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Krishnamoorthi urges VP Vance to oust Trump
He appealed to Vice President and the U.S. Cabinet to invoke provisions under the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Wed, 08, Apr 2026
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi / REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has called for President Donald Trump’s involuntary removal by his Cabinet following the threats issued by President Trump against Iran, hours after a similar demand was made by Congressman Ro Khanna.
President Donald Trump, in successive posts on Truth Social, issued statements and threats that are viewed by many, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, as a 'call for genocide'. Trump warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran did not comply with a U.S. ultimatum to open the Strait of Hormuz and agree to the terms set by Trump.
Krishnamoorthi appealed to Vice President Vance and the U.S. Cabinet to invoke provisions under the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
Trump has since backed out of his threats of “death to a whole civilization” and announced that Iran has agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz and that dialogue between the two countries is underway, a decision credited by Congressman Khanna to the American people, especially “progressive activists and anti-war conservative voice like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
The 25th Amendment is often viewed as an option of last resort. Ratified in 1967, the provision allows for filling presidential or vice-presidential vacancies and handling presidential disability. While the first three sections of the 25th Amendment deal with voluntary transfer of power or transfer in case of vacancy, the fourth section provides for a safety valve controlled by the Cabinet.
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The section grants the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet special powers to declare the president incapacitated. If the president disputes this, which President Trump is expected to do in the unlikely scenario that his vice president and Cabinet move against him, Congress decides the issue, requiring a two-thirds vote in both houses to sustain the vice president’s power as acting president.
In a statement issued by Rep. Krishnamoorthi, he said, “In light of Donald Trump’s threat that ‘a whole civilization will die tonight,’ Vice President Vance and the Cabinet must immediately invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.”
Krishnamoorthi described the latest threats issued by President Trump as part of a “dangerous pattern of reckless escalation, erratic decision-making, and general conduct that raises grave questions about his fitness to discharge the duties of the presidency and safeguard the security and well-being of the American people.”
Krishnamoorthi noted that immediate action is required from Vice President Vance and the Cabinet because the “lives of millions and the prospect of wider war hang in the balance.”
The 25th Amendment must be invoked immediately to remove Donald Trump from office. His threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” raises grave questions about his fitness to discharge the duties of the presidency. Vice President Vance and the Cabinet must act now. pic.twitter.com/OnjH3mVZDi
— Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (@CongressmanRaja) April 7, 2026
The appeal by Krishnamoorthi came hours after Rep. Ro Khanna called on all Congress members and senators to echo his demand for the invocation of the 25th Amendment.
“We need to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump,” Khanna wrote on X. “Threatening war crimes is a blatant violation of our Constitution and the Geneva Conventions.”
Other than Khanna and Krishnamoorthi, calls for a hostile overtaking by the Cabinet were also sounded by other Democrats, including Rep. John Larson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
The demand was also echoed by many in the Republican camp. Former Trump aide Marjorie Taylor Greene described Trump’s threats as “evil and madness,” calling for his ouster.
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