Despite being in office for only two weeks, warrant early calls for impeachment, and with good reason. The renewed interest in giving Trump the boot — which has arisen on social media and in the form of a popular petition from the nonprofit Free Speech for People — comes amid a flurry of controversies that have already dogged the newly elected president.
For starters, Trump first laid the grounds for a potential impeachment with his mass g of executive orders on his first day in office, which targeted trans people, immigrants, and diversity policies, as well as withdrawal from the World Health Organization.
On the international front, Trump caused diplomatic mayhem not just through the imposition of harsh tariffs on Canada, but in his outlining of plans to annex Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada, whose prime minister he mockingly referred to as a governor. Trump’s international embarrassment continued with the bizarre plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico, but he’s caused trouble on home soil, too.
He pardoned the violent participants in the January 6 riots, some of whom went on blaming it on the previous istration and on DEI policies.
That, in light of having enacted noted Trump critic Billy Baldwin added, with a third comparing the president’s first two weeks to a “bad episode of The Apprentice, [but] he is the first one who should be fired.”
Again recalling his response to the Potomac air crash, another said Trump’s “handling of the situation should be treated as one of the biggest scandals in presidential history.” This sentiment was echoed with calls to “impeach and remove Trump — he’s failed catastrophically,” while others quipped that the “only president worse than the 45th is the 47th,” about Trump’s first term beginning in 2016. While the impeachment discourse is raging online, it’s also being echoed in more concrete ways, too.
On inauguration day, the nonprofit organization Free Speech for People established a bipartisan petition to drum up for Trump’s removal from office. Titled links to Project 2025 as key impeachable offenses, but there’ll likely be plenty more where that came from as Trump’s second term continues to crash and burn.
All of that without even mentioning Trump’s mass deportations, his plans to house migrants in Guantanamo Bay, and what is perhaps the biggest impeachable offense of all; being pals with Elon Musk. It is perhaps worth pointing out that Trump has been impeached twice before, with little to no actual consequences for him. Maybe their energies would be better directed elsewhere.
Published: Feb 3, 2025 05:27 am