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Professor Mark Graber is quoted in "25th Amendment Explained: How Trump Could Be Removed Without Impeachment" in Newsweek on January 20, 2026. Graber is a University System of Maryland Regents Professor and a University of Maryland, Baltimore Distinguished University Professor.
There are both political and legal problems with efforts to invoke the 25th Amendment. The legal problem is that the 25th Amendment was designed to deal with a medically incapacitated president, for example, a president who is unconscious or unable to physically perform the duties of the office. We might imagine a mentally ill president whose beliefs are so fantastic that he or she can no longer perform the job, but President Trump is not suffering from that form of psychosis...A fair case can be made that President Trump's actions are impeachable, but that is a different part of the Constitution and suffers from the same political problem.