actions in Venezuela have given rise to commentators suggesting the Republican Party invoke the 25th Amendment. A letter Trump wrote to the Prime Minister of Norway prompted comment from The Daily Beast's Janna Brancolini, who says the GOP should push for more than impeaching the president.
The letter raged again about Trump's perceived snub after he didn't receive the Nobel Peace Prize — and suggested that peace is no longer his priority.
Brancolini wrote, "Even by Trump’s standards, this letter is so dangerous and so delusional that there is no longer any question that the president is mentally 'unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,' as laid out in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution."
"It is clearly not rational to start a war because your feelings got hurt by not winning a prize that you were not even eligible for. It is certainly not rational to sabotage the country’s national security — emboldening Russia and China — over those hurt feelings."
There is a clearer reason to push for more than impeachment too, according to Brancolini. She wrote, "The president is, simply put, not a well man. He subsists on a diet of fast food and aspirin, stays up until the wee hours of the night doom-scrolling on social media, and spent Christmas day rage-posting on his Truth Social platform.
"This is why impeachment is not enough. Impeachment is a political process that punishes officials for 'treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.'
"At this point it’s become almost cliché to point out how many of the president’s actions would be impeachable offenses if anyone else were president, or if congressional Republicans weren’t such cowards.
"The president’s threats to invade an ally and destroy America’s national security standing over a peace prize snub are also no doubt grounds for impeachment, but they’re more than that. They’re evidence of a man who is simply not able to lead this country."