The 25th Amendment Watch List, Sixteenth Edition: The Addled.

May 12, 2026

Drugs coming by sea, by ocean, by water. A lot of people say, What do you mean by sea? Is it see? Like vision? No, it’s sea. SEA.

Donald Trump on the maritime transportation of illegal drugs.  Absolutely nobody was confused on this topic, maybe other than Trump.

We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail.

Ummm. . . 

We're building a beautiful ballroom. I'm very good at ballrooms.

The ballroom, which will either never be built or will be ripped down, is a Trump obsession.

A new name I came up  -- dumbocrat. I think that could be a good one. I've come up with some extraordinary names. But I was talking about Hakeem Jeffries. He's a low IQ person. He's a dumb guy.

Trump has an obsession on intelligence like only a man who isn't intelligent can have.

Without you, we have Somalia. A fine place where we have a congresswoman who brilliantly came over to the country by marrying her brother. That was the first law she broke. She comes from a country where they have nothing but crime, bedlam, filth. Elan Omar.

Ilhan Omar  has been married three times, and none of her husbands were her brother.

This accusation taps into the deeply racist nature of a lot of MAGA in particular and the American far right in general. This has laid under the surface following the 1960s for years, but it resurfaced with the rise of Barack Obama which caused this demographic to flip out.  Trump tapped into it early with his clams that Obama, who was born in Hawaii, was born in Kenya.

Funny thing here is that Obama and Trump share a common item here in that both of them were born to a couple in which one of them was an immigrant.  In Trump's case, however, the immigrant was a white Christian, as opposed to Obama's. This item here really shows something that's deeply ingrained in the MAGA movement.  It really doesn't like anyone who isn't white and it really doesn't like anyone who isn't culturally Christian.

Otherwise, it's perfectly okay with people like Trump, who marry foreign women of a certain appearance and then divorce them later on, and whose Christianity is a variant of it that doesn't really require any actual effort or adherence to the Gospel.

The people that did it -- these people did not work for me. They said they work for me. They come from a different part of the country. But they were good. The people that worked for me recommended it and they recommend we do it this way. But I recommended it to them because I'm very good at construction.

Tide D Bowl.

No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba, which is a failed country and only heading in one direction - down! Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk!!! In the meantime, I’m off to China! President DJT

Donald Trump.

We'll address the super creepy "Trump babies" in another thread.

A note here.  Trump's 18 month mark will be July 20, 2026.  If I'm right, we're now in the final phases of his administration as he'll be removed by the 25th Amendment by then.

May 13, 2026

Trump, who came to office principally because he promised to deport the 10M to 12M illegal aliens in the US, most of whom are Hispanic, now wants to annex Venezuela, with a population of 31M, and make it a state.

Let's not pretend he's joking, he isn't.

The population of the US is currently 20% Hispanic.  Annexation of Venezuela and making its citizens US citizens would convert the country to being a 30% Hispanic country overnight.  MAGA has a strongly nativist anti Hispanic bias.  It'll amusing how they bend that to supporting this, but they will.

The entire thing is amusing about King Donny.  He's so dim that all he ever thinks about is the cash value of something, and Venezuela has oil.  He apparently doesn't realize that Venezuela, which is a large country which would probably come in as more than one state if it did, is also a Socialist one.  The Republican Party would be effectively dead, and the US would be far more left wing than it currently is.

This won't happen, as it would require the cooperation of Congress.  At least I don't think it would.  But the fact that MAGA will support this just shows how dim that movement is.

MAGA politicians, including Harriet Hageman and John Sycophant Barrasso, should be quizzed on this, and don't let them weasel out of answering or tell you its a joke.  It isn't.

On issues closer to home:

Wyoming Cattle Ranchers Worried Over Trump Proposal To Lower Tariffs On Beef Imports

Farmers and ranches who supported Trump were reading something into him that just isn't there and will regret it.

May 14, 2026

This item raises some really good and interesting points.

Bare minimum, as the wheels come off the Trump administration he's getting increasingly erratic.  Richardson proposes some darker motives, but even if there not there, there appears to be a dedicated effort to say things now to distract as things get worse and worse.

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Ballroom Batshit. A demented president goes full bonkers. The 25th Amendment Watch List Fifteenth Edition and Court Watch Part VI.

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Friday, April 30, 1976. The end of the Greek Language Question.

The Greek Parliament decided that the official language of Greece would be Demotic Greek, "Demotiki", the modern colloquial form of the Greek language, rather than "Katharevousa" an updated version of Ancient Greek.  The latter had been the official form.

