The Evidence
Continuing Reasons why the 25th Amendment is still center stage in a failing presidency.
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.
Donald Trump's June 2 executive order on artificial intelligence is not a plan. It is a course correction without an apology — a quiet admission that the man who repealed Biden's AI safeguards on his first day in office spent eighteen months getting it wrong. And the people who pay for that lost time are not in the Oval Office.
A ProPublica investigation traces a record-breaking Pentagon loan back to a single phone call from Peter Navarro — and to a venture firm where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner. Behind the rare-earth jargon lies a familiar story: a president whose office has become a profit center, and a constitutional system being asked, once again, whether it still knows how to say no.
From toddlers to veterans, the Trump administration has assembled the broadest federal assault on transgender Americans in modern history — defying medical consensus, the courts, and the most basic test of fitness any president must meet: the capacity to govern for the people, not against them.
Donald Trump promised the Board of Peace would be among the most consequential institutions on earth. Four months on, its official Gaza fund holds nothing, the money that did move went into an account no one can audit, and America's closest allies have walked away. The question is no longer whether the project failed — it is what that failure reveals about the man at its head.