Trump Faces Calls for the 25th Amendment Over Public Tantrum

Kevin Lamarque / Kevin Lamarque, Reuters President Donald Trump’s latest outburst has yet again triggered calls to use a rarely invoked constitutional amendment.

Calls to invoke the 25th Amendment surged after Donald Trump, 80, unraveled at a disastrous Tuesday press conference, threatening a reporter, mangling his own vice president’s name, and complaining that Russia had botched its invasion of Ukraine.

In a stunning moment, a visibly irate Trump snarled at The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg when he attempted to ask a follow-up question.

“Hey! I don’t know who the hell you are, but you better be careful,” he told Feinberg while wagging a finger.

“What’s wrong with you? Are you a sick person?” he added later.

“I actually think there’s something wrong with you.” Occupy Democrats blasted Trump over the tense exchange.

“This President is clearly in free fall and the continued silence of the Republican Party is a damning indictment of their entire movement,” it said in a lengthy X post .

“These cowards are so addicted to power that they are going to let this man run the country into the ground as his brain melts out of his ears.” The group called on its followers to like and share the post “if you support invoking the 25th Amendment!” The post drew 14,000 likes, thousands of reposts, and hundreds of comments.

The 25th Amendment lays out a succession plan in the event of presidential vacancy and disability, including when “he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” to ensure that the U.S.

“will always possess a functioning President and Vice President.” The amendment has been repeatedly invoked since Trump returned to the White House last year at age 78, becoming the oldest person to be inaugurated as U.S. president.

Trump’s physical and mental fitness have long generated controversy thanks to his chronically bruised hands, swollen ankles, mental flubs, and public bouts of drowsiness.

The White House has attributed the bruising to everything from frequent handshaking to the president’s high-dose aspirin regimen, while his cankles have been blamed on chronic venous insufficiency, a common condition where leg veins struggle to push blood back up to the heart.

On Tuesday, however, it was Trump’s demeanor that prompted calls to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Former Illinois representative Joe Walsh reposted a clip of Trump’s outburst at Feinberg with the caption, “25th Amendment.” Anti-MAGA commentator Joe Gallina shook his head at what he described as Trump’s “TOTAL MELTDOWN.” “What the 25th Amendment is for,” he said, reposting Trump and Feinberg’s exchange.