Most Impeachable Person in U.S. History

In 2026, Trump’s 2.0 impeachable offenses include his use of the paramilitary force ICE against the U.S. public; his blowing up of boats widely recognized by human rights groups and some Congress members as nothing other than mass murder; and his new war launched together with Israel against Iran.

By Progressive Hub Team

Instead of urging people to hand over their Nobel prizes and Olympic medals, Donald Trump should sit back and accept a prize as the most impeachable person in U.S. history. It isn’t even close.

At RootsAction we proposed Trump’s impeachment on his first day in office in 2017. There were already major grounds for it, since he was boasting that he’d be violating the Constitution’s emoluments clauses (gifts, bribery). Then we tried to be very selective as the high crimes and misdemeanors snowballed, yet really couldn’t avoid listing 25 of the most serious abuses of power — which we also published as a book a couple of years into Trump 1.0. We explained our strategy and added an FAQ.

Congress had other ideas, avoiding the most overwhelming cases to focus on possible corruption involving Ukraine, as Congress members denounced Trump for slowing down weapons shipments. Later, of course, they also impeached him for attempting a coup, the first of many dozens of U.S.-backed coups a president has ever been impeached for, but this one was in Washington, D.C. (Trump had, at that time, already supported an attempted coup in Venezuela, whereas Trump 2.0 has openly interfered in elections in countries such as Argentina, Canada, and Honduras, while also kidnapping the president of Venezuela — for any of which crimes an impeachment is hardly imaginable.)

Outside of impeachments, Democrats devoted most of their Trump 1.0 investigations to the inflated claims of Russiagate before shifting to support for their own president’s offenses—most notably, illegal weapons shipments to Israel for its genocide in Gaza.

In 2026, Trump’s 2.0 impeachable offenses include his use of the paramilitary force ICE against the U.S. public; his blowing up of boats widely recognized by human rights groups and some Congress members as nothing other than mass murder; and his new war launched together with Israel against Iran.

The Catch-22, of course, is that Republicans are loyal to Trump, not to the rule of law, so they will not convict in the Senate under anything but the most extreme circumstances, as if the current ones aren’t extreme enough. Meanwhile, Democrats will only bring impeachments to trial when they can identify crimes and abuses that they haven’t themselves defended. Financial corruption is the basic bread-and-butter of both parties, while Trump has taken it to new heights. War-making is often a ticket to big funding, media adulation, and quick promotion. So, it takes a sex scandal or a truly unique outrage to get an impeachment, but those charges don’t result in convictions.

We hold rallies to proclaim “No Kings.” We shouldn’t do so without pointing out that without the first branch of government behaving as court jesters there could be no king. The most basic upholding by Congress members of their oath to support the Constitution would quickly toss Trump out the door.