Why isn’t Trump being overthrown?

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I’m sorry if this is a really thick question but I’m guessing that the answers will be multi-faceted.

Why isn’t Trump being overthrown internally in the US? He is presiding over a shit show and trampling over the constitution from what I understand. But there doesn’t seem to be massive resistance to this (or at least none reported). Can anyone explain why this is, please. Genuine question.

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

What a ridiculous comment

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

So you’re happy that you have a ln unconvincted paedophile and a nepotistic convicted fraudster in charge of your country? Not to mention someone who isn’t that interested in looking after anyone in the country who doesn’t look and think like he does?

Also, genuinely, what has he done that constitutes the ‘most part’ that you like? I get that we might not hear about the good stuff he’s doing as it’s eclipsed by the bad, but if there are positives they should be highlighted. What are they?

This poster defended ICE when they shot a woman in the face, so don't expect much in the way of moral clarity.

Ah, thanks for the heads-up!

Yes they’re infamous for their extreme right views.

Starmer approval rating is even worse, both are power hungry ego maniacs.

Who put 50p in the straw-man machine?*

*With acknowledgement to @HangingOutAtTheRialto

He has caused significant and long term damage to this country that won’t be reversed for a generation. History will not be kind to him.

Trump won the popular vote in 2024.
He has lots of support.
Maybe what you're seeing is a failure of democratic accountability inherent in the Constitution, bcz his approval ratings are very low. Congress and Supreme Court are both supposed to hold presidential power in check. They aren't doing that bcz (Justice) Roberts wanted greater Exec Power since his days in Reagain administration. Meanwhile, McConnell missed the chance to impeach the Fecker when he should have.

Maybe it's literally a structural deficit though, that one Demigogue should be able to entrench power in the main federal government structures so (relatively) easily. The whole democratic apparatus has never been this tested before, even Nixon had enough shreds of dignity to feel shame and resign.

McConnell also blocked appt of Merrick Garland to SCOTUS entrenching the current SCOTUS very conservative super-majority that we see now.

Trying to blame McConnell means : should we blame the anti-abortion propagandists at work since 1980s for making Evangelicals think nothing else was more important?