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Originally Posted by crockett
A coup requires the muscle of the military and the military doesn't like Trump. There was an interesting post on Reddit today from an Airforce officer. He said most of the officers have gone from wait and see to WTF.
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Not quite. The actual definition does not require the military to be the ones taking power.
"A coup d'état, also known simply as a coup (/kuː/), putsch, or an overthrow, is the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus.[1]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'%C3%A9tat