Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari on Sunday renewed her call for President Donald Trump’s removal from office under the 25th Amendment, citing what she described as the president’s latest destabilizing threat to annihilate the Islamic Republic of Iran. The post, which Ansari published to X at 5:01 p.m. on June 28, 2026, came one day after Trump issued a stark warning on Truth Social suggesting that Iran could cease to exist if it continued to violate what he described as a cease-fire agreement — a statement that drew immediate and sharp condemnation from the Arizona lawmaker, who has become one of Congress’s most vocal critics of the administration’s conduct of the war.
Trump’s Warning on Truth Social
On the evening of June 27, 2026, President Trump posted the following message to Truth Social: “United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! It is very possible that they will never learn! There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist! President DJT.”
The statement, issued at 6:13 p.m., was in reference to ongoing U.S. military operations against Iran and echoed a pattern of escalatory rhetoric the president has employed throughout the conflict. It drew comparisons to prior Truth Social posts in which Trump had threatened to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure, including power plants and bridges — language that legal experts have characterized as constituting threats of war crimes under both U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions.
Ansari Responds: “Dangerous, Unhinged”
Ansari took to X the following afternoon with a sweeping condemnation of Trump’s conduct and a renewed call for his removal. Her post in full read: “Donald Trump has once again threatened the annihilation of Iran. This is dangerous, unhinged, and exactly why I’ve called for the 25th Amendment. Thousands of innocent people are dead, the region is in chaos, and our economy is devastated. This war must end now.”
The statement crystallizes a position Ansari has held consistently since the conflict began — that Trump’s handling of the war represents not merely a policy failure, but a constitutional crisis requiring emergency action. The 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967, includes a provision under Section 4 that would allow the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare a sitting president unable to discharge the duties of the office. That provision has never been successfully invoked against a sitting president.
A Pattern of 25th Amendment Calls
Sunday’s post was far from the first time Ansari has invoked the constitutional mechanism. Ansari, the Iranian American president of House Democrats’ freshman class, was among the first members of Congress to call for the 25th Amendment following Trump’s Easter Sunday threat of “Hell” for Iran. In a post in early April, Ansari wrote, “The 25th Amendment exists for a reason. The President of the United States is a deranged lunatic, and a national security threat to our country and the rest of the world.”
Ansari suggested that Trump’s posts indicated he was suffering from a mental impairment, and referred to him as a “security threat to our country and the rest of the world.” Those calls came as part of a broader Democratic wave: over two dozen Democratic lawmakers, including Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, issued statements supporting any avenue to remove Trump from office, with Markey writing, “We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization.”
Ansari Announces Impeachment Articles Against Hegseth
Ansari’s condemnation of Trump’s war conduct has extended beyond the president himself. In a formal statement released through her official congressional office, Ansari announced her intent to introduce Articles of Impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, stating: “Donald Trump’s deranged statements — including one on Easter Sunday — are further entrenching our country and our world in another devastating, never-ending war. He’s threatening war crimes that violate U.S. law and the Geneva Convention, on top of illegal actions and atrocities already committed at his direction — including violence that has destroyed schools, hospitals, and critical civilian infrastructure. Republicans must join us in calling on the president to end this suicidal war before it is too late. So much is at stake, and those who continue to follow him blindly will have blood on their hands as well.”
Ansari cited Hegseth’s repeated violations of his oath of office and duty to the Constitution, saying, “Hegseth’s reckless endangerment of U.S. servicemembers and repeated war crimes … are grounds for impeachment and removal from office.”
Formal Articles of Impeachment Filed Against Hegseth
On April 15, 2026, Ansari formally filed six Articles of Impeachment against Hegseth, stating: “Pete Hegseth broke his oath to the Constitution, put U.S. troops at grave risk through the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, engaged in abuse of office and conduct beneath the dignity of his office, and carried out unlawful military actions despite his obligation to refuse — including strikes on civilians and a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. Hegseth’s conduct meets the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors and warrants immediate removal by Congress.” The articles were cosponsored by more than a dozen House Democrats.
The articles of impeachment included two primary counts: unauthorized war against Iran and reckless endangerment of U.S. servicemembers, and violations of the law of armed conflict and targeting of civilians. Ansari also alleged that Hegseth had inappropriately politicized America’s military and broken established rules of engagement by approving illegal strikes on noncombatant vessels in the Caribbean, and she cited the March 2025 Signalgate scandal, claiming Hegseth demonstrated gross negligence in his handling of classified military information.
Ansari’s Personal Stake in the Conflict
Throughout the conflict, Ansari has repeatedly invoked her background as a frame for her opposition. As the daughter of Iranian immigrants and as a member of Congress who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, Ansari has stated that the stakes for U.S. servicemembers, the Iranian people, innocent civilians, and global stability are too high to ignore. She is widely noted as the only Democratic Iranian American currently serving in Congress, a distinction that has lent particular weight to her criticism of a war that has taken thousands of lives in a country her family once called home.
Ansari has said that Trump is escalating what she described as a “devastating, illegal war,” and has pointed to administration rhetoric that she believes crossed every line. Her demand for accountability has extended to formal oversight actions, including a letter sent to Hegseth demanding clarity on U.S. military actions between February 28 and April 7, 2026, which, according to independent monitoring by Human Rights Activists in Iran, resulted in significant harm to civilian life and damage to civilian infrastructure.
The Constitutional Hurdles
Despite the mounting calls from Ansari and fellow Democrats, the path to removing Trump through the 25th Amendment remains extraordinarily steep. Vice President J.D. Vance and a majority of Trump’s Cabinet are highly unlikely to declare him unable to discharge the powers and duties of the presidency. Similarly, the impeachment push against Hegseth faces long odds in a Republican-controlled Congress where a two-thirds majority in the Senate would be required for conviction.
Notably, Trump himself appeared to anticipate such efforts months before Ansari’s latest post. In March, Trump acknowledged that his war strategy might prompt attempts to invoke the 25th Amendment, saying, “I can’t say what we’re going to do because if I did, I wouldn’t be sitting here for long. They’d probably — what is it called? The 25th Amendment? They’d institute the 25th Amendment.”
“This War Must End Now”
As of Sunday, June 28, 2026, Ansari’s call for Trump’s removal represents the latest escalation in a months-long pattern of confrontation between the Arizona Democrat and the White House. From early social media posts branding Trump a “deranged lunatic” to the formal filing of six articles of impeachment against his Defense Secretary, Ansari has pursued every available legislative and rhetorical avenue to force a reckoning over the administration’s Iran policy. Her June 28 post offered no new mechanism — only a sharpened urgency: thousands dead, a region in chaos, an economy under strain, and a president she believes is constitutionally unfit to remain in power.
Whether that case gains traction on Capitol Hill remains to be seen. What is clear is that Ansari has no intention of going quiet.