re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Theoretically, the POTUS can call on the party to vote to remove them from their positions as speaker and majority leader, but he cannot force any such action on their part.

Thinking about this, one supposes that there actually IS a way for “Trump to replace Ryan and McConnell” - although it would entail putting some sort of pressure on a majority of Republican Representatives (at least 121) to vote to oust Speaker Ryan and replace him with another, presumably more-pliable candidate. How the Trump WH might manage this difficult (and AFAIK, unprecedented) feat is an enormous - one might say YUUUUGE! - question*: In addition to likely voluntarily sparking an intra-party fight of the likes unseen since the Civil Rights fights of the ’50s and ’60s, it:
1. Has no Constitutional, legal, administrative (not to mention customary) precedent OR process.
2. Would require extraordinary “pure politicking” skills WAY beyond the capacity of this White House.
3. Assumes that the Trump Personality Cult has enough public support in enough Congressional districts to overcome party-organization opposition (if any).
4. Would have to be accomplished pretty much immediately, as this sort of GOP civil war would probably damage (sink?) the Party’s chances for next year. In which case (under rules the Republicans themselves have set up) they would be a Minority with little power beyond pure obstructionism.

*and repeat the process with the even-more-famously-independent Senate. Good friggin’ luck!