The Greek language question (γλωσσικό ζήτημα) had been going on since the 19th Century.

The British fishing trawler Arctic Corsair rammed the Icelandic Coat Guard vessel ICGV Óðinn.

The ship continued to serve until 2006, and appears as a US vessel in Flags of our Fathers.  It's presently a museum ship.

Muhammed Ali barely clung on to his heavyweight title in a fight against Jimmy Young in Landover, Maryland.

Both boxers health declined enormously after their boxing careers, due to their boxing careers.  Young died at age 56.

Last edition:

Sunday, April 25, 1976. Saving the flag.

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The 25th Amendment Watch List. A Fourteenth and Special edition. Attacking the Catholic Church.

April 13, 2026.

The number of Catholics in the world:  Over 1,422,000,000, with the number growing.

The number of Catholics in the United States: Between 50,000,000 and 70,000,000, with the number growing.

The number of Orthodox in the world 260,000,000

The number of Orthodox Christians in the United States:  2,600,000.

The number of Protestants in the world:  600,000,000 to 1,000,000,000.

The number of Protestants in the United States  140,000,000 to 150,000,000, of which 10 to 15% are mainline protestants, and of which the largest denomination is the American Baptist Conference, which includes 13,000,000 to 15,000,000 members.

The Catholic Church, all rites (the Roman Rite is the largest by far) is the largest single church in the world and the largest single church in the United States, in spite of the United States being a protestant nation.

The second largest church in the world are the Orthodox, meaning that the Apostolic Churches, those which go all the way back to the Apostles, far exceed the number of Protestants.

While all churches have their problems, the Catholic church is growing everywhere.  Protestant churches are dying.

And then we get this:

Trump posted those back to back  yesterday.  There's been all sorts of rumors circulating that the administration has been upset with the Church.

No doubt it isn't a fan of the Church. The Church has God as its King.  Maga has Donald as its.

Throughout Trump's presidency, the first legitimate one and the illegitimate second one, I've warned that support of Trump would likely kill off far right Evangelism in the US.  I've also warned that those far right Evangelicals who support Trumpwould turn on Catholicism, which they don't understand and often don't even think to be a Christian religion, when in fact it's the original Christian religion.  And I've failed to grasp how any thinking Catholic could really support Trump with any depth.

But some have.  I know plenty.

Some are just shallow political thinkers, others not, and all are conservative.  I'm conservative, but I've never supported Trump.

These people are opposed to abortion (so am I), and were horrified by transgenderism (so am I).  That frankly is just about it.  Some buy in to the other hardcore aspects of the far right as well, being opposed to immigration, for instance, which actually requires a more nuanced thought process than they are giving it.  And the Democrats made it impossible for Catholics to really support them, becoming the party of death and weirdness.

None of which meant that anyone had to support a dim, narcissistic, serial polygamist.

For those of you who supported Trump on social issues, there were and are other parties.  And how much do we know about Trump and any of the positions he supposedly supports.  He own track record on moral issues is poor at least in so far as his treatment of women is concerned.  And we're talking about adult women.  This administration outright opposition to releasing the Epstein files certainly raises questions about it being willing to support child rapists, and there's enough smoke around Trump to at least raise questions about how far in the shallow end of the pool he may have been willing to go, although nothing's been proven.  His family's financial dealings this term certainly raise questions of a moral nature.  His launching of an illegal war and threatening mass civilian deaths is criminal.

We could go on.  He's a horrible, demented, man.  Christians who are supporting him need to rethink it immediately.

Catholics supporting him have helped bring us to this.

From here on out there's no excuse for a free pass by members of the Apostolic Faiths.  None.  And that includes the two members in the administration, Marco Rubio and J. D. Vance.  Supporting Trump is supporting this mockery of the Faith and of all Christianity.

But for the voters too.  In the midterms there are already candidates who note they are "endorsed by Donald Trump".  One Catholic candidate here in the state hardcore embraces Trump and another runs, on all of her signs, "Endorsed by Donald Trump".

That needs to end right now.  

The 25th Amendment needs to be applied, now.  Catholics cozying up to Trump need to stop, now.  

Cont:

Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus?

Trump: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to do with red cross as a red cross worker

Donald Trump.

If that's what he's thought, it's because he's demented.

That being what he thought is rather difficult to believe.  What's more believable is that he's worried American Catholics are now waking up, if they were not already awake, to what a terrible person he is.

