Tucker Carlson Issues Shocking Call for Trump’s Cabinet to Remove Him from Office Via 25th Amendment: He Should Be ‘Bundled Up and Taken Out!’

Tucker Carlson called for President Donald Trump to be removed from office by his own administration officials under the 25th Amendment.

In an interview published Thursday with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, Carlson continued his criticism of Trump, someone he once vocally supported, and went from impeachment talk to the 25th Amendment while discussing the ongoing Iran war.

“He’s not going to be punished for it. They’ll get him on corruption or whatever,” Carlson said when asked if Trump should be impeached over the war.

The former Fox News host declared Trump “should have been removed from office immediately when he threatened nuclear war.”

“Threatening the offensive use of nuclear weapons? Which is to say threatening the destruction of humanity?!” a shocked Carlson said.

In his United Nations address this week, Trump threatened to “annihilate” Iran if the war continues.

“Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before — maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East, or even the world? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell, with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness for generations?” the president said.

He’s made similar comments in the past about Iran.

“It’s enough for me to say he should be removed from office. He should have been removed from office by his own Cabinet secretaries the moment he threatened a nuclear attack,” Carlson said.

Inskeep asked Carlson if he was referring to the 25th Amendment, and he confirmed he was.

“That’s correct. He should have been bundled up and taken out. That’s a crime. There’s no greater crime than that,” Carlson said.

Part of the 25th Amendment allows for a vice president and majority of Cabinet secretaries to force the removal of a president who cannot fulfill the duties of his office or is in direct violation of them.

“Here you have a guy threatening to eliminate the human race and that’s not considered a crime?!” Carlson said about Trump. “It tells you how deranged our moral scale has become. So he should be removed from office for threatening first-use nuclear strike.”

Watch above via NPR.

Jason Cohen contributed to this report.

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