Donald Trump’s madcap threat to destroy Iran’s “whole civilisation” sent shudders down spines in Washington. Armageddon has been averted for now, but the chatter about invoking the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution to remove the US President on grounds of mental instability continues.

This isn’t just a parlour game. Military leaders and cabinet members will have been privately examining their consciences and asking themselves just how far they would cross their own moral boundaries for Trump. Democrats have been publicly clamouring for the removal of the Mad King.

But I never thought I would hear Alex Jones of Infowars, a conspiracy theorist and one of the original Make America Great Again stars, accuse Trump of behaving like a “supervillain” and ask, “How do we 25th amendment his ass?”

This law allows power to be transferred to the Vice President if a sitting President is physically or mentally incapable of performing his job. Let’s be clear. To topple Trump in the present circumstances would involve a coup. There is no way he would transfer power to JD Vance voluntarily.

But there is a war raging inside the Maga movement that could ultimately bring Trump down. Right-wing influencers with the biggest bullhorns – Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly and Jones – are treating the President like a spent force and jostling for a future without........

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