April 16, 2026

We'll probably close this one out and start a new one, but this story is still playing out.

Something that should be really obvious, but MAGA just won't accept, is that Donald Trump is insane.  Of course, accepting that a leader who they loved is nuts would mean that some of what they're supporting is nuts.  Nobody wants to acknowledge that, but it needs to occur now.

We're in really dangerous territory.

Trump Rage at Pope Darkens as Ex-Allies Warn of Worsening Mental State

As Trump’s own ex-supporters start sounding the alarm about his mental state, a former top Trump official explains why the president’s madness is now badly messing with ordinary Americans’ everyday lives.

That's from The New Republic, which those with the real Trump Derangement Syndrome, the one that keeps a supporter from acknowledging that he's gone insane no matter what he does, will disregard.  But these warnings aren't in isolation by any means.

Here's one from the National Catholic Reporter:

Trump is detached from reality. The 25th Amendment exists for this moment

For the reporter to call for the 25th Amendment to be invoked is pretty extraordinary, but again those with the real TDS will just say, well, that's because he insulted the Pope.  Indeed, American Catholics in the political far right are already busy dissing Pope Leo XIV as some sort of flaming left winger, which is patently absurd.

Well, here's one from Jewish bonafide somewhat left winger Robert Reich:

He is Seriously, Frighteningly, Utterly, and Completely Losing His Mind

We are in great danger

The man is going insane.  We're in some sort of a race now to see if his cabinet can screw up its courage or finally do something so patently nuts that it can't be denied.  What that is, at this point, is almost too horrific to imagine.

What seems clear, for those who bother to observe, is that the U.S. is going to invade Cuba, unless the military puts a stop to it.  Nobody in the Administration seems ready to stop it.  We're basically starving the country to death, for no reason, right now, other than its a vengeful project supported by Cuban Americans.  The chances that we revive Trump's lust for Greenland at some point, and committing forces to satiate it aren't beyond possibility.  Maybe one of those two acts causes somebody to say "no".

Or maybe it'll be the war against Iran.  We seem to have wondered into a war that has no way out and the stress it's causing Trump is rapidly wiping out what mental faculties he had left.  The thought that Iran may win, and it may, is terrifying for him.  It's also destroying the political chances of J. D. Vance, which Vance likely knows, and which gives Vance, who opposed the war, the chance to be Brutus to Trump's Caesar.  Still, Trump launching an act of absolute barbarity to try to force Iran to surrender, which would fail, isn't beyond possibility either.

Or maybe it'll be something benign.  He says something he can't retract about something abhorrent, or walks out in the paved rose garden sans clothes, or forgets who the first lady is.

Or maybe we wake up one day having deployed nuclear weapons with MAGA wondering, for the most part, how we got there, and with some supporting it as they must or must wakeup.

We're in dangerous territory.

I'd predicted when we started this series that Trump's second term would last 18 months, from January 2025 to June 2026.  We're rolling right up on that.  What is clear at this point is that in November the Democratic Party is going to resume control of the House and the Senate.  At that point Trump's ability to reign like a dictator will end.  Knowing that, if he is still in office, he'll do everything possible to disrupt the 2026 election and steal it..  People like Chuck Gray will help him in that attempt, and are already helping him.  It probably won't work.  If he goes too far, it'll result in mass violence.

The fact that he'll try it, and that it will become increasingly obvious that he's doing to try it as we move towards November, will mean that there will be a fair chance that if Trump is still in office after November, he'll face impeachment and be removed in 2027.  Because of that, there's also an increased chance that if my original timeline was off, the 25th Amendment will be invoked then.  An impeachment of Trump, at this point might very well be followed by an impeachment of Vance, who will not want to face that.

Hitler didn't resign rather than take Germany into defeat.  Comparing Trump to Hitler is something even his opponents hate to have done, but he has a very similar mindset in certain ways.  Hitler was democratically elected and co opted the state as well, and believed manically in himself.  Trump is like that.  Stress and drugs eroded Hitler's mind, as well as the burden of evil.  Trump came into office in his first time an obviously mentally unstable person and it's grown worse.  He's never been a person who is personally admirable.

The longer this goes on, the worse it will become.

April 21, 2026

Donald Trump is losing his mind

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Trump Is Underwater, Under Stress, and There’s No Coming Back

 

Downfall. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Thirteenth Edition. The MAGA Cannibal.

