"There’s little question that the 25th Amendment provides a mechanism whereby the vice president and Cabinet can declare a president incapacitated—whether physically or mentally. But strictly speaking, the amendment’s framers seemed to anticipate that such incapacitation would come in the form of a natural or man-made event—an assassination attempt, a fall, a natural degeneration of health. They didn’t expressly foresee a future in which the American electorate would install in the White House someone already unfit to serve.
Put another way, Donald Trump has not—to the best of our knowledge—suffered a stroke or blow to the head since the 2016 election. He is who he is, and he has been like this for a very long time.
Yes, some of Wolff’s reporting comes as a surprise—like the fact that even close aides doubt Trump’s mental acuity, or that the president allegedly didn’t recognize a series of old friends at Mar-a-Lago last month. But we already knew that Trump can’t stay on point, that he’s inattentive to detail and belligerent in the extreme, that he repeats himself and that he has a troubled relationship with the truth: Long before he purported to believe that Barack Obama “tapped” his phones, he believed Obama had fabricated his birth certificate. And it’s fairly clear that he is a narcissist of the first order—a man who claims credit for things that he didn’t do, who insists he is a “genius,” and who defaults on financial and family obligations with casual disregard for nearly everyone around him."
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/10/25th-amendment-trump-216267?lo=ap_d1
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