This is nuts!

Just before the inauguration I wrote a diary about whether in case Trump developed dementia folks could tell the difference. He has said many delusional things over the years. For example, he tweeted that global warming is a Chinese hoax or said just last year that the Central Park Five are guilty despite being exonerated many years ago. But Trump's behaviour has become unacceptable no matter how its viewed.

If Trump has Alzheimer's that would explain his crazed behaviour this week. Generally, the GOP are still holding that this is all still just Trump being Trump which sure smacks of whistling Dixie past the graveyard. If this is Alzheimer's then this only gets worse.

I speak from the experience of being part of a family with a history of Alzheimer's like Trump's family does. I have noted family members who late in life changed in a dramatic way and sometimes in a very remarkable way. For example, a woman who was a homemaker who in her fifties dropped everything to become an award winning university student or a man who quit a high paying professional position to successfully start a small business. But in both those cases they shortly afterwards developed full blown Alzheimer's and needed to be institutionalized.

The Republicans seem determined to ride this out having made the devil's bargain to accept his behaviour in hopes of pushing their agenda. How's that working out? Not well.

Its time and past time to have a discussion about possible 25th amendment remedies. As Time notes:

… Section 4 empowers Congress to form its own body to evaluate the President’s fitness for office, eliminating the need for the Cabinet’s involvement in the process (emphasis ours): 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.

I suspect the least worst option is an impeachment that will only come with a Democratic congress in 2018.