 April 9, 2026

Trump has entered a new phase of is insanity, one characteristic of the insane, and insane revolutions.

He's eating his own.

Make no mistake, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelley, Candace Owens and Alex Jones deserve no sympathy.  But their Trump's little lap dogs.  The fact that he's attacking his own is profound.  Trump has very few friends, and he's going after them.  There are fewer and fewer people in the bunker.

We might actually be on the very cusp of the 25th Amendment being applied.

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Downfall. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Twelfth Edition. He's insane, we all know it, and he's in power. This will get much, much, worse.

Richard Nixon and Donald Trump.  One man worried his cabinet who planned around a possible mental collapse that didn't come, the other is having a mental collapse and his cabinet is doing nothing.

We later learned that in 1973 as Nixon came under increased pressure due to Watergate, his aids feared he would do something rash.  Nixon was reacting badly under the stress.  He was lashing out.  He was drinking heavily.

Of course, in the end, he resigned.

Donald Trump, who like Hitler doesn't drink, is visibly collapsing before our eyes.  He's obviously been in a state of mental decline for a decade now, and its increasing.  He was heavily impaired when elected, making any rational person wonder why he was elected to the office, other than that people the weird insurrectionist feared that Joe Biden's dementia was too advanced to allow for him to hold office again, something that history should not forgive Biden for.  Even that doesn't really explain it, as Harris was the alternative in the end, for people who play along with the two party system nightmare that actually doesn't have to exist.

A major difference between late stage Nixon and late stage Trump, other than that Nixon was not insane (a major difference) is that Nixon was surrounded by sane, if not always admirable, advisors.  Trump is surrounded by sycophants.

That's a huge difference as we now know that Nixon's advisors consulted amongst themselves about his mental state. They were worried about it.  None of them were as deeply loyal to Nixon at all costs as Trump's sycophantic advisors are to him.

Many, including me, have wondered how it is that Trump's cabinet hasn't acted to replace him.  Heather Cox Richardson, in one of her video shorts, has provided the answer.  The people surrounding Trump have nowhere else to go.

In Trump's first administration his cabinet included sane people.  Trump didn't know how to take office and in fact his natural laziness kept him from really ever fully forming a government.  That natural laziness came into effect when he was elected a second time.  He was kept from acting like a king in his first term as his advisor wouldn't let him, and he didn't like that.  In his second term he wanted people who would slavishly do what he wanted without question, and he got them almost exclusively.

If you look at the current cabinet you can see that, with perhaps two or three exceptions, it's wholly made up of people for whom Trump is their only chance. Some may be rich, but wealth is credited much more than it should be as allowing for intellectual independence.  People lavish praise on Trump not because they believe it, but because they are his willing concubines and have prostituted themselves to him.  Some of these people are outright dim.  Some have just sold their souls and know that when Trump falls, they fall with him, as Richardson has noted.

Why these people are in this position is another matter.  Some got there as they believe in Trump.  Others were placed their by forces supporting Trump, knowing that he was too lazy to actually do the work to pick competent people.  The Heritage Society, for example, saw Trump as a hollow vessel they could pour their radicalization through.

Trump's cabinet, therefore, is much like Hitler's.  Where was Goebbels going to go?  And Trump's true followers are much like members of the German SS, who fought to the bitter end.  They didn't see a future, literally, in a post war Germany where they figured they'd be killed, if not by the Allies, then by the Germans.  MAGA still shows up like the Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS Charlemagne, the French SS unit that went down fighting in Berlin.  They thought the alternative to that was a bullet in the back of the head.  Real Trump loyalist show up as they fear that if Trump fails, or more likely when he does, they're era is over.  And like the SS in Berlin, they fanatically hope that Der Fuehrer will pull off a miracle, which he won't, or that they'll be saved by some mysterious outside force at the last hour.

That won't happen either.

Many people have wondered how the Germans were so cowed by a leader who was sending them into a disaster.  It can't be said that Americans are.  Only 30% of Americans actually support Trump.  Probably an equal if not larger number outright hate him at this point.  If the election was held today the Republicans would loose both houses, and in November when the election is held, they will.  

But here's the dangerous thing.  Between now and November the leadership of the US is in the bunker and Der Fuehrer is insane.

I've long held that Trump would be removed in 2026 by the 25th Amendment.  I hadn't considered, however, the points Richardson raises.  He still might be but as she notes if Trump goes down, they all go down with him. They're a bunch of cowardly sycophants and they do not appear to be willing to save their country any more than Goebbels was.

