Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the House Democratic Caucus Chair and No. 5 House Democrat, on Wednesday evening ripped the “sycophants” in President Donald Trump’s cabinet for lacking the “guts to deploy the 25th Amendment.”
Jeffries said Trump is “having a complete and total meltdown” in response to a story about Trump’s Wednesday press conference in which he said he was “the chosen one” to take on China.
Jeffries, who is no hero of the progressive left, likely opened himself up to more questions from the left with his tweet about why he is not out front demanding an impeachment inquiry if he believes Trump’s cabinet should “deploy the 25th Amendment.”
WOW.
This guy is having a complete and total meltdown.
The sycophants in the cabinet lack the guts to deploy the 25th Amendment.
Will his family have the good sense to engineer a clinical intervention?
We can only hope.https://t.co/Wrd5zDzNGH
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) August 22, 2019
Anti-Trump zealots on the left and right made the hashtag “#25thAmendmentNow” trend on Twitter on Wednesday after Trump’s impromptu exchange with reporters:
Quite understandably trending. #25thAmendmentNow pic.twitter.com/T4pnw2ik4c
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 21, 2019
BREAKING NEWS: #25thAmendmentnow trends on Twitter as Donald Trump proclaims himself 'the chosen one,' 'the king of Israel,' and the 'Second Coming' – then tells vets he wants to give himself the Medal of Honor after Denmark turns down offer.
— Dave Vescio (@DaveVescio) August 22, 2019
King of Israel? Chosen one?
Hillary literally warned us. She was right. About all of it. The deportation forces. The camps. The xenophobia and racism.
Fight like hell for your favorite candidate now!
But whoever wins the Dem primary?
Better than Trump.#25thAmendmentNow pic.twitter.com/bfUBZ5mWpw— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 21, 2019
Trump just looked up to the sky and said “I am the chosen one.” A reminder that he’s completely insane, and unfit for office in every way. #25thAmendmentNow pic.twitter.com/QFLfclBlZg
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 21, 2019
And now #25thAmendmentNow is at #5!
GREAT WORK, y'all!
Let's send the King of Israel to a nice, quiet place where he can be the king of wherever he wants to be in his own head. #wednesdaywisdom pic.twitter.com/vz6yDaMFHW
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 21, 2019
We learn in med school that if someone comes to the emergency room calling themselves the King of Israel and the second coming of God, that patient is either high on drugs or is having a psychotic break and needs to be promptly evaluated with a tox screen and psychiatric consult.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) August 21, 2019
I don’t understand why the media resists discussing Trump with mental health professionals.
When athletes or other public figures break something, the media consults orthopedists.
Now we have someone who obviously has a broken mind—and he controls nuclear weapons. https://t.co/WFfFMxo3m7
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 22, 2019
He is legally and diagnostically sane. But he suffers impairment from at least two diagnosable personality disorders, and needs a full workup for possible onset of dementia. He’s obviously unfit. He’d be drummed out of any other job.
Colloquially, though, we can say he’s nuts. https://t.co/qnZG5UCKo8
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 22, 2019
Today Trump retweeted:
1. "the Jewish People in Israel love him like he's the King of Israel"
2. "they love him like he is the second coming of God"
Today Trump also looked skyward & proclaimed,
"I am the chosen one!"How many warning signs do we need? #25thAmendmentNow
— Dr. Jack Brown (@DrGJackBrown) August 21, 2019
Donald Trump’s day so far:
– Says he’s the “King of Israel”
– Says he’s the “Chosen one”
– No really, he said this shit
– Attacks Denmark
– Attacks NATO
– Trump is the antichrist
– #25thAmendmentNow
– Impeachment is coming
– Trump is going to prison
– It’s still only 3pm— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) August 21, 2019
Anthony Scaramucci, who has vowed to defeat Trump in 2020 after having a falling out with the Trump administration, also recently called for the 25th Amendment option.
“I’m not hedging that, if I was a Cabinet member I would be going to the other Cabinet members and saying, ‘hey it’s sort of time for the 25th Amendment because he is very destructive and obviously mentally imbalanced and unstable.’ If you are asking my personal opinion, if I was on the Cabinet, I would say, ‘hey it’s time for the 25th Amendment, the guy has lost it obviously,'” he reportedly said. “But I’m not on the Cabinet.”
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