CNN host pushes back on Democrat calls to impeach Trump
CNN anchor Michael Smerconish delivered a withering takedown of Democrat calls to impeach President Donald Trump on Saturday, methodically dismantling claims that the president is mentally unfit to serve — and doing so using the Democrats own favourite newspaper as his primary evidence.
The primetime host opened by revisiting the furore over Bill Maher’s White House dinner with Trump last spring, which triggered a predictable liberal meltdown — most memorably from producer Larry David, who skewered Maher in the New York Times with the headline My Dinner with Adolf.
Smerconish sided firmly with Maher. “In a choice between two of my favourite comedians, I stood with Maher on the theory that it is better to have dialogue and to break bread than to demonize.” Maher, for his part, had dinner, returned to television, and carried on criticising the president regardless.
The renewed Democrat push for impeachment and the 25th Amendment was triggered this week by Trump’s Truth Social posts during the Iran conflict — posts that his critics seized upon as proof of instability. The irony, as Smerconish pointed out, was that the strategy appeared to work: a ceasefire was brokered just 90 minutes before Trump’s own deadline, with Pakistan successfully negotiating a two-week halt to hostilities.
Smerconish then walked viewers through a detailed New York Times reconstruction of the behind-closed-doors process that led to Operation Epic Fury — the US strike on Iran. The account described John Ratcliffe dismissing Israeli regime-change proposals as unrealistic, Marco Rubio flatly rejecting them, and JD Vance emerging as the most vocal opponent of military action inside the White House.
🚨NEW: CNN's Michael Smerconish *OBLITERATES* calls to remove Trump from office🚨
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New intelligence ultimately created urgency, revealing that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be exposed in a rare vulnerable setting. Trump still gave diplomacy a final chance, but after envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner reported Iran was not negotiating in good faith, the focus shifted to action. At a Situation Room meeting on February 26, Trump heard all sides — including dissenting voices — consulted legal counsel, and made the final call aboard Air Force One just 22 minutes before the deadline expired.
Smerconish was blunt about what the Times account actually revealed. “It shows airing of competing views, some open to dissent, reliance on legal counsel, and a deliberative process — not the impulsivity with which Trump is so often associated.”
He delivered his sharpest line with characteristic precision: It is not that there is a method to his madness — it is that the madness is his method. The performance, he argued, is losing its potency, and the impeachment rhetoric is wearing thin even among Trump’s traditional media critics.
His conclusion cut to the heart of the Democrat narrative. The same New York Times that Trump’s opponents routinely cite as gospel had just documented patience, process, and genuine deliberation from a president they insist is unhinged. “He went around the table. He heard the dissent. He consulted the lawyers. He made a hard call under enormous pressure. And 90 minutes before his own deadline, a ceasefire materialized.”
Smerconish was unambiguous: That is not the behaviour of someone who needs the 25th Amendment invoked or warrants impeaching. Democrats have spent years trying to convince the public Trump is off his rocker. A CNN host just demolished that narrative in a matter of minutes — using their own sources to do it.
Reporting by Celeb BNews staff.