Still, even in Hitler's cabinet not everyone was unquestionably loyal towards the end.  Himmler actually serious considered trying to cut a separate deal with the Allies and effectively remove Hitler via a coup.  There was even one SS member in the July 20 plot.  It remains possible, but only barely so, that the cabinet will vote to save itself.

We know that at least a few people in the cabinet likely are willing to do that.  J. D. Vance is one.  Marco Rubio another.  Both of them hope to be President and neither benefits from going down with Trump.  I've long thought they were playing out this string until they could act.  But two men alone won't get it done.  There's likely a few more, but only few. None of the ass kissers in cabinet meetings are amongst them.

Which brings us to this.  Over the next few months things are going to be extremely bad.  Trump's mental state is declining so rapidly it's difficult to gauge.  He's going to pull out of the war he joined with Israel which will be a major defeat he can't disavow.  The economy will not rapidly recover and he can't blame that on Biden.  He's lost the Hispanic vote and he  won't be able to get it back.  The Arab American vote which dimly voted for him is lost as well.  The people who are left in his cabinets who openly support him increasingly look like outright kooks.  The financial flood to his family is not being ignored and is very likely to result in post Trump criminal prosecutions, maybe of Trump himself.

And yesterday, a judge made clear that his obscene bordello on the Potomac addiction to the White House will never happen.

He's a desperate, and demented, man.

Trump, from now to November, will try to steal the November election.  He's already trying.  And he'll do every odd thing imaginable or never imagined to try to deflect attention form his failure.  There will be no limit to what he will try.  Invasions of Cuba and Greenland are possible, with Cuba almost a certainty.  Deals with Russia, or China, or whomever.  Attempts to cancel the election, or seize the polls are probable.  Ignoring the courts a near certainty.

The 25th Amendment should save us from this but might not.  Impeachment of Trump should occur, but will not, unless there's a massive post November shift in Congress.

Instead, expect things to get worse and worse.  And expect the few members of the administration who aren't willing to go down in the bunker to start resigning.  Vance can't, Trump being removed or dying in office is his only hope of being President. Rubio can, and he will, likely before November.

April 6, 2026

Trump's mental status is collapsing.

That post, posted on Easter, read like something a drunk man would post, and frankly but for the fact that we believe Trump doesn't drink, this post would receive that speculation. 

This post has renewed public demands for invocation of the 25th Amendment, and it should.  Trump is insane.  The reference to God in Arabic is insulting to Muslims, the vast majority of whom have nothing to do with Iran or its leadership.

We're committing war crimes under the leadership of a madman.

I'll note I'm not the only one whose concerned.

I'd originally posted that yesterday as a standalone, which I've taken down as I've posted it here.  But what I'll note is that Klungman doesn't say what a lot of us are thinking.  Trump is, in my view, edging up on using an atomic bomb.

In normal times, which these are not, there'd be sufficient people around him to probably put a halt to that. Now there aren't.  The cabinet appears to be nearly complete flunkies.  We'll know this is true if Trump remains in power this week.  The military is being stripped of those who oppose rationality.

We not only live in dangerous times, we live in times in which the most powerful nation on earth is governed by a madman.

At this point anybody running in the fall with an "Endorsed by President Trump" (this means you, Delgenfelder) is absolutely unqualified for office.

By the way, the man whom Evangelicals and some others routinely praise as a great Christian spent the day riding around in Washington DC and visiting one of his golf courses.  No attendance at church.

cont:

Today is a very special day. It's a day where we celebrate Jesus. It's a day where we celebrate religion. It's an honor to be the president. Our country is doing so well. We've broken every record in the stock market. We've broken every record in our military. And what about the rescue?

Donald Trump in an Easter speech.  He's insane.

cont:

If I had my choice, what would I like to do? Take the oil, because it's there for the taking…Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home. If it were up to me, I'd take the oil. I'd keep the oil. I would make plenty of money.

Trump. What a morally bankrupt human being.

cont:

I'm polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela. So after I'm finished with this I can got to Venezuela. I will quickly learn Spanish. It won't take long. I'm good at language. I will go to Venezuela. I'm going to run for president.

Trump again.

There are a pile of these from today.  Trump is bat shit crazy.  Supporting him at this point is criminal, and not invoking the 25th Amendment is as well.  He's completely, utterly, insane.

