Was President Trump asked to resign from his presidency by Congress?
Executive summary
Available reporting shows members of Congress and some officials have publicly urged or suggested that President Trump resign at various times — especially during crises such as the post‑Jan. 6 fallout and later political fights — but there is no single, definitive congressional demand that forced or formally asked him to resign as president in the sources provided (examples of calls for resignation or voluntary resignation exist) [1] [2]. Coverage in late 2025 also documents that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would resign from Congress after a public break with Trump, not that Congress asked the president to resign [3] [4].
1. Congressional calls for resignation: episodic, public appeals, not a formal removal
Members of Congress — including some Republicans in rare instances — have publicly called for President Trump to resign or have urged voluntary resignation following crises tied to his conduct; Wikipedia’s summary of the second impeachment notes that “two Republican senators have called for his voluntary resignation” in that episode, illustrating that calls have been intermittent and individual rather than a unified congressional demand [1]. Separate material collected by Rep. Henry Cuellar’s office documents editorials and officials urging resignation or other removal mechanisms, showing that public appeals from Congress or its allies have been raised as options historically [2].
2. Impeachment and formal congressional mechanisms remain distinct from a “request to resign”
Congress can remove a president only through impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate, or indirectly press for resignation; H.Res.353 in the 119th Congress is an example of the House pursuing impeachment articles against President Trump, which is a formal process distinct from asking him to step down voluntarily [5]. The sources show Congress has used formal instruments (impeachment resolutions) and public pressure separately; asking for resignation is a political appeal but does not substitute for constitutional removal procedures [5].
3. Context: high‑profile moments that prompted calls for resignation
High-profile episodes — notably the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack and other controversies — generated intensified calls for resignation from media, editorial boards and some lawmakers, which fed congressional debate about impeachment, the 25th Amendment, or voluntary departure [2] [1]. Those episodes produced advocacy for resignation in editorials and some congressional statements, but the documentary record in these sources frames those as responses and proposals rather than as a single congressional request that resulted in his leaving office [2] [1].
4. Recent 2025 reporting: resignations within Congress, not resignation demands of the president
Late‑2025 coverage focuses on intra‑party tensions — for example, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s announcement that she will resign from her House seat after a falling out with Trump — and on debates about Trump’s influence, but these stories treat congressional resignations or threats of primary challenges as consequences of political conflict rather than evidence that Congress formally asked the president himself to resign [3] [4] [6]. Reuters, The Washington Post and others reported Greene’s departure as a symptom of friction in the GOP, not as Congress issuing a demand for presidential resignation [7] [8].
5. Competing perspectives and limits of the record
One perspective emphasizes that some lawmakers and editorial boards explicitly urged Trump to resign or be removed — portraying resignation as the appropriate remedy for alleged violations or risks to democracy [2] [1]. Another perspective stresses that resignation was politically unlikely and that Congress relied on constitutional tools (impeachment, 25th Amendment) or electoral processes instead [5] [1]. Available sources do not mention a single, contemporaneous instance where “Congress asked President Trump to resign” as a unified institutional act forcing him out; instead, the record shows individual lawmakers and public voices urging resignation at different moments [1] [2].
6. What the sources do not show
Available sources do not mention Congress as a single body issuing a formal, unified “ask” that the president resign and him complying; they also do not document a congressional resolution framed solely as a direct demand for resignation leading to his departure. If you are asking whether Congress—collectively and formally—asked Trump to step down and thereby ended his presidency, that specific claim is not substantiated in the materials provided (not found in current reporting) [5] [1].
If you want, I can track down specific statements by named members of Congress who publicly urged resignation at particular dates, or pull the text of H.Res.353 and contemporaneous floor statements for more granular sourcing.