In American politics today, reality often bends to fit the narrative Democrats want to tell about who should or shouldn’t lead. Democrats shrugged off Joe Biden’s cognitive stumbles as minor quirks, while President Donald Trump’s every move gets dissected, exaggerated, and paraded as proof that he’s unfit for office. Against this backdrop, Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-Calif.) latest call to invoke the 25th Amendment is just the newest stunt in the Democrats’ never-ending effort to paint Trump as mentally unfit.
Waters slammed Trump’s decision to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook as “one of the most destructive moves imaginable,” inexplicably warning that it could throw the economy into chaos and put Wall Street at risk and urging immediate, aggressive action instead of waiting for the courts.
"It is time to call for Article [sic] 25 of the Constitution of the United States of America to determine his unfitness, to determine that something’s wrong with this president. And I would suggest that we move very aggressively to talk about the danger to this country and to our democracy and not play around with this, because this is absolutely one of the most destructive things that this president could do," Waters told MSNBC's Symone Sanders-Townsend.
This isn’t the first time Waters has invoked the 25th Amendment against Trump. Naturally, Sanders-Townsend leaned into the hysteria, noting that presidents have faced impeachment for far less. Really?
Mentally unstable Maxine Waters wants to invoke “Article 25” of the Constitution because she says Trump is mentally unfit for office.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 30, 2025
“Something's wrong with this president!" pic.twitter.com/pXvptLIN5J
This is all part of a familiar Democratic and media pattern: repeatedly questioning Trump’s mental fitness and relying on partisan “experts” to sow doubt about his ability to lead.
Yet the hypocrisy is glaring. During Biden’s chaotic presidency, marked by repeated cognitive missteps, the same Democrats and media personalities who insisted Trump is unfit treated Biden as the epitome of competence. The charade ended after Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump forced him out of the race.
Then, after Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, the same people who insisted that Biden was sharp as a tack and called attacks on his cognitive health “ageism” sought to make Trump’s age an issue in the campaign. It didn’t work, but they certainly tried.
This shift exposes the game: Democrats and their media allies are desperate to rewrite the story of presidential fitness. Trump may be controversial, but he hasn’t displayed the cognitive struggles that Biden shows routinely. And yet, Waters and her fellow Democrats weaponize the 25th Amendment, a tool to protect the country from a genuinely incapacitated president, as a political cudgel to undermine him.
And this isn’t exactly a new tactic. The left’s obsession with removing President Trump via the 25th Amendment has been a persistent and unwavering theme since before he even took office. Less than two weeks before Trump’s inauguration in 2017, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen argued that impeachment was too cumbersome a tool and suggested the 25th Amendment as a more practical option to remove him for being “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
That sentiment quickly gained traction among Democrats in Congress, with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) introducing a resolution to create an independent commission to assess Trump’s mental fitness, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) proposing a bill requiring a physical and mental health exam to determine whether the president suffered from a mental disorder or other injury that could impair his ability to lead.
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Some insiders even claimed that officials within the Department of Justice considered it as a possible tool against him, while Waters has openly fantasized about it ever since.
The fact that these discussions began before Trump took office and continued relentlessly underscores that the left’s fixation on removing him was never a response to any legitimate concern but a long-standing political agenda. Recent calls to invoke the 25th Amendment over events in which Trump had no involvement are, therefore, less an expression of genuine worry and far more an exercise in opportunistic, partisan posturing.
