Finally, Trump’s Ex-Allies Call for 25th Amendment: “He’s Gone Insane”

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s deranged threat to obliterate Iranian civilization entirely has prompted powerful pushback from some former MAGA allies. Some are suggesting it’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him, including Alex Jones, Anthony Scaramucci, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who tweeted that “he has gone insane.” Tucker Carlson called on military officials not to follow illegal orders to attack civilian infrastructure. After we recorded, Trump temporarily postponed the assault. But the conversation about his unfitness has been reopened. We talked to Jennifer Rubin, editor-in-chief of The Contrarian and author of a good piece on Trump’s vow of genocide. We discuss the gravity of Trump’s war-crime threats, the cowardice of Republicans who keep enabling this madman, and how we can keep the removal talk alive. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:32.5	Donald Trump's threat to obliterate Iranian civilization entirely has prompted some surprisingly powerful pushback from his own former allies on the MAGA movement.
0:38.8	Some have even suggested it's time to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. We're recording this before the
0:44.6	Tuesday night deadline that Trump imposed for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face total
0:50.4	civilizational erasure. But whatever happens on that front, the conversation about Trump's
0:56.4	undeniable unfitness to serve as president has now been opened in a fresh way. The media is now covering
1:03.4	this question. How do we keep it going? We're talking about this with Jennifer Rubin, editor-in-chief
1:10.0	of the contrarium, who has a good new
1:12.2	piece laying out that Trump is a madman who cannot remain in office.
1:16.4	Jen, good to see you.
1:18.0	It's lovely to be here.
1:20.0	So just to reiterate, listeners will be hearing this after we find out whether Trump decided
1:25.0	to wipe out a country of 93 million people. The Trump tweet that
1:29.5	threatened this, as you all know, read as follows, quote, a whole civilization will die tonight,
1:36.1	never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. Close quote.
1:43.1	Jen, maybe by Wednesday morning Iran will have made a deal with Trump involving his
1:47.7	demand to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
1:49.6	Maybe the war will escalate.
1:51.1	But either way, Trump's conduct in this war, along with so much else, has revealed him to be
1:56.4	absolutely unfit to be president.
1:59.0	It sure took people long enough to figure this out,
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