Overview
- Trump’s former White House lawyer Ty Cobb said the president’s mental condition has “deteriorated substantially,” called him a “madman,” and urged removal under the 25th Amendment.
- The White House rejected Cobb’s claims, with spokesman Davis Ingle mocking him and praising the president’s “sharpness” in an official statement.
- Cobb pointed to late-night social posts and threats toward Iran, including warnings that a “whole civilisation will die tonight” and demands to “Open the F**kin’ Strait,” as signs of dangerous judgment during the Iran conflict and the Hormuz standoff.
- Rep. Jamie Raskin has proposed creating a bipartisan commission to work with Vice President J.D. Vance on assessing presidential capacity under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
- A group of mental-health professionals told Congress the president is cognitively unfit, though any Section 4 move would still require the vice president’s agreement and, if contested, two-thirds votes in both the House and Senate.