I want to talk to you today about something serious. Not political. Constitutional. And I’m going to give you the education first, so when I land this, you understand exactly what I’m saying and why it matters.
Most of you have heard of the 25th Amendment. Most of you think it means “remove the president.” That’s not quite right — and the difference matters.
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment says that when a president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office — the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet can declare that in writing, and the Vice President becomes Acting President immediately.
The key word is unable.
Now here’s where the education comes in.
The mental health community has a diagnostic manual. It’s called the DSM — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is the bible of behavioral medicine. And in that manual, there is a diagnosis called Grandiose Delusional Disorder. It sits in the clinical category alongside conditions that impair a person’s ability to perceive reality accurately — and to make rational decisions.
The architects of the 25th Amendment were explicit. Congressman Richard Poff, one of the key authors, said Section 4 was written to cover situations where a president — quote — “by reason of mental debility, is unable or unwilling to make any rational decision.”
Mental debility. Inability to make rational decisions.
Now. Let me show you 48 hours.
Saturday night. The Pope — Pope Leo the Fourteenth, the first American pope in history, a man born in Chicago — stands at the altar of Saint Peter’s Basilica and delivers a peace vigil address. And in that address he warns the world against what he calls a “delusion of omnipotence” driving global instability. He is talking about the war with Iran. He is talking about the behavior of this administration.
Sunday night. The President of the United States responds on Truth Social. He attacks the Pope. He says — and I’m paraphrasing — “I don’t want a Pope who criticizes me. I was elected in a landslide to do exactly what I’m doing.”
And then — same night — he posts an AI-generated image of himself. Portrayed as Jesus Christ.
That happened. That is documented. That is in the public record.
Now in that same 48-hour window — we also learn that on June 14th — his 80th birthday — this president intends to build a 100,000-seat stadium on the South Lawn of the White House to host a UFC fight. While the country is at war. While gas prices are climbing. While inflation is heating back up.
Three data points. Forty-eight hours.
Here’s what a clinician sees: grandiose ideation, persecution response, messianic self-identification, and detachment from the weight of the office during active military conflict.
Here’s what a constitutional scholar sees: a man potentially unable to discharge the powers and duties of the presidency.
And here’s what I see — as someone running for United States Senate in New Hampshire as an Undeclared, non-partisan candidate who answers to you and not to any political machine:
I see a constitutional mechanism that exists precisely for this moment — that has never been invoked — sitting unused while the people who are supposed to invoke it look the other way.
Trump’s own former White House attorney — a man who served him, defended him, worked inside that building — went on record last week and said the Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment. His words, not mine.
So I’m asking the same question he’s asking.
Not as a Democrat. Not as a Republican. As a citizen. As a candidate. As someone who took this seriously enough to run.
Why hasn’t it been invoked?
The only action is action.
I’m Tim Harris. I’m running for United States Senate in New Hampshire. Undeclared. Non-partisan. No machine. No permission required.
Harris4Senate.com. Let’s go.
