'He will not be in power forever': Nobel Prize winner gives stark 'warning to Republicans'

A Nobel Prize winner has suggested the military should stop indulging Donald Trump's "sick fantasies" of power.

Paul Krugman urged those in power to "stand down and refuse" to follow the orders of the president and his administration. The economist warned both the military and Republican Party they would be remembered as "cowards and hypocrites" if they did not take Trump to task on recent ICE incidents.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement teams have been heavily criticised in recent days following the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by ICE agents. An unrelated shooting in Portland by Border Patrol left two in hospital.

Krugman, writing in his Substack, shared, "So here’s a warning to the US military: if you continue to indulge the sick fantasies of this man, he will drag this country into more and deeper international morasses to feed his need for glory."

"Do what Admiral Alvin Holsey, an honorable man, did – stand down and refuse an illegal order. Here’s a warning to the Republicans: if you continue to allow this man to perpetrate war against his own people with impunity through the actions of ICE, you will be remembered as cowards and hypocrites."

"Here’s a warning to all his other enablers: if you do not do something to stop this madman, you will go down in history as traitors to this country." The Nobel Prize winner had a stern warning for those "directly perpetrating" the president's actions, too.

He added, "And here’s a warning to those directly perpetrating Trump-directed atrocities: He will not be in power forever, and I expect and hope that you will be held accountable, personally, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law."

Krugman, like many other political commentators, has openly criticized the recent actions of ICE. He wrote, "A president who actually cared about the welfare of those he governs would have taken Good’s killing as an indication that his deportation tactics have veered wildly and tragically off course."

"He would have called for a halt of ICE actions and made sure there would be an objective and timely federal investigation into this national tragedy."

"But for Trump, ICE’s violent lawlessness is a feature, not a bug. Sending armed, masked, poorly trained, masked and out-of-control armed thugs into blue cities is, in effect, a war on Americans, just as January 6 was a war on American institutions. In effect, Trump would rather savage his own people than be held accountable for his actions."