April 7, 2026

Today we have the news that the insane Donald Trump, in addition to declaring his intention to run for the Presidency of Venezuela (don't discount that with any of the numerous excuses his apologist give for his bat shit crazy statements, we should assume he means it), is defending his statement about keeping Iranian oil on the basis that he's "a businessman" and "to the victors, go the spoils".

Today we're promised a full slate of war crimes.

We offer here a bit of a note.

Often people with a psychotic criminal drive they cannot control hope for intervention.  Trump is so out of control right now there's more than a little reason to believe that he's hoping for the same.  He has no way out, he's lived a life of utter depravity.  The 25th Amendment and hope supervision get him out of the mess he's created, and frankly away from a host of people he probably doesn't like.

Cont:

Even this threat is immoral.  

If carried out, it's murder.

Only the immoral will support a thing like this.  Donald Trump is a deranged monster.

April 9, 2026

Having learned that being a demented madman didn't impress Iran, he's back at it again with Greenland.

This man needs to be removed from office now.  The 25th Amendment needs to be applied immediately.

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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 122nd Edition. Trouble with the Trump 'wimmins", Hypocrisy in the Trump Administration. The disappearing and reappearing J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio.

News reports this morning hold that Trump is considering canning Pam Bondi for her poor handling, if that's what she's doing, of the Epstein matter, which just won't go away.

The weird thing is that if you hang out with kiddy diddlers, brag about checking out teenage models at a pageant in the buff, talk about grabbing, well you know, people start to think you might be a kiddy diddler.

Weird, eh?

Anyhow, Trumps thinking of canning Bondi, and putting Lee Zeldin in her place. Zeldin is another Trump lawyer.  He's currently the head of the EPA.

If Bondi departs, she'll be the second major Trump admin sycophant to be canned, Noem being the first, so both cannings will have been of women.  A big difference, however, will be that Bondi is downright dangerous.  If Trump turns on Bondi, she'll turn on him.  Trump's advisors know that, but may be too afraid to tell him, and he's likely to dense to grasp that.

Noem, who turned out to be loathsome as the head of Homeland Security, won't be turning on Trump. . . yet. She's wait for him to be out of office, then she will.  But she's been back in the news due to her husband showing up in photos cross dressing and wearing big fake boobs.

Frankly, Noem, and her husband are to be pitied for this, not condemned.  But it does raise the interesting topic of hypocrisy in the Trump Administration.  The administration is thick with Christian Nationalism and "conservative values", but Noem was widely rumored to he engaged in an extramarital affair with another Trump official, even carting him around on expensive junkets. and now it turns out that her husband had what I'd regard as a sexually centered mental illness, one which he apparently didn't adequately attempt to conceal, and perhaps didn't attempt to conceal at all.  Trump himself is a serial polygamist and there are at least credible indicators that he may have fished in the shallow end of the pond, if not worse.  Bondi didn't acknowledged abused women after ranting at Congress.  Miller sounds like Himmler most of the time he speaks but is Jewish.

Perhaps we shouldn't be all that surprised.  The Nazis were sort of the same way.  There were affairs and of course one legendary homosexual scandal. 

Sin makes you stupid, as Jimmy Akin warns us.

Since the war with Iran started J. D. Vance has been hard to find  He's not out cheerleading the war like the nervous sounding Bessant or the administration like the "I took my family to Epstein Island but all I got was this T-shirt and I know absolutely nothing" Lutnick.  Vance is widely believed to have leaked his opposition to the war right as it started.

Another nearly silent, but not quite silent, Administration figure is Marco Rubio, who may be the one administration figure who doesn't do the "Oh Donald, may I kiss your ass" routing at cabinet meetings.  He hasn't been able to completely avoid the topic, but he's been pretty quiet  Indeed, Rubio tends to be remarkably quiet and when he shows up he tends to look really uncomfortable.   There's reason to believe that Rubio is the main backer on the administration's near invasion of Cuba and now that Trump is looking like a military dumbass, there's a real chance that Trump's ardor for military adventure may be over  For that matter, while the current military has been very damaged by Trump, there are likely still enough real officers in the military to protest against start  ing a second war when the current one isn't finished, and it's going to be at least a year, if not years, before that occurs.  Marco may have lost his campaign slogan for 2028 of Viva Cuba Libre "I did that".  

Rubio and Vance are somewhat unique in the Trump orbit as they're both real Catholics.  Press Secretary Leavitt is apparently as well, although it sure doesn't show as she's a full time liar.  

