IN INCREASED FAVOR OF INVOKING THE 25TH AMENDMENT

EACH DAY BRINGS MORE EVIDENCE that any freely rational human being would recognize the mental incompetence of Donald J. Trump. Recently, we’ve seen his irrational and obscene Easter Message, his immoral and likely illegal attack on Iran, his bumbling responses concerning the war’s cessation, his utterly unhinged posting of an A.I. Trump/Christ image, and then, after taking it down, his absurd justification of the posting’s existence. 

The President’s Cabinet. One would assume a president receives advice from intelligent people of all sorts: specialists in national economics, international affairs, judicial, legislative, and military matters, even in history and other educational aspects. This, of course, is the function of a president’s cabinet. 

Image from NC Newsline. 

The Constitution’s Twenty-Fifth Amendment. And this is why Section 4 of the Constitution’s 25th Amendment specifically gives “principal officers of the executive department” the heady responsibility of identifying whether “the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” It also describes, “Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue….”

Easter morning, 5:03 a.m., April 5, 2026.

The Easter Missive. As an evidential bit of irrationality, were an addled family member to act in such a manner, a responsible loved one would seek help. That this Easter message received 88.4k “likes” is yet another distressful aspect. 

At least, though, someone has educated Trump about the differences among the words “strait,” “straits,” and “straight.”

How Many Stone Ages? Even Pete Hegseth and the Al Jazeera news network corrected Trump’s “… we’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.” Both Al Jazeera’s title “ ‘Bomb Back to the Stone Age’: U.S. History of Threats and Carpet Bombing,” and Hegseth’s doubling down chose a singular Stone Age, parallel to the terms Bronze Age and Iron Age.

Not to nitpick, but historians do divide the Stone Age into the Paleolithic (Greek: παλαιός, palaios, “old”; and λίθος, lithos, “stone”); Mesolithic (μέσος, mesos, ‘middle’); and Neolithic (νέος, néos, ‘new’). Do you suppose Trump knew this and thus employed the plural?

Now you tell one.

Other Truth Social Missives. Trump (or some ghost-texter?) has produced psychotic missives unbecoming a statesman (or whatever noun one might choose for Trump’s presidential stance). Max Rego reports, “Hillary Clinton Says Trump ‘Fully Unhinged,” Vance-led Iran Talks ‘A Joke,’ ” The Hill, April 13, 2026: “Speaking to hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MS NOW’s ‘Morning Joe,’ the former first lady and senator said Trump should be held ‘accountable’ for his words, not just his actions.”

Rego continues, “Then, on Orthodox Easter Sunday, he posted a lengthy rant about Pope Leo XIV and shared an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ—the latter of which appears to have been deleted from his account.”

A screenshot of the post on Trump’s Truth Social account. Gee, only 9.16k “likes.”

Another Doubling Down (Absurdly). Katie Rogers reports, “Trump Posted a Picture of Himself as Jesus. Now He’s Trying to Explain It Away,” The New York Times, April 13, 2026: “The image,” observes Rogers, “showed President Trump in a white and red robe, commonly used in renderings of Jesus Christ and in Scripture prophesying his return. Bright golden light, which is used to depict divine intervention in religious imagery, radiated from Mr. Trump’s hand as he touched the forehead of a sick man. A woman observed the scene with her hands steepled in prayer.”

Rogers continues, “As he received two bags of a McDonald’s food delivery to the Oval Office on Monday morning, Mr. Trump told reporters that he did not catch all that religious imagery. He said he had thought the image he had posted to his Truth Social account had depicted him not as Jesus—but as a physician.”

Oh come on, Don. How stupid do you think reporters are?? Or how ill-advised are you?? 

Or How Stupid/Conned/Intimidated Are His Advisors and Supporters? A distressing aspect of all this presidential incoherence is the apparent acquiescence of Trump’s advisors and supporters. Are they so intimidated, so cowed, so extorted under his control?

Maybe sooner or later, a sufficient number of them will say “Enough is enough.” Look to the end of the Nixon era as a paradigm. ds 

© Dennis Simanaitis, SimanaitisSays.com, 2026