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In reply to the discussion: help me, why in the world would trump want a nuclear arms race? [View all]jmowreader
(53,194 posts)The Twenty-Fifth Amendment, fourth paragraph, gives them all the tools they need to overthrow Trump:
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.
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.
The process:
Step 0: Trump attempts to nuke another country because its leaders were mean to him.
Step 1: Mike Pence and a majority of the Cabinet write a letter that says Donald Trump's mental condition makes him unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. They sign it and make four copies. The first copy goes to the president pro tempore of the Senate. The second to the Speaker of the House. The third goes to the mangled apricot hellbeast, and the fourth is sent to Fox News. They keep the original.
Step 2: Trump goes on Fox News and does this:
Step 2a: Trump then tweets Congress that he is capable of discharging the powers and duties of his office.
Step 3: Congress convenes, declares Trump unfit to be president, and sends him home.