{"id":2436165,"date":"2025-05-18T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/al-green-suggests-military-coup-coming-under-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:52:16","slug":"al-green-suggests-military-coup-coming-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/al-green-suggests-military-coup-coming-under-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Green suggests military coup coming under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fal-green-suggests-military-coup-coming-under-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2436165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Al Green (D-TX) has recently faced criticism for his provocative comments regarding President Donald Trump, suggesting that impeachment efforts should not wait until a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/betrayed-from-within-patrick-byrne-blasts-white-house-staff-after-attending-election-meeting-with-president-trump-sydney-powell-and-gen-flynn\/\" title=\"\u201cBetrayed From Within\u201d: Patrick Byrne Blasts White House Staff After Attending Election Meeting With ... ..., Sydney Powell and Gen. Flynn\">military coup<\/a> occurs<\/a>.Green justified his third attempt to impeach Trump by warning that failure to act could lead to &#8220;tanks rolling down the streets of American cities,&#8221; framing impeachment as a necessary deterrent against authoritarianism.His remarks have sparked controversy, notably after his disruptive behavior during a joint session of Congress in March, where he was later censured by his peers.Despite backlash from within his party, Green expressed no regrets about his actions, claiming a moral obligation to confront perceived threats to democracy. He has faced disapproval from fellow Democrats who advocate for focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youre-just-scum-haley-goes-nuclear-on-ramaswamy-after-he-attacks-her-family\/\" title=\"&#039;You&#039;re Just Scum!&#039; Haley Goes Nuclear on Ramaswamy After He Attacks Her Family\">substantive policy issues<\/a> rather than impeachment rhetoric.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Al Green suggests military coup coming under Trump, refuses to pivot from attacks<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2030109\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Al Green (D-TX) attempted to justify his efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/impeachment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">impeach <\/a>President Donald Trump for the third time by implying the president may carry out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">military <\/a>coup with tanks &ldquo;rolling down the streets of American cities.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Green sparked controversy in March and was censured by Congress after he waved his cane and yelled at Trump during the president&rsquo;s joint address to legislators. The Texas lawmaker&rsquo;s latest<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/al-green-trump-impeachment-wait-tanks-rolling-2073720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> comments<\/a> to <em>Newsweek <\/em>defy warnings from Democratic colleagues to step back from provocative actions and inflammatory impeachment talk and instead focus on policy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3415204\/mccarthy-trump-johnson-job-speaker-tax-bill-house\/\">McCarthy suggests Trump doing Johnson&rsquo;s job as speaker after &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-fights-to-keep-trumps-ear-as-house-agenda-stalls-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Mike Johnson fights to keep ...\u2019s ear as House agenda stalls - Washington Examiner\">big beautiful bill&#038;rsquo<\/a>; crashes in House<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3413986\/how-nice-too-nice-politics-jeff-hurd-find-out\/\">How nice is too nice for politics? Jeff Hurd wants to find out<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3414346\/why-gop-shouldnt-underestimate-aoc\/\">Why the GOP shouldn&#8217;t underestimate AOC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t wait [to start impeachment efforts] until tanks are rolling down the streets of American cities,&rdquo; Green told the outlet. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s too late then. You don&rsquo;t wait until you have what everybody will recognize as a constitutional crisis, because that can be the forerunner to tanks moving down the streets of American cities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have this unique opportunity to use impeachment as a deterrent to stop him and prevent what could become more than we have seen in this country in terms of power emanating from a presidency that is out of control,&rdquo; he added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Green&rsquo;s remarks come after Democrats criticized him for his behavior during Trump&rsquo;s high-profile joint address to Congress this spring.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After he was forcibly removed from the chamber for shouting and waving his cane at the president, ten Democrats joined Republican members in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3339250\/al-green-censured-outburst-trump-joint-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">passing a resolution <\/a>censuring<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3339250\/al-green-censured-outburst-trump-joint-address\/\"> <\/a>the Texas Democrat, making him only the 28th member of the House to receive the congressional rebuke.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Despicable,&rdquo; Democratic strategist David Axelrod <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3339513\/democratic-party-attempt-engage-voters-attack-trump-fall-flat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said of Green&rsquo;s outburst<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A sad cavalcade of self-owns and unhinged petulance,&rdquo; Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) added in remarks targeted at the protest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained,&rdquo; Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FSenFettermanPA%2Fstatus%2F1897344327157960906&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ciswanson%40thehill.com%7C166f0a514439408551d708dd5c25bbc1%7C9e5488e2e83844f6886cc7608242767e%7C1%7C0%7C638768039330711049%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ItkEf5jg7%2BYBHoFoBQLI2AlZ82wSmm1ZTANSUEBVmlY%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">concluded<\/a> following the joint address. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to&mdash;and it may not be the winning message.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on the criticism from Democrats during his latest interview, Green said he would do it all over again if given the opportunity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am Al Green, an unbought, unbossed, unafraid, liberated Democrat. I will speak truth to power, which is pretty easy to do. You simply say, &lsquo;Power, we have a problem. Let&rsquo;s solve it. I will do that, but I&rsquo;ll also speak truth about power and say, power, we have a problem, and you&rsquo;re it,&rsquo;&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Green added that his protest in March was spontaneous, but that &ldquo;as I think about it now, I would do it again without the spontaneity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To be quite candid with you, because it was not just the right thing to do,&rdquo; Green said. &ldquo;It was the righteous thing to do. I&rsquo;m talking about protecting and saving lives, and there is no mandate to do the things that they want to do to Medicaid.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Green has also come under fire from Democratic colleagues for pushing efforts to impeach Trump. The Texas lawmaker<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3311981\/trump-new-impeachment-articles-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> introduced articles of impeachment <\/a>in February, and again on May 15.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, shouts as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3356762\/democrats-reality-unpopular-policies-electoral-math-midterm-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DEMOCRATS FACE GLOOMY REALITY AS UNPOPULAR POLICIES BLEED INTO ELECTORAL MATH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), one of the most powerful Democrats in the House,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3395524\/aguilar-trump-impeachment-efforts-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> rejected <\/a>such impeachment pushes in April, calling on his colleagues to focus on policy instead&mdash; &ldquo;items that the American public is paying attention to.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Right now, we will deal with the tools in front of us,&rdquo; Aguilar, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said. &ldquo;The policies that he and House Republicans have placed forward &mdash; which are reckless cuts to the healthcare system, to our supplemental nutrition that is relied on by women and children and families across this country &mdash; those are the policies that we&rsquo;re going to push back against.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2030109\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2030109\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Green warns of a potential military coup under Trump, justifying his third impeachment effort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2436166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Green-March.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[51540,55485,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2436165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-al-green","tag-military-coup","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Green-March.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436169,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436165\/revisions\/2436169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}