Trump: peak crazy old man energy
Trump, aka the Turd in the Whitehouse, effectively committed political suicide today after he posted a message on Truth Social gloating over the murder of director Rob Reiner and his wife by their son who has drug addiction issues.
The message on Truth Social read:
"A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before May Rob and Michele rest in peace."
To be clear, this is the President of the United States taking time out of his not-so-busy day to gloat over the tragic murder of a US citizen and his wife, while also trying to make the whole thing about what a "great President" he is. Meanwhile this nutcase has his finger on the nuclear button.
This incident is extremely bad for Trump for a several reasons. Firstly, his popularity has been in a steep decline for a long time, and almost all independents now hate him. Secondly, his support even among his MAGA base is much softer than it was, with MAGA diehards, like Marjorie Taylor Greene and others, turning against him recently. Thirdly, elected Republicans are increasingly conscious of the severe damage that being associated with a major shit stain like Trump will do to them at their next election.
And, finally, the message raises concerns not just about Trump's total moral vacuity, which has been known for a long time (and priced into the political popularity market), but, more worryingly, about his mental acuity and judgment. In other words, a message like this, in its psychopathic stupidity, gross narcissism, and lack of even reptilian empathy, denotes someone whose brain is, like a piece of Swiss cheese, riddled with holes.
The evident mental illness of the President also provides Republicans with a convenient way to disassociate themselves from him and oust him, something they will feel increasingly motivated to do by his snowballing unpopularity.
Removing a sitting President would involve invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows for the involuntary transfer of power if the President is deemed "unable to discharge the powers and duties" of the office. This explicitly includes mental incapacity, further defined as "severe mental debility, dementia, or other conditions preventing rational decision-making."
The actual mechanism by which this would happen would require a majority of Trump's Cabinet to transmit a written declaration to Congress that the President is unable to function. This would give the Vice President the powers of Acting President. If the President contested this, Congress would then be required to pass a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate to sustain the declaration; otherwise the President would resume his powers.
The trickiest part is clearly the Vice President and the Cabinet, who are all Trump's creatures. But once this Rubicon is crossed, it is almost certain that Congress will ratify the process.
Although this scenario may still seem unlikely to many, all the incentives are there to remove him. Vice President Vance stands to gain the most, while many in the Cabinet must be painfully aware that Trump is dragging the Party in the mud, not only with his increasingly unstable behaviour but also with his unlimited corruption.
It is also clear that any moves behind closed doors to get Trump to modify and moderate his erratic behaviour, assuming they have even been made, have simply not worked. Any further attempts along these lines would likely lead Trump to fire anyone making them. In short, this is someone who can't be reasoned with, even by his own cabinet of servile, corrupt sycophants.
We are now in uncharted territory, but the path to the 25th Amendment is now clearer than ever.
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.
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