donald trump The US president should step down, a former lawyer says, citing what he believes is a serious deterioration in Trump’s mental condition. The comments fueled calls in Washington to invoke the 25th Amendment.
Ty Cobb, who worked on Trump’s legal team from July 2017 to May 2018, told I News that during his first term, there were people within the administration who would push back on the president’s extreme ideas and warn him when policies were unwise or illegal. But in his second term, Cobb said, Trump has surrounded himself with people who are afraid to challenge him.
according to MirrorCobb also thinks trump card Showing signs of “frontal lobe decline” and “possible dementia.” He believes that Trump’s long-standing narcissism has become more serious as a result. “Narcissism has always been a problem for him, but in the absence of the impulse control provided by the frontal lobes, it comes out violently, which is why we see revenge, corruption, delusions of grandeur, and [alleged] Abuse of power,” he said.
He further warned that Trump was acting like a virtual “dictator” who was undermining American democracy. Cobb added: “No president has ever announced at 4 a.m. that he would commit a war crime, and no president has ever danced on the grave of a decorated public servant like Mueller.” Referring to Trump’s late-night social media outbursts, he said: “At this stage, we are ruled by a madman, there is no other way to describe it.”
Why are calls to invoke the 25th Amendment growing?
The 25th Amendment, introduced in 1963 after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, sets out what happens if a sitting president is unable to carry out his duties properly. Section 4 of the Amendment specifically allows a majority of the top officials in the executive branch or an agency created by Congress to remove the president.
There is growing support for the use of this amendment. Last month, House Judiciary Committee Democratic leader Jamie Raskin proposed forming a committee to work with Vice President Vance to remove Trump from office. “Public trust in Donald Trump’s ability to carry out his duties has reached an all-time low as he threatens to destroy entire civilizations, sow chaos in the Middle East while violating Congress’s war powers, grossly insulting the Pope of the Catholic Church, and posting artistic renderings online comparing himself to Jesus Christ,” Raskin said in a statement.
He added: “We are on a dangerous precipice and it is now a matter of national security for Congress to fulfill its 25th Amendment responsibility to protect the American people from an increasingly volatile and unstable situation.”
In addition, in early April, one of Trump’s most famous allies and former “MAGA” congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene also sharply criticized the president. Write on X, “The 25th Amendment!!! Not a single bomb fell on America. We can’t kill an entire civilization. This is evil and insane.” Greene also accused Trump of betraying the voters who brought him back to the White House, writing, “It’s always a lie and always America last. But this time it feels like the worst kind of betrayal because it comes from people and governments we all think are different, but he won’t say anything more.”
Other Democratic lawmakers also spoke about this. Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton write on X“This is not normal. This is not just ‘Trump being Trump.'” This is a lunatic unfit for public office and needs to be removed immediately. “
How did the White House respond?
A 2024 New York Times report said Trump’s public speeches have become “darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly focused on the past,” according to the Mirror.
The White House dismissed those concerns. Spokesman David Ingler defended the president, praising his “sharpness, unparalleled energy and historic approachability,” according to the Mirror.
