"I don't think I ever would vote for any president dumb enough to appoint a Cabinet that one day would kick him out of office by majority vote. This is not the only reason that the 25th Amendment lies there in the Constitution like a load of dead mackerel on the dock. But it is the biggest reason why the 25th is the deadest of dead letters. It is not merely dead. It's really most sincerely dead. I mention this"
"because the president was so publicly loony over the weekend that even the most stoic Scandinavian was laughing at him. He wrote a letter and a text to the prime minister of Norway, both of them nuttier than fox squirrel and both reflective of his lunatic obsession with the Nobel Peace Prize. He threatened half the countries of Europe with severe tariffs if they didn't join him in his lunatic obsession with"
The 25th Amendment is effectively inoperable because multiple political and procedural choke-points make invocation unlikely. The president displayed public erratic conduct by sending a letter and text to Norway's prime minister, threatening European countries with severe tariffs over Greenland, posting private messages from France's president, accusing Britain of 'stupidity,' sharing a NATO head's text, and circulating apparent AI-generated images of the American flag over Greenland and Canada. Those actions intensified concerns about presidential fitness while underscoring the difficulty of assembling the vice president and a majority of Cabinet officials (or a congressional body) to certify incapacity.
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