Saturday, May 17, 2025

Has Trump Nonsense Reached Section 4 of the 25th Amendment Invoking Time?


The day after Trump's bizarre social media attack on Bruce Springsteen, which was not only totally not presidential, due to its childish gibberish, embarrassingly immature coming from a 78-year-old adult male, Trump went on a fresh tirade, somehow triggered by President Biden's use of an Auto-Pen to sign Executive Orders.

Trump may have already committed high crimes and misdemeanors, in his second presidential term, warranting impeachment. 

Trump's attacks on Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, and others. And nonsense like this Auto-Pen diatribe may not be impeachable offenses, but they are surely indicative of a man who is not of sound mind.

Dealing with such is why the 25th Amendment was added to the United States Constitution. Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, specifically...

Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Article 4 of the 25th Amendment has only been considered for invocation twice. Once when President Ronald Reagan was shot. And a second time after the January 6 United States Capitol attack, President Donald Trump was accused of having incited the incident, and by evening some of his Cabinet members were reportedly considering trying to get Vice President Mike Pence to agree to invoke Section 4.

Methinks the majority of Americans, and the majority of the citizens of the rest of the World, agree, something needs to be done about Trump. And done soon...

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