The Evidence

In a historic and escalating series of official actions, Democratic lawmakers have formally demanded cognitive testing, launched investigations, briefed colleagues on the 25th Amendment, and written directly to the Vice President — arguing that the 79-year-old president's deteriorating behavior represents a constitutional emergency, not a political dispute.

There is a particular kind of dissonance that defines the second Trump administration — a presidency unfolding against a backdrop of war threats, economic anxiety, and democratic erosion, while its chief executive obsesses over cherubs, gold leaf, and the size of his arch.

A president who posts graphic murder videos, threatens civilizations in expletive-laden Easter posts, obsesses over a Nobel Prize while at war, and agonizes over ballroom décor while gas prices spike is not exhibiting the behavior of someone discharging the powers and duties of the presidency. He is exhibiting the behavior of someone who should not have access to nuclear weapons. The 25th Amendment exists precisely for this. The question is not whether the case exists. The question is whether anyone in the Republican Party still has the courage to read the Constitution they swore to uphold.

Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his "State of the World" speech, Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre to a closed-door Pentagon meeting and declared that "The United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side." [The New Republic]

The 25th Amendment Push: More than 85 House Democrats had called for Trump to be impeached or removed via the 25th Amendment as of Tuesday evening. Notably, former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and right-wing commentator Candace Owens also called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, while Tucker Carlson criticized Trump like never before on his show.