Posted on 07/02/2017 9:21:35 AM PDT by drewh
It’s safe to say President Donald Trump uses social media to provoke more than anything else, and a new post Sunday morning achieved just that. He tweeted a wrestling video in which he “beats up” CNN, which lead a former White House lawyer to call for his removal under the 25th Amendment.
Here’s the Tweeter-in-Chief’s post:
Follow Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump #FraudNewsCNN #FNN 8:21 AM - 2 Jul 2017 115,634 115,634 Retweets 174,897 174,897 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy And the response by Norm Eisen, former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republication, and White House Special Counsel under President Barack Obama.
Follow Norm Eisen ✔ @NormEisen This tweet is evidence of mental deterioration. The President needs a psych evaluation. I mean that seriously and literally. #25thAmendment https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/881503147168071680 … 8:44 AM - 2 Jul 2017 · Washington, DC 1,436 1,436 Retweets 2,831 2,831 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Trump’s video is edited footage stemming from his honest-to-God actual appearance at Wrestlemania 23 in 2007 (It’s a whole thing). Anyway, the president’s tweet is an obvious swipe at CNN, who recently retracted a story claiming the Senate Intelligence Committee was investigating one of his campaign advisers. This was part of their probe into alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
It’s not the first time critics called for Trump’s removal under the 25th Amendment. Last time this happened was all the way back in the distant past of just last Thursday. Mean-spirited tweets directed at Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski caused some social media users to argue he was unfit for office, constitutionally speaking.
Calls to invoke the 25th Amendment will face some challenges, however. The short answer is that it has never been done before, so implementation remains hypothetical, and our current political situation makes it very unlikely. The slightly longer answer: the process requires that the Vice President and cabinet members have to tell Congress that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” whatever that means. Then the VP becomes Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
In other words, both a Republican cabinet and Congress, which features a GOP majority, must agree that Trump no longer belongs in the position. On top of that, LawNewz.com columnist Robert Barnes has argued that the president’s inability to function is, legally speaking, a narrow question: eg. the president is in coma, or suffers from a mental illness so severe he can’t feed himself.
Regular people get to make egregious spelling errors because they usually know how to fix your plumbing or haul your furniture or do your taxes or something.
People who write for a living aren't privileged in that way. Stopped reading right there.
Still not tired of all this winning ...
2) Democrat party moves to impeach Trump
Looks like DEMOCRATS RETALIATING AGAINST THE TRUTH to me..
CNN has less than 1% support.
juxtapose that with the scene from that assassination play...and how the media handles it.
trump is only fighting back, defending himself.
no wonder he’s getting more popular
These idiots are hysterical.
Trump McMahon....funny...
I love how the left considers anyone certifiably insane who isn’t one of THEM.
And they do this as they preach tolerance and understanding.
What a supreme bunch of evil losers they are.
These are the people who believe fake news. You can't expect them to get the subtlety of a good jibe.
WILL SOMEONE TAKE AWAY HIS DADGUM TWEETER EQUIPMENT?!?! (paraphrasing Leahy)
My wife and I will donate and make calls on behalf of the opponent of any Congressional Republican that seriously contemplates approving removal.
Paul Joseph WatsonVerified account @PrisonPlanet 10m10 minutes ago
Trump is "inciting violence" with a wrestling meme, says same media that literally painted a crosshair target on Trump's head.
Nah, too technical. Stick with your first plan and wait for Russian investigations to yield impeachment
Don’t forget the Never-Trumpers on Fox. Krauthammer, Bernie Goldberg, Jonah Goldberg, Hayes, Juan Williams, just to mention a few, will all say it’s time for Trump to resign for the good of the country. The same goes for former Fox employee Beck, who’ll say Trump suffers from mental illness and impeachment papers should be drawn up. Crazy McCain and his girlfriend Linda Graham will say the same thing. Ryan and McConnell when questioned will say Trump needs to stop it and act “presidential”, in other words be a stiff, robot talking politician like they them.
Rush’s analogy of playing with cats with a laser pointer is so apt.
And if you point it up the wall and to the ceiling, they’ll do their darndest to follow.
Really IS funny.
Cats VS Laser Pointers (HD) [Epic Laughs] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLT3WXKTL8k
I knew that a call on the 25th was coming. The left will not rest until Trump is out of office, and they will probably succeed.
MSM keeps chasing the red laser dot like a stupid cat
NO they WON'T... America is now behind President Trump! LOOKIE at the responses to the TWITTER!
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