Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Trump ‘out of control,’ urges 25th Amendment removal

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, once among President Trump’s most vocal defenders, is now calling for his removal from office, aligning herself with dozens of Democrats who have pushed for Mr. Trump to be ousted through the impeachment process or the 25th Amendment, which empowers the vice president and Cabinet to declare a president unfit to serve.

Ms. Greene’s break with the president accelerated after Mr. Trump posted to Truth Social on Tuesday that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” setting an 8 p.m. deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil shipping corridor that has been blocked amid the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict.

Ms. Greene responded on X by calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, writing that the president’s rhetoric amounted to “evil and madness.”

In a subsequent CNN interview, she elaborated on her position, questioning the president’s mental fitness.

“It’s absolute madness,” Ms. Greene said. “How can any person that is mentally stable call for an entire civilization of people to be murdered, to be wiped out, to never come back again? That’s what the president called for, and that shows that there’s serious instability in his thinking that he would not only say that in a private room, perhaps with his advisers, but actually go to his megaphone, his Truth Social, and post that for the entire country and the entire world.”

She added that while she acknowledged the difficulty of actually invoking the amendment, the conversation must be had. “He’s out of control, and people within the administration need to step up, take responsibility, and rein this in,” Ms. Greene said.

Mr. Trump ultimately pulled back from his deadline, announcing a two-week ceasefire with Iran following negotiations. The White House credited the president’s aggressive rhetoric with bringing Tehran to the table, a claim Ms. Greene rejected. In her CNN interview, she said the ceasefire came through diplomatic negotiations, pointing to Vice President J.D. Vance’s involvement, and argued that threatening mass civilian casualties was not a legitimate negotiating strategy.

The former congresswoman, who resigned early amid a prolonged public feud with Mr. Trump, said her support for the president had always been rooted in policy, not personal loyalty, and that he had abandoned the platform he ran on.

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“What we campaigned on was no more foreign wars, and President Trump said he was going to be the peace president. Well, he’s gone from being the peace president to the war president,” Ms. Greene said.

Ms. Greene also cited Mr. Trump’s handling of the Epstein files as a factor in her break with him. “The president lost my support when he covered up the Epstein files,” she said, adding that Mr. Trump had labeled her a traitor after she publicly sided with accusers in the case.

Ms. Greene was joined in her removal calls by several House Democrats, including Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan, who previously introduced impeachment articles against Mr. Trump.

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