MS NOW host Jen Psaki has handed her fellow Democrats a reality check over their dreams of seeing President Donald Trump removed from power via the 25th Amendment, saying it is simply not going to happen.
Psaki, who was Joe Biden’s first White House press secretary before joining the network, was appearing on Stephen A Smith’s Straight Shooter show on SiriusXM when she was asked about the prospect of the constitutional mechanism being deployed to remove Trump from the Oval Office on mental health grounds.
“I have no issue with people saying they’re for invoking the 25th Amendment, but it’s not going to happen,” Psaki told Smith. “So, it’s like, why are we spending so much time, you know?”
New York Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman became the latest to issue that call this weekend in response to a Wall Street Journal report alleging that the president was excluded from a military briefing about the daring rescue mission to retrieve two U.S. airmen downed in Iran because of his erratic temperament.
The newspaper described Trump engaging in an hours-long tantrum, raging that a failed rescue could mean the end of his presidency, prompting Goldman to say on X (Twitter): “The commander-in-chief was excluded from commanding a military operation because he was acting so crazy.
“Think about that. Trump is not well. We need the 25th Amendment before something really bad happens on U.S. soil.”
Fifty House Democrats introduced legislation last week that would allow Congress to study the president’s fitness for office and move to remove him using the amendment, amid rising concern about his violent rhetoric towards Tehran and bizarre digs at Pope Leo XIV.
If passed, the bill would create a commission to assess whether the emergency amendment should be invoked, an outcome that in reality stands little chance of ever being realized, given that it would require the approval of the vice president and a majority of the cabinet before it could be enacted.
Prior to that, former CIA director John Brennan had told Ali Veshi on Psaki’s own network that the clause was explicitly written with the likes of the current president “in mind.”
The same calls have also come from rebels on the right like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones, all of whom have openly demanded Trump’s ousting.
“How do we 25th Amendment his ass?” Jones asked on his InfoWars show recently, responding, like others, to Trump’s increasingly wild rhetoric over Tehran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which has caused global oil prices to spike.
Elsewhere in her interview with Smith, Psaki said that many Democrats feel “their entire identity is being questioned and challenged” by the president and his policies, leading to what the man himself has long diagnosed as “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
The pundit said that, for many, a way for them to be able to “consider themselves progressive” in these trying times is by “scream[ing] at the top of [their] lungs about everything that comes out of the Trump administration.”
She acknowledged that while she herself is “outraged by a lot of it… I don’t think screaming about every single thing is the most constructive thing” as it ultimately amounts to little more than background noise that can be ignored, unlike more targeted criticisms.
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