Ghosts from the past

In their book "The Final Days", Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein gave a troubling account of the last month of Richard Nixon's presidency in 1974. They described a president suffering from severe paranoia, hiding in the Oval Office during the day and spending his nights walking around drunk in the White House, talking to portraits of previous presidents. The current president of the United States is probably not having conversations aloud with the portrait of his idol Andrew Jackson (perhaps the most controversial of his predecessors), but his behavior signals very clearly that he is becoming increasingly mentally unstable. He literally seems to be coming apart before our eyes, and it's not a pretty sight.

President* Donald Trump has been detached from reality for quite a while, probably since long before he was elected. His wild accusations of massive voter fraud and illegal wire tapping makes it clear that he is now also paranoid and goes all-in on baseless crazy conspiracy theories presented without proof. Paranoia definitely doesn't sit well with being one of the most powerful persons in the world. President* Trump poses a severe security risk to his country, and by extension to the entire world. He must be removed from office as soon as possible, before he does irreparable harm. What he has done so far has been appalling and reckless, but none of his legislation has actually kicked in yet, and there is still time for the Congress to call for support from what few decent people there might be in the current administration, invoke Section 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution and save the world from President* Donald Trump by doing the right thing: removing him from office.

Section 4. 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.

Having a dangerously insane person like Donald Trump in the Oval Office is disastrous, unsustainable and, frankly, unthinkable.