The Evidence
Continuing Reasons why the 25th Amendment is still center stage in a failing presidency.
Canada retaliated Tuesday with $20 billion in tariffs on U.S. goods — steel, appliances, farm equipment, food, wood — and doubled the levy on American metals to 50 percent. The bill for Trump's swagger will land on kitchen tables, construction sites, and factory floors from Maine to Michigan. It will not leave for a generation.
Beijing formally refused. Seoul is turning east. Europe closed its airspace. On the day the Treasury Department unveiled what it called the toughest sanctions in history, the world showed exactly what six months of Trumpian diplomacy has purchased for the United States: an audience of one, and a bill no one else will pay.
The Trump administration fired the editor, publisher, and top Middle East reporter of Stars and Stripes for defending the paper's 165-year tradition of editorial independence. What Pete Hegseth is trying to hide — and what the firings reveal about a commander in chief unraveling in real time.
A 300,000-metric-ton flood of foreign beef. A 25 percent below-market price. A president who won't say where any of it is coming from — or who agreed to sell it. The ranchers who voted for him are furious. The Constitution provides a remedy for leadership this reckless.
Nearly two years after the 2024 election, the Intelligence Community's mandated public assessment of foreign meddling remains hidden. The statute — signed by Donald Trump himself in December 2019 — required release within sixty days. With the 2026 midterms less than a hundred days away, a second required report on threats to the coming election is also missing. Congress is being kept in the dark. So are we.
The Canadian prime minister called the tariffs an economic attack, ordered his negotiators home, and pledged dollar-for-dollar retaliation. The president responded by insulting Canada’s sovereignty. What broke down was not merely a trade deal — it was the credibility of American leadership.
Two federal judges have called Executive Order 14399 unconstitutional. The Justice Department won't even defend its constitutionality. And yet, on a Friday night in August, the U.S. Postal Service quietly published the final rule anyway — arming the Supreme Court to switch it on the moment the injunctions fall.
A 6-year-old at the fridge, hoping food would appear. This is what America now does to its children.
More than a million children have been thrown off food assistance since Donald Trump signed the largest cut to SNAP in history — a cut that paid for a $2.3 trillion tax windfall for the richest households in the country. The bill has come due, and children are paying it.
Natalie Harp sits ten feet from the president, curates the information he sees, and — until recently — worked in that role without ever seeking a security clearance. Her newly published letters, and the concerns of Secret Service, biographers, and even her own brother, describe something the White House refuses to name: a serious governance and national-security crisis hiding in plain sight.
While Russia builds ten secret drone bases within range of Warsaw and China unveils motherships that can birth swarms of a hundred loitering munitions at a time, the acting chief of the U.S. Army has decided the answer is parachutes. This is what happens when loyalty replaces competence at the top of the Pentagon.
The debt has doubled in less than a decade. The Treasury just doubled its emergency bond-buying to keep the long end of the market from breaking. And the president wants to build a $900 million ballroom and a 250-foot arch — to himself — while telling Americans he cannot afford their Medicaid, their day care, or their Medicare.
The president has declared the Strait of Hormuz "New U.S. Territory" from his phone, threatened to bomb a decades-old ally over the same strip of water, and reversed himself twice in a fortnight on whether Iran talks even exist. What remains of American statecraft is being conducted by post — and the country, and the world, are paying the bill.
For seven months, Trump's FCC chairman has publicly threatened, quietly extorted, and openly celebrated the punishment of broadcasters who annoyed the president. On Tuesday, one of them finally said the word out loud in federal court: retaliation.
The president threatened a longtime U.S. partner from a Fox News phone interview. Congress is drafting war-powers resolutions. Iran is setting its own timetable. And on the day before it all detonated, Donald Trump was on a golf course in New Jersey.
As the last U.S. aircraft carrier leaves the western Pacific and Xi Jinping openly courts the Global South as the stable alternative to American power, Donald Trump is preoccupied with a ballroom, a triumphal arch, and a war he cannot end. The abandonment is not theoretical. It is happening now — in the Sea of Japan, in the Strait of Hormuz, and in the ruined East Wing of the White House.