AOC doubles down on call for Trump's ouster even after ceasefire announcement

By Fox News · Fox News

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., continued calling for President Donald Trump's ouster on Tuesday even after the president announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran. "This statement changes nothing," she asserted in a post on X, referring to the president's Tuesday evening ceasefire announcement. "Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office." Prior to the ceasefire announcement, Trump, who had been threatening to unleash a devastating attack against Iranian power plants and bridges, sent the following warning in a Tuesday morning Truth Social post: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?" Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the progressive cadre of lawmakers known as "The Squad," responded by declaring in a post on X, "This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat." But then on Tuesday night, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire. TRUMP AGREES TO 2-WEEK CEASEFIRE IF IRAN OPENS STRAIT OF HORMUZ "Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!" the president wrote in part of a Truth Social post . "Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between…