Calls to “Eliminate” Trump Getting More Unhinged and Dangerous

In recent months, Democrats and the left-wing media have been ramping up their calls for President Trump to be removed from office immediately. They are amplifying their dubious claims that the President is, in their words, unhinged, insane, demented, and so forth. And they insist he is getting worse, as if that is even possible based on their own hysterical descriptions. They call him an existential threat to the Republic and to every citizen. He has to go now. According to them, the nation cannot wait until 2028.

One wonders how these self-proclaimed saviors of democracy manage to sound so hysterical while lecturing the rest of us about threats to the Republic. It is almost as if they believe the Constitution comes with a secret escape clause labeled “if we really dislike the guy, just eliminate him right now.” This rhetoric has become so extreme, so unprecedented, and so dangerous that it crosses every boundary of normal political discourse. Never before in modern American history have elected officials and their media allies openly mused about the immediate removal of a sitting president in language that sounds less like policy debate and more like a call to arms.

The talk about impeachment as one means to remove him persists, even though the most jaded Democrat knows that is not going to happen with the current composition of Congress. They are calling on the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to declare that Trump is unwell and unfit to carry out the duties of the presidency. They surely know that the Twenty-Fifth Amendment option has even less chance than impeachment. Yet they persist with the fevered insistence that the country cannot survive two more years of this presidency.

The language incites public hysteria among the gullible — and potentially incites lone-wolf extremists armed with AK15s. President Trump has already suffered two serious assassination attempts by unhinged shooters who echoed the left’s language about wanting to “eliminate” Trump to save the Republic. One might think that after such violence rhetoric would moderate. One would be wrong.

In fact, “eliminate” is exactly the word used by New Jersey Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman. During a House Budget Committee hearing, Watson Coleman declared, “If we wanted to eliminate abuse and fraud, we would eliminate the President of the United States from the office right now, and the rest of the sycophants in his administration that are allowing him to do so many illegal things.” (Emphasis added). This is not a measured call for constitutional process. It is a demand for instant action that bypasses every safeguard the Founders put in place. Impeachment and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment would take months or years even if they had any realistic chance of success — which they do not. The call to eliminate “right now” leaves only one practical option on the table, and that option is not pretty. It is called assassination.

The examples keep piling up in a manner that would be comical if it were not so reckless. Former FBI Director James Comey, never one to miss a chance to insert himself into the drama, posted a photograph on social media of seashells arranged to spell out “8647.” He captioned it innocently enough as a “cool shell formation on my beach walk.” How quaint.

The number 86, of course, is well-known slang for “get rid of” or, in darker circles, to kill. Forty-seven refers to President Trump as the forty-seventh president. The message could not have been clearer had Comey rented a billboard. Yet he professed shock that anyone would interpret it as anything but a charming seaside coincidence. One can almost hear the chuckle from the beach as the former top cop played innocent.

The recent frenzy over President Trump’s strong statements regarding Iran has only accelerated the madness. After he warned that failure to meet certain deadlines could result in “a whole civilization will die tonight,” more than seventy Democrats in Congress rushed to demand his immediate removal. Representative Ilhan Omar labeled him an “unhinged lunatic” who must be removed from office. Representative Rashida Tlaib called him a “maniac” who should be ousted without delay. Representative Jamie Raskin introduced legislation to create a commission that would work with Vice President Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Representative John Larson filed articles of impeachment. Representative Mike Quigley insisted, “He must be stopped and impeached.” Representative Shri Thanedar sent a formal letter to the Cabinet urging immediate action under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. The chorus claims the nation cannot endure two more years of what they describe as erratic, dangerous, and mentally unfit leadership. The country, they wail, is on the brink.

How thoughtful of these paragons of virtue. They lecture endlessly about threats to democracy while openly plotting to nullify the will of more than seventy-four million voters who elected Trump in 2024. It is the height of irony, or perhaps the depth of hypocrisy, that the same voices who spent years screaming about January sixth as an existential assault on the Capitol now endorse elimination rhetoric that could inspire the next unhinged shooter. This is not robust debate. This is not passionate advocacy. This is extreme, unprecedented, and profoundly dangerous incitement dressed up as concocted concern for the Republic.

The left-wing media amplifies every syllable of this hysteria, turning dubious claims into headlines and painting Trump as a clear and present danger who must be neutralized before he destroys everything. One almost expects them to hand out pitchforks with the evening news. Yet when conservatives point out the obvious connection between this rhetoric and the two prior assassination attempts, the response is predictable — denial, deflection, and accusations that it is Trump who incites violence by existing.

The ugly truth is that when elected officials and former law enforcement leaders use words like “eliminate right now,” they are not merely venting frustration. They are normalizing the unthinkable. The rhetoric has become so extreme, so unprecedented, and so dangerous that it threatens the very foundation of the Republic they claim to protect.

The American people deserve better. They deserve leaders who respect the electoral process, even when the results disappoint them. They deserve discourse that stops short of elimination fantasies. Until the left reins in this unhinged rhetoric, the danger will only grow. And if another attempt on President Trump’s life occurs, the blood will not be on the hands of some lone gunman alone. It will stain every politician and pundit who turned “eliminate” into an acceptable political option. One can only hope that the adults in the room will eventually show up — before it is too late

So, there ‘tis.