Is There Any Provision In The American Constitution To Deal With People Who Hold High Office...

[sandyRoe]

...and are clearly bonkers?

[jourdain2]

Don't think that situation was envisaged, sorry, can't help.

[Jackdaw33]

Whom do you have in mind?

[vetuste_ennemi]

I don't know. You'll have to check with Mr. Madison on that?

Are there provisions in the same document for dealing with presidents who weaken America, empower its enemies and put nuclear weapons in the hands of fanatical theocrats? There's a Louis Walsh big fat yes to that. In practice such behaviour has been rewarded with a Nobel *** prize and a kiss from Dingo Woman.

[Jackdaw33]

Kennedy and Clinton were both prolific 'bonkers'.

[sandyRoe]

I meant 'bonkers ' in the mental health sense

[vetuste_ennemi]

Which of these policies are the result of "rational" thinking:

Withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan;
overthrow Gaddafi;
get rid of Mubarak;
assist Assad's opponents?

I could go on.

My rhetorical question has two answers:

All these policies are rational. None of them are.

Depending, of course, whether you're on the side of America, its constitution and its influence, or against all these things.

[Buenchico]

"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"
[Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America]

https://www.romper.com/p/could-donald-trump-be-removed-with-the-25th-amendment-mike-pence-could-fire-the-president-22722

[vortex]

If there were any serious mental health issues relating to anyone in high office, whether that may include DT or not, I am sure that it would have clearly manifested itself during the long campaigning.

The fact is, DT, won and thus gave him a clean bill of health. In no time at all we have seen mass demonstrations, which tells us more about the people involved than DT, and the ruthless dissection of his actions and words which have become warped by a twisted mindset in an attempt to blatantly discredit him.

It all goes to demonstrate further that huge swathes of people believe in a process where one ought to be condemned without trial. Shame on them.

[anneasquith]

I truly believe he is mentally disturbed, I do wonder why his staff actually tell lies on his behalf, ?

[vortex]

anneasquith - do you think that it is plausible that the US electorate would knowingly vote for a mentally disturbed individual?

[woofgang]

errmmmm yes!

[anneasquith]

His behaviour is becoming more and more bizarre , the people who elected him forgave him sexual comments , maybe they think its OK for a president to communicate via twitter ?

[anneasquith]

DB. Forget what the media say , have you actually watched him talk ,,communicate live on television, ? If u have can you honestly say you think his behavior is that of a sane person ?

[Buenchico]

Anne:
My links here (at 0032) seem to support what you're saying.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1534905.html

Further, a review of 24,210 (peer-reviewed) articles on climate change (by a total of 69,406 authors from all over the world) carried out by the Executive Director of the US National Physic Science Consortium, James L Powell, found that only 5 articles (by just 4 authors) argued that globl warming isn't due to the activities of mankind. The other 24,205 articles said that it is. Yet DT wrote (in a 2012 tweet) that "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive".

So who should we believe? Donald Trump or the 69,402 scientists who wrote those articles?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Dear me.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Selective Googling is not informed opinion.