Piers Morgan has said he's officially ending his friendship with US President Donald Trump after the riots in the Capitol on Wednesday.
Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building as Congress were completing the proceedings to officially name Joe Biden as the 46th President, leading to looting and riots that left four people dead in the chaos.
The President implored the rioters to go home but refused to condemn then, calling them "special people" and saying he loves them.
Writing in his column for the Daily Mail, Piers called Trump "mentally unstable", "deranged" and "dangerous" and said their friendship is over.
The Good Morning Britain host wrote: "In the past year, he has morphed into a monster that I no longer recognise as someone I considered to be a friend and thought I knew."
Piers added: "I never imagined he would be capable of becoming what he's now become – the deranged figurehead of a bunch of hard-right conspiracy-theory-fuelled fanatics intent on destroying American democracy."
Piers has called for Trump to be impeached so he can't do any more harm.
But he said his preferred action would be to the invoke the 25th Amendment, which says that if the President becomes unable to do his job, the Vice President becomes the President.
Piers and the president have been friends for 15 years.
The pair fell out when Piers criticised Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
They seem to have made up as Piers said he last spoke to Trump a week before the election and he sounded like his old friend.
But now he says he wouldn't even take his call if Trump called him today.
He continued: "I can't remain friends with someone who says he 'loves' a bunch of violent Nazi sympathisers and white supremacists who've just launched a deadly attack on the epicentre of US democracy itself and thinks they're 'special people."
