The Evidence
Continuing Reasons why the 25th Amendment is still center stage in a failing presidency.
Twelve billionaires went to China. The American people got a Boeing order and a humiliation. What Trump's summit with Xi Jinping revealed about the priorities of this administration — and why constitutional alarms are ringing louder than ever.
A "mandatory" new demand. A round of "self-defense" bombings hours after talks were declared progressing. A president outsourcing approval to Jerusalem while American families pay $327 more at the pump. This is not statecraft. It is improvisation with consequences.
Seven in ten American farmers cannot afford the fertilizer they need to plant this year. The Farm Bureau's own data tells the story — but the deeper story is about a president whose tariffs, war, and silence have turned the heartland into collateral damage, and the constitutional questions Washington can no longer avoid.
The president filed an OGE Form 278-T this month that reads like a hedge-fund prospectus — 3,642 securities transactions in a single quarter, valued between $220 million and $750 million, in companies his own administration regulates. The numbers are staggering. The pattern is worse. And the constitutional question is no longer hypothetical.
For nearly a year, the Trump administration has used the licensing power of the Federal Communications Commission as a cudgel against broadcasters who displease the president. With a 52-page filing signed by one of the country’s most prominent Supreme Court litigators, Disney has decided that this is where capitulation stops. The stakes are not the future of The View. The stakes are whether a presidency can punish criticism into silence.
On May 12, the Justice Department issued a written opinion blessing the administration's seizure of state voter rolls — six federal judges, three of them Trump appointees, have already said it cannot. With the 2026 midterms approaching, the Department of Justice is no longer arguing law. It is preparing a pretext.
The Trump Justice Department has unilaterally declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. The move is less a legal argument than a confession — that this presidency intends to leave no paper trail, no accountability, and no successor able to understand what was done in the people's name.
A 13-month FDA tenure ends in moral resignation. A White House overrides its own commissioner to deliver a $6 billion gift to its donors. And the country's nicotine policy is now written, in plain sight, by the men the president once called "my tobacco guys."
The Congressional Budget Office now projects Medicare's Hospital Insurance trust fund will run dry in 2040 — a dozen years sooner than scorekeepers estimated just last March. The shortfall did not come from demographics. It came from a president, a bill, and a set of priorities so detached from working America that they amount to a constitutional warning.
A new report from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics confirms what voters already feel: the 2026 battlefield was not won at the ballot box. It was drafted in statehouses under presidential pressure, ratified by a Supreme Court that hollowed out the Voting Rights Act, and engineered to insulate a failing administration from democratic accountability.
A $2 billion deal with an Abu Dhabi sovereign fund. A pardon for a money-laundering convict. A secret 49% sale four days before inauguration. And now a lawsuit between the company and its largest investor. The Trump family crypto venture is not a fringe scandal — it is the operating system of this administration.
For 99 years, federal law has barred unlicensed Americans from putting concealable handguns in the mail. The Trump administration wants that to end — not by an act of Congress, but by an opinion drafted inside its own Justice Department.
After Donald Trump's retaliatory rage stripped the U.S. military presence from Spain and dissolved a billion-dollar arms deal, Madrid turned to Ankara for its next generation of fighter jets. The consequences for American workers, NATO's cohesion, and the republic's democratic stability are only beginning to register.
A landmark CNN investigation and a satellite-imagery analysis by The Washington Post have confirmed what the administration fought to keep hidden: the majority of U.S. military installations in the Middle East have been damaged or destroyed, hundreds of structures lie in ruin, and the American people were deliberately kept in the dark.
In suing the nation's paper of record for alleged discrimination against a white male employee, the Trump administration has not discovered a civil rights victim — it has manufactured a weapon. This is what the collapse of institutional leadership looks like in real time.