{"id":59678,"date":"2026-04-08T00:19:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59678"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:19:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:19:04","slug":"gotta-ask-finally-has-trump-lost-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59678","title":{"rendered":"Gotta ask, finally: Has Trump lost it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">My commitment to avoid offering armchair diagnoses of Donald Trump&#8217;s mental condition remains fairly strong &#8230; although I am going to acknowledge some kinks in the armor.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A lot of men and women, some with medical degrees, are saying the same voice about Trump: They believe the boy&#8217;s mental acuity is on a serious glide path toward the ash heap. I now shall acknowledge the obvious, which is that if enough medical experts detect cognitive decline in the head of state and commander in chief of the strongest military in world history &#8230; that&#8217;s time to engage in a serious discussion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The question? Is it time to invoke the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the one that empowers the removal of a president from the awesome power at his disposal? We well might be entering that phase.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Trump is increasingly addled. He is changing policy stances literally every hour, or so it seems. He is angering out political allies. He started a war with Iran and has yet to tell us why he has subjected our young warriors to the prospect of war with a nation of 91 million citizens.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s time to invoke the 25th. I am leaving that call to others. A growing number of them are saying, &#8220;Hell yes, it&#8217;s time!&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I&#8217;m getting close to joining that amen chorus.<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My commitment to avoid offering armchair diagnoses of Donald Trump&#8217;s mental condition remains fairly strong &#8230; although I am going to acknowledge some kinks in the armor. A lot of men and women, some with medical degrees, are saying the same voice about Trump: They believe the boy&#8217;s mental acuity is on a serious glide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gotta ask, finally: Has Trump lost it?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1424,9871],"class_list":["post-59678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-mental-acuity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59680,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59678\/revisions\/59680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}