Can't be trusted with unchecked authority to launch nuclear weapons
Washington, DC—On April 30, 2026, a group of 36 leading physicians and other doctors with expertise in mental health issued a statement calling for President Donald J. Trump’s immediate, lawful removal from office for medical reasons. His mental instability, coupled with his sole, unchecked authority to launch nuclear weapons, makes him a clear and present danger to the safety of all Americans, they declared.
The U.S. Senate offices of Sheldon
Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) entered their statement into the
Congressional Record, Vol. 172, No. 76.
While they did not offer diagnoses, the experts were informed by voluminous evidence from the historical record of the president’s bizarre and impulsive behavior, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, and his deeply impaired judgment.
Since we circulated our concerns among medical colleagues, Mr. Trump has exhibited more signs of grandiosity, e.g., posting images of himself on social media shaking hands with God, acting like Jesus, and dressing as a Pope. And he has continued nocturnal bingeing on social media posts that are filled with accusations of multiple conspiracies against him, as often as 150 times a night.
Most worrisome are his
outbursts of extreme, seemingly uncontrollable rage, such as his threat to
destroy Iran, saying, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be
brought back again.”
Current nuclear policy permits a president, and the
president alone, to choose the time and target of a nuclear launch, without his
orders being subject to review. The U.S. has a policy that permits a first use
of nuclear weapons. These policies, combined with an emotionally unstable
leader is a formula for unspeakable tragedy waiting to happen. For this reason
above all others, the group of medical experts urged that lawful steps be taken
to remove the president from office.
Contact: Henry David Abraham M.D., HenryAbrahamMD@gmail.com or (617) 955-9710
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The issuance of our Statement, written before Donald Trump’s
illegal war on Iran, at the beckoning of another dangerously unfit leader,
Benjamin Natanyahu, coincides with an article
in the Hill, titled: “Most Americans Say Trump is Mentally,
Physically Unfit to Serve Effectively.”
The article reports:
A new poll found that most Americans say they believe
President Trump is mentally and physically unfit to serve as commander in
chief.
The Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found
that 59 percent of U.S. respondents said that Trump does not have the mental
sharpness it takes to lead the country. Forty percent of respondents said the
president is mentally equipped for leadership, and 1 percent of participants
skipped the question.
Comparatively, 55 percent of U.S. adults said Trump is not
in good enough physical health to serve as president, while 44 percent
disagreed and 1 percent of survey participants skipped the question.
More than half of respondents, 54 percent, said they do not
believe the president is a strong leader.
Sixty-seven percent of survey participants also said they
don’t think Trump carefully considers important decisions.
It adds:
The responses fall in line with separate recent surveys
indicating the president’s disapproval rating reached a new high.
This has been our main concern for his escalation, and he is
showing signs of it every day. Now is the time for Congress to act on the will
of the people and the medical statement they themselves requested—as the safety
and survival of the nation (and perhaps the world) is nonpartisan and
nonnegotiable.
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