The Evidence
Continuing Reasons why the 25th Amendment is still center stage in a failing presidency.
Six months ago, Gianni Infantino hung a gold medal around Donald Trump's neck and called it a peace prize. As the 2026 tournament begins, the administration that accepted that honor is detaining referees, body-searching teams on the tarmac, banning supporters by decree, and broadcasting to the planet that the United States is closed to anyone whose passport it does not like.
A blockbuster New York Times exclusive lays bare an emergency meeting Donald Trump was not told about — convened by a "panicked" vice president to manage a crisis the president had created and was incapable of confronting. The victims are still waiting for justice. The Constitution is still waiting for a president who can do the job.
The Pentagon has raised Israel to its highest counterintelligence threat tier. The CIA has stopped sharing Iran intelligence with the President’s own Director of National Intelligence. And the men sitting across the table from Iran are being listened to — by an interested foreign power. This is not the workings of a functioning national security state. It is the portrait of a presidency that can no longer keep its own confidence.
A 79-year-old president posts a conspiracy theory in the dead of night. A few hours later, his appointee at the Justice Department announces probes into a state election in which no federal contest appears on the ballot. This is not normal. This is not lawful improvisation. This is what a presidency in decay looks like when it still controls the machinery of federal prosecution.
A Cold War statute meant for genuine national emergencies is now propping up the dirtiest, costliest fuel on America's grid. The bailout enriches a narrow circle of donors, deepens the climate crisis, and adds one more entry to a growing record of presidential decisions detached from any defensible reading of the public interest.
The Justice Department has trained its prosecutorial machinery on an 82-year-old woman who twice beat Donald Trump in court. Strip away the legal jargon and what remains is a vendetta — and a profound failure of leadership that the framers anticipated when they wrote the 25th Amendment.
More than half of the corporate donors funding Donald Trump's vanity ballroom have, within six months, harvested fifty billion dollars in new federal contracts. The numbers tell a story the White House refuses to: this is no longer governing. It is transactional rule.
The New World screwworm is now in Texas for the first time in nearly six decades. It did not arrive by accident. It arrived after a year of gutted agencies, sidelined scientists, blunt-instrument diplomacy, and a deliberate refusal to acknowledge the warming climate that is widening the door. The bill — measured in billions, and in the price of a pound of ground beef — is about to land on every kitchen table in America.
The Trump administration paid a French oil company nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money to abandon clean energy off the New York coast — and seven attorneys general say the deal is illegal. The deeper question is whether a president who governs by personal grievance is fit to hold the office at all.
The Trump administration is openly considering using federal customs authority as a weapon against American cities — pulling international flights from Newark, New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Philadelphia in retaliation for protests against an ICE jail. Days before the World Cup. With nothing in the way except whatever shame this administration still has left.