--- title: Maxine Waters' Advice for President Trump: 'Please Resign' description: Congresswoman Maxine Waters called for President Trump's resignation at the TIME 100 Gala Tuesday night. canonical: https://time.com/5253370/maxine-waters-donald-trump-resign-time-100/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-25T00:22:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T20:20:45.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Congresswoman Maxine Waters' Advice for President Trump: 'Please Resign' og:description: Waters is one of the 2018 TIME 100 og:url: https://time.com/5253370/maxine-waters-donald-trump-resign-time-100/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b26e56e24bc04de/69892e630a4a2239109d27cb/maxine-waters.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: LA Pride ResistMarch og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Congresswoman Maxine Waters' Advice for President Trump: 'Please Resign' twitter:description: Waters is one of the 2018 TIME 100 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b26e56e24bc04de/69892e630a4a2239109d27cb/maxine-waters.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Congresswoman Maxine Waters' Advice for President Trump: 'Please Resign' > Sponsored content. 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Maxine Waters attends the LA Pride ResistMarch on June 11, 2017 in West Hollywood, California. Chelsea Guglielmino—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 12, 2023 8:20 PM UTCPublished: Apr 25, 2018 12:22 AM UTC Congresswoman Maxine Waters shared a message for President Donald Trump during the TIME 100 Gala on Tuesday night. Asked if she had any advice for Trump, Waters, who represents California’s 43rd District, issued a request. “Please resign,” said Waters, who was named one of the most influential people of the year in the [2018 TIME 100](http://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217567/maxine-waters/). “So that I won’t have to keep up this fight of your having impeached because I don’t think you deserve to be there. Just get out.” Waters is one of the most vocal politicians calling for Trump to be removed from office, and has suggested impeaching the president multiple times since his inauguration. In the 2018 TIME 100, actor Yara Shahidi commended Waters for saying “what many of us are thinking,” from her declaration of “reclaiming my time” to her dedication to taking Trump out of the office of the presidency. “She is adored and admired by people who care about social justice and is oh so eloquent in letting the world, particularly the white men of Congress who dare test her acumen, know that she is not here for any nonsense,” Shahidi said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5253370/maxine-waters-donald-trump-resign-time-100/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5253370/maxine-waters-donald-trump-resign-time-100/"},"headline":"Congresswoman Maxine Waters' Advice for President Trump: 'Please Resign'","datePublished":"2018-04-25T00:22:40.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T20:20:45.000Z","description":"Waters is one of the 2018 TIME 100","url":"https://time.com/5253370/maxine-waters-donald-trump-resign-time-100/","keywords":["TIME 100","GALA","onetime","T1002018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b26e56e24bc04de/69892e630a4a2239109d27cb/maxine-waters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b26e56e24bc04de/69892e630a4a2239109d27cb/maxine-waters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"LA Pride ResistMarch","caption":"LA Pride ResistMarch","creditText":"Chelsea Guglielmino—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-100/","name":"TIME 100"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5253370/maxine-waters-donald-trump-resign-time-100/","name":"Congresswoman Maxine Waters' Advice for President Trump: 'Please Resign'"}}]}] ```