The Evidence
Continuing Reasons why the 25th Amendment is still center stage in a failing presidency.
Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies surged 46% in 2025 — a third consecutive annual increase — with the Midwest leading the collapse at 70% higher than the year before. Behind the data is a deliberate policy landscape of tariff warfare, agency demolition, and willful neglect that reveals not a governing president, but a wrecking ball with a MAGA hat.
April's Producer Price Index posted its largest annual jump in nearly four years. Real wages went negative. The president said he doesn't "think about" Americans' finances. And in the same week, his party tried to slip $1 billion in taxpayer money toward his White House ballroom.
When the United Arab Emirates announced it was quitting OPEC on the same week that gas prices hit a four-year national high and more than seventy lawmakers called for the President's removal, something more than an energy market story was being written. It was a portrait of a presidency in collapse — and an American family at the pump, paying the bill.
When the Federal Communications Commission threatened ABC's broadcast licenses because a comedian made a joke about Melania Trump, it did not merely cross a constitutional line — it drew a map of the administration's psychology, its priorities, and the accelerating deterioration of democratic norms at the highest level of American government.
The second indictment of former FBI Director James Comey — over a photograph of shells on a beach — is not an act of law enforcement. It is a confession: of a presidency so consumed by personal grievance that it will sacrifice the First Amendment, the independence of the Justice Department, and the credibility of federal law on the altar of revenge. This is what institutional decay looks like from the inside.
For the second time this year, a federal court has ruled President Trump's signature economic policy unlawful. For the second time, the president has shrugged. The pattern — illegal action, judicial rebuke, public defiance — is no longer policy disagreement. It is something else.
The president announced a military escort mission through the Strait of Hormuz via social media — without notifying Gulf allies. Saudi Arabia pulled the plug within hours. What followed was a masterclass in the dangers of impulsive, uncoordinated leadership at the highest levels of American power.
In a 90-minute call Russia initiated, Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that any resumed military action against Iran would be "dangerous and unacceptable." The President of the United States — who launched the war — called it a "very good conversation." What unfolded next raises questions that the 25th Amendment was written to answer.
Consumer prices rose 3.8 percent in April — the steepest year-over-year jump since 2023 — while real hourly wages fell. The cause is not a mystery, and the man responsible is not paying attention.
When Donald Trump invoked wartime law to shield Roundup's maker from cancer lawsuits — and sent his Solicitor General to argue Bayer's case at the Supreme Court — he did not merely betray a movement. He revealed what his presidency has always been: a vehicle for corporate power dressed in the language of patriotism and public health.