Why isn’t Trump being overthrown?

Trump still has enough support within government, unfortunatelly. They seem to think that threatening the world with tariffs, taking Canada and Greenland, threatening other NATO nations, starting wars and starting global economic drama and likely recession are in the US interest, somehow! And the reality is that the bullying techniques worked for them so far. Everybody was being appeasing and trying to navigate around Trump. But the "I command you to liberate the Strait of Hormuz" calls may have been the drop that filled the glass. I think Trump will get straight, in your face, aggressive responses to any idiocy from mow onwards. He cannot even make his mind up about why he started the war, who started it, what is the objective, whether it is finished or not, whether it is won but not won enough and whether he coordinated the attack on South Pars gas field with Israel or he did not know anything about it....
He is definitively changing the world! But not pulling it closer to US. He is pushing it away. Pushing Europe towards each other and towards Asia, particularly China and India. Being Putin the only obstacle that stands on a trans-eurasian (plus Canada) trade block and, possibly, overtime alliance. That would reshape the world!
China has large investments in Africa, so Africa will get pulled closer too.
US will not immediately recover from this, even if they get rid of Trump today. It will take a few decade. That is, if it stops here.
If he even looks on the direction of Greenland or Canada, then that will be it.

The polls don’t bear that out. His approval rating is in the toilet.

You have an extremely low bar as to how the Leader of the largest economy in the world should be conducting themselves @RingoJuice

Because over half of Americans like myself voted for Trump and actually like what he’s doing for the most part?

where are you getting your news from that most Americans support Trump?

423 days into Donald Trump's term

The president's net approval rating is -18,
down 0.2 points since last week.
39% approve, 56% disapprove, 5% not sure

source: The Economist.

He will be trampling all over the US constitution if he goes ahead with his long-stated intention to run for a further term as President.

but the economy is not doing ok. that is more lies by Trump and his minions.

I think Trump has lost a lot of support in America even with his fans after the release of the Epstein files and the fact that he was best friends with Epstein for at least ten years.

Some are even saying that he started this war now to distract people from the above.

I really LOVE your post.

The short answer is that Trump's Republican party has a majority in Congress, and he has them so cowed that they are too frightened to block them.

It's all the more astonishing considering his blatant corruption and ignorant incompetence.

Trump was elected democratically. Most Americans like him and support the way acts because that's how they are. It has been reported that he has made a lot of money on deals since he has been in office. They like that because they are selfish people and like getting tough with people.
Kidnapping that little 5 year old boy and sending him 500 miles to Texas. that's fine as well, he has no documents. They shrug.
If you want 'grown ups' try Mark Carney both his speeches at Davos and 3 days ago he addressed the Australian Parliament. (It's on YouTube in full)

These types of posts are par for the course on threads like these. It's like someone puts 50p in the straw-man machine somewhere and they come flapping into view within a few posts.

US presidents aren't overthrown. As others have said, the Senate would need to convict Trump of an impeachable offense for him to be removed from office. This requires two-thirds of the Senate to agree that he should be convicted of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” No party has held two-thirds of the Senate since the 1960s and no president has ever been convicted of an impeachable offense by the Senate.

The president doesn't control elections and Trump can't cancel the midterms. In nearly every midterm election over the last 80 years, the president's party has lost seats, so it's extremely likely that the Republicans will lose seats, seriously reducing Trump's influence.

I don't think Talarico would have got the nomination if he was Black, female and Non Christian though. The losing Dem candidate is black and female not sure about her religious beliefs - Jasmine Crockett. Having said that, his Christianity appears to be the real deal, not the fundamentalist shite that is a mask for hatred etc. But I reckon he had to be Christian in Texas to get through.

This pretty much sums up my feelings
(when the photo is approved)

This. The US system of 'checks & balances' has been tested & found to be lacking.
Plus 77m voted for him, knowing exactly what he was like so it's Democracy.
The only hope is the Nov midterms which he is currently trying to rig.
If he dies we get JDV, also problematic & much younger.
Roll on Texas, roll on the midterms.