Rubio, when he speaks, tends to be pretending to be angry while saying Trump didn't say what he said, but what I'm going to say, even though Trump didn't say that camp.  

Vance has come out with a book on his conversation to Catholicism which is a big off ramp from the Trump Administration and its Paul Whites and Franklin Grahams.  It's a pretty clear signal that he's separating himself from the Evangelical far right fanatics and is beginning the process of separating himself from Trump.  The book is likely to draw criticism but it's a really smart move, as he's essentially getting up from the Paul White Bee Dance table and walking over to the adults and sitting down with the sane and sober.  He's going for the National Review/First Things crowd, not the NASCAR Country Pop gang.  By the time 2028 rolls around, the folks who were admiring Franklin Graham's letters to Trump will have forgotten all about them, for the most, part, with some being on to new wives and affairs but assured that as they were once saved, they'll aways be.

Rubio likely knows this is what Vance is doing and he's going to have to do something himself  What isn't clear  The value of being a failed President's Secretary of State hasn't really been there since Kissinger managed to find it had one.  Trump is looking worse as a President, indeed worse as a mammal, every day.  My guess is that if Trump isn't removed via the 25th Amendment, he'll find he forgot to let the cat out prior to November and will leave the administration.

When he leaves he can do what Bondi will do, if fired, and what Vance can't do, while Vice President, that being writing a tell all book.  Bondi's will be a bombshell, which is why Trump should not fire her if he's smart.  Bondi's "I Know Where all the Bodies are Buried and Who All the Teenage Concubines Were" tell all will be something else.  Rubio's "I Tried To Stop Trump From Being A Dumbass" book will be less salacious, but interesting  Vance won't have a chance to write something like that before 2028.

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The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Eleventh Edition. He's insane, and we all know it. Somebody close to him is watching it.

King Donny was bragging about acing cognitive tests again.

It's the Montreal Cognitive Assessment that he's taken, and it isn't given for entertainment.

He's being given these tests for a reason.  The fact that it's three times now is really remarkable.  He pretty clearly doesn't know the reason he takes them, but he complies with the requests.

The reason is that somebody is tracking his mental decline.

The real question is who?  His mental decline is patently obvious.  Somebody has enough influence on him to be able to require him to take it without him knowing why.  But who are the suspects and why are they tracking it?

An obvious answer is so that somebody knows when to flip the switch on the 25th Amendment and has his decline documented.  Another reason, however, might be that at some point a guardianship and conservatorship can be established and somebody, perhaps Melania, can control his assets.

Anyway you look at it, we have a demented man with sycophants surrounding him in the White House, launching wars, experimenting with 19th Century tax structures, and ending the status of the US as a great country.  This is being allowed to occur because it benefits somebody.

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Kimberlay. Kimberly Guilfoyle. I love calling her Kimberlay. That's my little pet name but you are the greatest. I hope you come back here in 12 years or whenever the term ends

Trump about Guilfoyle.  

It's fairly well documented that those with disordered desires lose their ability to restrain themselves in regard to them.

March 28, 2026

He didn’t think he would be kissing my ass, he really didn’t…and now he has to be nice to me….he better be nice to me, he’s gotta be..

Donald Trump on Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the ruler of Saudi Arabia.

What an irony.  Bibi Netanyahu talked the demented Don into a war and the Prince has been urging Don to keep at it.  US forces and finances are fighting a war in the Middle East for Israel and Saudi Arabia.  Don's the ass kisser, but he's too dumb to realize it.

March 31, 2026

We're entering the most dangerous time of the Trump interregnum, from now until the November election.

He's already bouncing off the walls.  He's losing a war, he's threatening our Allies.  Nobody in the world has any respect for Trump, and he knows it. Allies ignore him.  Enemies ignore hm.  And he can't win a war that he thought would last a few days.

The economy is tanking due to the war, and there's no end to that disaster in sight.

He's trying to ban mail in voting.  That will fail.

He's been enjoined from further work on his pet ballroom, and the Court indicated that it was almost certain that it would rule against him. That will take months to happen, and work on the ballroom will never start up again.  It's over.

He's going to start lashing out like crazy.

He is crazy.  

The clock on the 25th Amendment is really winding down.

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Chiles v. Salazar.

A victory for free speech, rational thought, and science.

Only one dissenting vote.

Only the synopsis is provided.

The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Tenth Edition. Finger on the nuclear trigger.

 

Oh yeah, that's the look of a sane man, right?   Photo by LAURENT GILLIERON / POOL / AFP via Getty Images, posted under Fair Use Exception.

