The Evidence
Continuing Reasons why the 25th Amendment is still center stage in a failing presidency.
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.
J.D. Vance's ascent to the vice presidency runs through Peter Thiel — and Peter Thiel's finances ran, in part, through Jeffrey Epstein. As the Trump administration buries, deflects, and manipulates the Epstein files, a pattern of willful blindness reveals a White House that governs not for the American people, but for its billionaire patrons.
While nearly four out of five Gazans face acute hunger, the Trump administration is planning a 350-acre military base and celebrating a deal to build a soccer stadium. The dissonance of this presidency has never been more stark — and Congress is beginning to name it.
On May 4, 2026, more than forty world leaders gathered in Armenia to reaffirm multilateralism, the rule of law, and collective security — pointedly without the United States. The same week, Donald Trump blindsided NATO allies with an impulsive troop withdrawal from Germany and threatened to deepen it further, while over 70 lawmakers at home demanded a reckoning with his fitness to serve. The question the Yerevan summit posed to America is one the Constitution already has an answer for.
ACA benchmark premiums have surged by more than 21 percent for 2026 — the sharpest spike in nearly a decade — as millions lose coverage and struggle to afford basic medical care. This is not a market anomaly. It is the deliberate consequence of policy choices made by a president whose behavior raises urgent constitutional questions about his fitness to govern.