Remove Donald Trump From Office. Now.

Donald Trump did this.

Donald Trump built up a base of rabid right-wing populists to sustain his lust for power and managed to fool enough people into believing that he was looking out for their interests when he was only looking out for his own.  He used that deception to enrich himself and his cronies - but mostly himself -  and give himself so much power through the office of the Presidency that he though the could serve as President for life and exact every last bit of power he could to make himself omnipotent.  He also lied to his supporters and convinced them that he had been rightfully re-elected against President-elect Joe Biden and, refusing to concede, urged them to "stand by" against the liberals, the minorities, the elites, and the so-called Deep State before exhorting them to march to the Capitol on the day of the congressional certification of the electoral vote for President and Vice President.  When they approached the Capitol, the inevitable happened.  

Trump specifically told his supporters to march on the Capitol to force his re-election.  His minions in Congress aided and abetted in planning to dispute the electoral votes of no fewer than six states.  He even tried to get Vice President Mike Pence to invalidate the vote, something Pence was constitutionally  unable to do and something he refused to do.  All indications are that Trump was enjoying the spectacle watching it on TV form the White House.  He has since condemned the violence, but without much if any sincerity, spewing lies about how he wanted and tried to bring order to the chaos by calling out the National Guard (Pence and the Defense Department actually did that).  All Trump did was throw his own supporters under the bus.  With the electoral vote having been certified for Joe Biden, Trump now admits he will no longer be President after noon on January 20.  But here's the problem - he will still be President before then.

In the eleven days left in his "Presidency," Trump, who remains deluded by his own lies, has control over the nuclear codes and has the ability to do a lot of damage even without launching a nuclear missile to some place like Iran.  Five people already died at the Capitol this past week because of him.  He is dangerous.  He must be removed immediately and Mike Pence should be President in the waning days of the current presidential term.  If the Vice President himself won't confer with what's left of the Cabinet (Elaine Chao, the Secretary of Transportation, has resigned, as has Education Secretary Betsy DeVos) and invoke Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, then Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer should do what they promised (or threatened) to do - impeach and convict Trump as quickly as possible.  I still doubt that Trump will leave the White House on his own despite his mealy-mouthed promise to do so this past Thursday, and so he must be removed by any legal means necessary.  The sooner the better.  America has had numerous figures from all walks of life, from politics to popular culture, that have brought disgrace upon this country because they have negatively embodied America in the eyes of the world, and I've written about a few of them here, but none of them have brought the magnitude of disgrace upon this country that Donald John Trump has.

It's time for him to go.