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AOC Says Keep Trump on the Golf Course, Questions His Fitness Under the 25th Amendment

Democrats face long odds in a GOP-led Congress to formalize any fitness review.

Overview

  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Monday she would rather see President Trump on the golf course than in the Oval Office.
  • Her comments followed reporting on Trump’s frequent golf outings, which a HuffPost analysis says have cost taxpayers more than $100 million in his second term.
  • She pointed to a Wall Street Journal account that aides kept Trump out of minute-by-minute updates during a recent rescue of downed U.S. airmen in Iran because they believed his impatience would not help.
  • Ocasio-Cortez said that if Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room, it raises Section 4 questions, which lets the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet declare a president unable to serve and make the vice president acting president.
  • Rep. Jamie Raskin filed a bill last week to create a commission to evaluate presidential fitness, though passage is unlikely in a Republican-run Congress and MS NOW’s Jen Psaki said the 25th “is not going to happen.”