"Section 4 of the 25 th Amendment is particularly relevant to our current circumstances, as it provides that the president be removed from office because he is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." That part of the amendment has never been used, but it was raised during his first term, and we need to revisit those conversations, as it appears that Trump's cognitive abilities might be significantly impaired, particularly later in the day."
""We're not at a 25 th Amendment level yet." According to Michael Wolff's 2018 book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, that's what staffers were saying in the president's residence during the first year of his first term. That "yet" was doing a lot of work. And seven years on, it feels like we've left that "yet" in the rear-view mirror some miles back."
"During Trump's first term in office, concerns were expressed over his mental acuity over incidents that seem quaint in 2025, from leaked stories of his White House behavior, his incoherent tweetstorms ( Covfefe, anyone?), or suggesting that injecting bleach could cure COVID-19. Things got so bad that Trump was insistent on including a "difficult" cognitive test in his physical, and bragged about his results in his " man, woman, person, camera, TV" speeches."
Staffers once said "We're not at a 25 th Amendment level yet," but that "yet" increasingly appears distant as concerns about presidential fitness intensify. Section 4 of the 25 th Amendment allows removal of a president unable to discharge the powers and duties of office; that clause has never been used but was invoked as a possibility during his first term. Reports cite patterns of erratic behavior, incoherent public communications, and dangerous suggestions such as injecting bleach, along with an insistence on a difficult cognitive test and public boasting about its results, raising questions about cognitive decline, particularly later in the day.
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