The Hysteria Never Ends
Here we go again. Another day, another Democrat lawmaker throwing around amateur psychiatric diagnoses like confetti at a parade nobody asked for. Rep. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona decided Monday was the perfect time to declare President Trump “extremely mentally ill” and demand his immediate removal via the 25th Amendment. Her crime? Discussing Greenland. Yes, Greenland.
Let’s be clear about something. The 25th Amendment wasn’t designed as a legislative tantrum button for freshmen congresswomen who disagree with foreign policy positions. It exists for genuine incapacitation, not policy disputes dressed up in pseudo-medical language. But nuance died somewhere around 2016, and we’re left with this kind of political theater.
Ansari’s outburst came after Trump’s recent comments about Greenland and NATO, which Ambassador Matthew Whitaker characterized as part of productive diplomatic conversations. You know what’s actually happening here? Trump is doing what he said he’d do: rethinking America’s strategic position in a world that’s grown far more dangerous. That’s not mental illness. That’s called leadership, even when it makes people uncomfortable.
A Pattern We’ve Seen Before
The irony here is thick enough to cut with a butter knife. Democrats spent years insisting we should trust the science, respect medical expertise, and stop stigmatizing mental health. Then they turn around and weaponize mental illness accusations against political opponents without a shred of clinical evidence. It’s grotesque, honestly.
This isn’t Ansari’s original idea, of course. She’s recycling a playbook Democrats have been running since Trump first took office. Remember the parade of cable news psychiatrists violating every ethical standard in their profession to diagnose Trump from their studios? Remember the breathless speculation about cognitive decline, about fitness for office, about secret health crises?
They tried this already. It didn’t work then. It won’t work now.
What’s Really at Stake
Trump’s comments about Greenland aren’t random musings from someone detached from reality. They’re part of a broader strategic conversation about American interests in an era of renewed great power competition. China’s making moves in the Arctic. Russia’s been active there for years. Greenland sits at a critical geographic crossroads for both military and economic purposes.
But sure, let’s pretend discussing these realities makes someone mentally unfit. Let’s ignore that Harry Truman once tried to buy Greenland too. Let’s just skip over the part where thinking beyond the status quo has always been part of American statecraft.
The real question isn’t about Trump’s mental state. It’s about whether our political class can handle a president who refuses to accept the comfortable assumptions that got us into this mess. Spoiler alert: they can’t.
The Freshman Overreach
Ansari’s barely warmed her congressional seat, and she’s already calling for presidential removal. That’s bold, I’ll give her that. It’s also reckless and fundamentally unserious. If you genuinely believed the president posed an imminent threat to national security, you wouldn’t announce it via Twitter like you’re sharing your thoughts on a Netflix series.
This is performance art for the resistance crowd who still can’t accept that Trump won. It’s red meat for a base that’s been conditioned to view every Trump action through the lens of apocalyptic crisis. It’s exhausting, and more importantly, it’s counterproductive.
When you cry wolf about mental illness and constitutional crises every single week, people stop listening. They tune out. And when there might actually be something worth paying attention to, you’ve already spent all your credibility on stunts like this.
The White House hasn’t responded yet to Ansari’s accusations, and frankly, why would they? This doesn’t merit a response. It merits what it is: a footnote in the ongoing saga of Democrats who still haven’t figured out how to oppose Trump’s policies without losing their minds in the process.
America faces real challenges. We’ve got economic headwinds, border chaos, and international threats that require serious people making serious decisions. What we don’t need is freshman legislators playing doctor on social media because they don’t like how the president talks about Greenland.
That’s not resistance. That’s just noise.
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