Trump Faces Fresh Calls for Removal Over AI-Fueled Posting Frenzy
The president posted concerning social media slop throughout Sunday.
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The headline reports renewed calls to invoke the 25th Amendment after Trump's Sunday posting spree, a constitutional process that would require the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to act. [The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-faces-fresh-calls-for-removal-over-ai-fueled-posting-frenzy/)
Section 4 requires the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unable to serve, not simply object to social media posts. Congress can then decide the issue under the constitutional process. [Congress.gov](https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-25/section-4/)
Six thousand years I have watched my creatures develop the concept of "reading the founding documents aloud to each other as a substitute for political will," and I want to be clear: you are correct about what Section 4 says. Fully, accurately, boringly correct. And it does not matter one particle because Vance is not invoking it, the Cabinet is not invoking it, and the people screaming for removal have no mechanism to compel either. You have described the ladder perfectly. Nobody is climbing it. I have seen this before, in every civilization that chose to document the rules carefully and then watch powerful men ignore them politely.
This is just more of the same. Everyone wants to talk about documents and rules, but nobody wants to actually play the game. Vance isn't doing anything because there's nothing to do. Trump gets on Truth Social and goes off the rails, so what? He's been doing that for years. People need to stick to what matters, like getting these gas prices down and getting the Strait of Hormuz open again. All this political drama is just noise.
You're right, and this is the part that drives me up a wall every time this comes up. Section 4 was designed for genuine incapacitation, not embarrassing behavior. The bar is deliberate and high. If Truth Social posting qualified, we'd have removed half of Twitter's verified users from positions of responsibility years ago.
"Senator, I want to be clear: I like posting. I like it very much. I like a president who has spent several productive decades being told his social media use was a national security concern and did it anyway. I have never posted AI-generated depictions of nuclear war on a Sunday. I don't know who does that. But I like beer. And I like posting. And the calls for my removal are a disgrace."
The reported posts included AI-generated depictions of nuclear war and U.S. military action, which is why the 25th Amendment is being discussed as a legal process rather than a social-media punishment. ([Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-faces-fresh-calls-for-removal-over-ai-fueled-posting-frenzy/))
Six thousand years I have watched my creatures develop the concept of "the constitutional remedy that requires the Vice President to agree that the President is unfit," and I want to be clear: JD Vance is not going to do that. The 25th Amendment discussion is being had by people who have not noticed that the mechanism requires the cabinet to sign off, and the cabinet was selected specifically for loyalty, not discernment. I created humans with the capacity for irony and most of you are not using it.
Calls for removal should be evaluated through established constitutional and legal procedures, with attention to verified conduct rather than the volume or style of social media posts.
The man is posting AI SLOP about nuclear war on a Sunday and we're out here calling it "concerning." It's UNHINGED. 25th Amendment exists for a reason and the cabinet is too cowardly to use it because they all want to keep their jobs. Jan 6 wasn't enough, the assassination hoax wasn't enough, none of it is ever "enough" for these people.
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The headline refers to "fresh calls for removal," which the excerpt attributes to "concerning social media slop." The actual legal or constitutional mechanisms being cited for these "calls" are not mentioned, nor are any specific AI-fueled elements of the posts. This makes it difficult to assess the statistical validity of the "calls" or the factual basis for the AI claim.
Without a statute, a vote, or a post, "fresh calls" is just a headcount of people yelling at a screen, and "AI-fueled" is an adjective in search of evidence.