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Omar Demands Trump’s Removal While Iran Watches: “Invoke the 25th Amendment. Impeach. Remove”

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Rep. Ilhan Omar
  • Omar called the sitting president an “unhinged lunatic” — while U.S. forces are in an active standoff with Iran.
  • She was removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for antisemitism — and still lectures on who’s fit to conduct foreign policy.
  • Omar opposed the Soleimani strike. Opposed maximum pressure. Opposed the Iran Deal withdrawal. The pattern is 100%.
  • A bipartisan House vote stripped her from the committee that oversees Iran policy.
  • Tehran noticed. They always do.

There’s a pattern here. It isn’t subtle.

Every time Trump exercises American power against Iran — maximum pressure sanctions, the Soleimani strike, the current confrontation — the same Democrats line up to undermine him. Not after the fact. Not in quiet dissent. Publicly, loudly, at the exact moment adversaries are watching most closely.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) delivered the latest installment Monday, calling the sitting president an “unhinged lunatic” and demanding his removal from office while the United States is in an active standoff with Tehran.

Think about the timing. Iran’s government is watching every signal coming out of Washington right now. Every crack in American resolve is an asset to them. And Omar handed them one — gift-wrapped.

This is the same Ilhan Omar who defended the Iran nuclear deal, opposed the Soleimani strike, and has consistently preferred the outcome that the Iranian regime prefers whenever Trump is the one making the call. It’s not a coincidence. It’s a record.

It’s also worth remembering how she lost her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Republicans moved to remove her in 2023 — and enough Democrats voted with them to make it happen — because of a documented pattern of antisemitic remarks. The committee that oversees American engagement with the Middle East. Gone.

She was removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for antisemitism — and she still thinks she gets to decide who’s fit to conduct American foreign policy.

Hamilton understood why this matters. In Federalist No. 75, he argued that foreign policy requires unified executive judgment precisely because divided counsel invites exploitation by adversaries. “The history of human conduct,” he wrote, does not justify trusting interests “of so delicate and momentous a kind” — America’s dealings with the rest of the world — to fractured, competing voices.

Hamilton was talking about structural design. But the principle applies directly to what Omar did Monday: a sitting congresswoman, during an active confrontation with a hostile regime, publicly calling for the removal of the commander-in-chief.

Tehran noticed. They always do.

Omar has every legal right to say what she said. The First Amendment is not in question here. What’s in question is the judgment of a legislator who looks at an escalating standoff with Iran and decides her most urgent priority is scoring points against a president she despises.

That’s not dissent. That’s not oversight. That’s choosing a side — and it isn’t ours.