Kaitlan Collins:  "Mr. President, what would you say to sex abuse survivors of Epstein who haven’t seen justice” 

Donald Trump: “You know, I’ve never seen you smile”

Man, that's creepy.

I wonder how many teenage girls head that after they were raped at Epstein Island?

February 7, 2026

Trump claimed in an interview with the New York Post that Venezuela failed to get their AAA rockets off the ground during the U.S.'s raid as the US used a "discombobulator" on them.

Um. . .sure.

In a bit of a defense for the deranged prince, what the military probably was referring to was an electronic jamming system.  While no doubt the most recent variants are quite advanced, such systems have been around for a very long time.

Trump's incredibly racist post depicting the Obama's as apes was taken down and blamed on a staffer.

Um. . . sure.

Trump is also claiming that the US has wanted a triumphal arch for 200 years, with is complete nonsense and which is only slightly less weird than his claim that Presidents have wanted the giant outhouse he hopes to build for 100 years.

February 9, 2026

Loss of inhibitions can be a sign of dementia.

This is definitely a "get off my lawn" moment.

February 10, 2026

Trump is clearly unhinged.

A spoiled brat and a real estate developer by trade, he sees the world through a pinhole.  His mind is turning to much.  He needs to be removed.

February 20, 2026

I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. I said to my people, 'Am I allowed to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor?'…Someday I'm going to try. I'm going to test the law

Donald Trump.

February 21, 2026

Greenland has universal health care.  

Greenland is presently taking care of a U.S sailor evacuated from a U.S. submarine. . . by a Danish Seahawk helicopter.

Trump is completely delusional.  He should be removed.

Greenland doesn't need this, and moreover, Greenland's universal healthcare is something Americans lack.  If anything, Denmark should send a hospital ship to us.

This is patently absurd.  Frankly, at this point, anyone supporting Trump is not doing so out of faith in him, unless they're just willfully ignorant.  So outside of that, why on Earth is anyone not demanding that he be removed?

March 4, 2026

Mad King Donny is threatening to cut off all trade with Spain.

March 16, 2026

This is the first installment of this since Trump ignored his advisers and launched a war against Iran that he thought might last a few days and bring him a big victory.

It isn't.  It's wrecking the economy and there's no end in sight.   He is, of course, having a complete fit:

With Iran, Trump has met something that truly doesn't care what he thinks about anything whatsoever.  He can't bully them, he's already attacking them.  The news isn't cheery and he can't lie his way out of it.

Given this, the stress of his complete impotence here is going to get worse and worse, and probably with that, his behavior  He's threatening not to directly take on the Press, which may finally cause the US press to grow a spine.

And things may be beginning to finally happen:

A theory very close to the one I've advanced here.

We are now in a very dangerous place in the globe. Trump is an immoral man, and he's demented.  He's also getting desperate.  At some point my guess is he'll start asking Hegseth about what nuclear weapons might do here.  And he will commit, to some degree, U.S. ground forces.

March 22, 2026

In his madness and frustration over his  massive, and frankly stupid, miscalculation over Iran's reaction to being attacked in an illegal war by the US, Donald Trump is now resorting to broadcasting his illegal intentions on social media.  If Iran does not open the Straits of Hormuz, which its not going to, he's going to order US forces to illegally strike the electrical power structure of Iran.

Trump is a monster.  The 25th Amendment  must be invoked now.

With Trump reaching new levels of barbarism and insanity, we will close with this edition.

March 24, 2026

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story

"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."

And with this entry, which nails it, we'll go on to a new edition.

To sum it up, Donald Trump is insane.

Cont:

He looked old, and he seemed tired. His speech slurred. More than anything else, he seemed utterly unattuned to the many crises that are all piling up around his many careless decisions. He finished speaking, everybody else at the table took turns lavishing him with praise, and then it was time to head to Graceland.

We’ve made the point many times during Trump’s second term, but it bears repeating: There’s little reason to believe that any of this is an affectation. Trump is a lifelong pathological solipsist. He’s fed that solipsism by vacuum-packing himself in an information environment of buttery flattery, spending his days marinating in the most over-the-top praise both in person and online. And it hasn’t helped that, as he’s gotten older, he’s seemingly fallen prey to the same tendencies that many old people do: the strongest parts of his personality just keep getting stronger. Any day now, he seems genuinely to believe, it’s all gonna turn around. Everybody just wait and see. The golden age is mere moments away.

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