the 25th amendment, section IV

Mad Bastards,

Never mind the newest dance craze, Last Night in Sweden, did note over the weekend that some prominent Trick Cyclist declared that while The Donald is a "world class narcissist", he is not mentally ill.
You need distress and impairment for that diagnosis.
DJ is not distressed; he's lovin' it!
DJ is not impaired; he's not short of a greenback or two after doing what he's been doing every single day for the past 50 years.
The psychiatrist in question suggests that the best way to send the POTUS utterly mad is to inflict "narcissist injury"...i.e. completely ignore him.
If he is not on the front page of the papers and all over the TV news every day, he'll go crazy, no doubt about that.
I'm calling it.
I give it six months, maybe a bit longer, before the "fake media" lose all interest in the dude, and insanity sets in.
Then, under the US Constitution, all the Vice President and a simple majority of the loopy-loops appointed to the Cabinet have to do is agree that the POTUS is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office", and The Donald is gorn → to the nut-house in a straight-jacket.
Mr Pence then becomes the Acting President, appoints a new Acting Vice President, and that's the way it is, until the next election.
Brilliant.
The Miracle of Democracy.

25th amendment, section IV.

"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office."

(originally published 20-02-17)