What a ridiculous comment

Really interesting post. Can I ask if you are American?

That's an interesting question.

I think that there needs to be a younger president in the White House. I think if the Ukrainian conflict has taught us anything it's that effective and decisive leadership can come from unexpected sources, not generations of wealth and privilege.

I think the younger generations will be very interesting to watch, the ones that have grown up with technology and social media. The ones who have experienced social inequality, extortionate medical insurance, job instability and crippling student debt.

I think that the current rising younger talent will be interesting to watch, including James Talarico, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pete Buttigieg, Ro Khanna, Wes Moore, and Josh Shapiro.

A caretaker president in the form of Vance will allow the democrats to bring forward younger talent and put some vibrance and hope back into the White House, not corruption on an industrial scale, racism and spiralling poverty.

Which Democrat would you like to see run next @KayPop?

Not necessarily.

If the democrats win the house and the senate, they can effectively neutralise any incumbent president. The president can Veto any bill they pass as well. So it effectively becomes a stalemate.

So the craziness would be contained and a limbo status in place until the next presidential election.

Vance does not command much respect in the Republican party or on the world stage, so he would effectively be a caretaker president.

The rhetoric about Vance being worse is just noise to persuade the masses that Trump isn't too bad, whilst ignoring the fundamental evidence in front of our eyes.

Well, yes and no.

It would be great to see Trump impeached. But the prospect of President Vance is frightening.

The whole thing is wild and the epitome of corruption. Even the fact that someone can just buy their way into being president, without having any political qualifications or experience blows my mind.

I am not a fan of Starmer by any means but Trump is no comparison. He is scarily dangerous and clearly is in the throes of having dementia but still being allowed to declare war on other countries. It’s terrifying.

Overthrown - like the January 6th attempt against Biden? There are groups of resistance to his policies, but they're locally based, I don't think there is much will for an overthrow even with everything going on.

If you mean why hasn't he been removed - the two impeachment attempts during his last term didn't go well and Democrats simply don't have the numbers. Maybe they will after the mid-terms, but whether they have the will for it remains to be seen.

I'm not sure if it should be a Democrat priority with everything going on. As others said, remove Trump, you get Vance. Remove Vance, you get Mike Johnson, then Rubio...keep going and we end up with RFK Jr. The US doesn't have the UK system of a leader gets unpopular and so their party votes for a new one. Congress can remove him with great difficult, but there is no process to remove the whole succession line. They need to focus on damage control that actually has impact for people if the Democrats want to keep momentum, I'm not sure an impeachment would get us there.

The checks and balances in the US isn't meant to be an oppositional party. American political parties developed during, but solidified after the constitution - technically, the whole thing can work without political parties at all. It's meant to be the three different branches are separate and do not answer to each other. Presidents for decades have been chipping away at that, Trump's been doing it at warp speed. I'm hoping once we're through this we might have enough popular pressure to firm that back up again, but I think it'll be difficult for people to push that through - both major parties like when they have that much control, that's why they've been expanded as far as they have, and then the other side yells how things have gone too far when they're not in control.

Another example of the selective outrage you see so often from the left.

Where is your outrage towards the murder by the Iranian regime of the 36,000 innocent Iranian civilians which happened last month OP?

Where is your outrage towards the Iranian state sponsored terrorism that has caused deaths all over the globe?

Where is your outrage at the repression the Iranian regime has inflicted on the Iranian people over the past 4 decades OP? Women and girls were raped in prison prior to execution because under their rules you can’t execute virgins.

In my town there are a group of people who assemble by the market cross on a Friday with their children and they bang on their pots and pans in protest at the events in Gaza.
Not a peep out of them in relation to the 36,000 innocent souls were gunned down last month though.

Mid terms will definitely be interesting