Sabrina Haake: Trump, dementia and the duty to warn

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Sabrina Haake - (archived: https://archive.ph/gGkog ) Trump, dementia and the duty to warn

By Sabrina Haake - Commentary
April 12, 2025 7:11AM ET

To ensure that the United States will always be led by a coherent, functioning President, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment provides for the prompt, orderly, and democratic transfer of executive power in the event the president is incapacitated, physically or mentally. Trump’s tariff debacle, where he thrust out his chest, flung economic incoherence at the world, then flip flopped only two days later, was the strongest evidence yet- in a roiling sea of evidence- that he is mentally incapacitated.

Despite inheriting the strongest post-covid economy in the world, Trump keeps insisting that the US economy is broken and in need of saving.He insists global trading partners who sell us more than they buy from us- even countries that are a fraction of our size- are “taking advantage.”

Trump’s tariff drama was so asinine, he’s either self-dealing or insane. Frankly, although they are not mutually exclusive, I’d prefer the former. I only wish that rumors swirling in the media today, suggesting Trump’s tariffs were a hustle, an insider scheme meant to enrich his backers, were true. Trump being a self-dealing crook poses less danger to the world than him making than no sense at all.

Dementia and the Duty to Warn
Leaders of the EU are too intelligent to sneer out loud at Trump’s flip flop on tariffs. Aware of his deranged lust for revenge, they are reluctant to utter the truth about his economic ignorance. But the world is aware, even if Americans aren’t, that our president is deranged.

Because Trump’s administration hasrefused to release his medical records, other mental health professionals have come forward with their own assessments. The emerging consensus is that Trump, showing cognitive decline, is presenting signs of advanced dementia.

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1. There Are Two Reasons He Will Never Be Removed from Office:

1. The Rightwing media will still defend anything he does.

If Trump were in the bunker in Berlin in April of 1945 as the Soviets encircled Berlin, Fox and Newsmax would state how well the war was going and how this was all part of the Furher's secret plan to trap the Allies. As laughable as this sounds, if you only listen to rightwing media, you'd believe it. Look at the economy President Biden left us, yet every night people who only watch Fox believed we were in a recession. Now, Trump is genuis in his stand on tariffs to the world.

2. Republicans Will Never Stand Up to Trump.

The thing that pisses me off more than anything else is, not only did Trump go unpunished for his January 6th coup; Republicans nominated him and relected him President. They will NEVER stop him or invoke the 25th Amendment.

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2. Trump couldn't and didn't hide who he is in Campaign 2024.

Republican politicians and Republican voters are totally OK with it. Too bad there's no way to 25th Amendment Republicans, because you so totally could.