When the people questioning a president’s mental fitness include his most loyal former allies, a conspiracy theorist who was ordered to pay $1.4 billion in damages and the woman who once called herself his biggest supporter in Congress, something significant has shifted.
That is where American politics finds itself in April 2026.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who spent years as Trump’s most reliable congressional defender before resigning from Congress in January, told CNN International on April 15 that she has been “shocked and horrified” by his recent rhetoric. “I really think that his mental capacity needs to be examined,” she said.
And she is not alone in the new coalition of concern.
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Alex Jones, who spent years as one of Trump’s most enthusiastic media supporters, said during a March 31 episode of his program that GOP incumbents need to “cut the bait” on the president before the midterms.
“And he does babble and, you know, sound like the brain’s not doing too hot,” Jones said. This is the same Alex Jones a federal judge ordered to pay $1.4 billion to Sandy Hook families for claiming their murdered children were actors.
Presidential historian Matthew Dallek of George Washington University noted the obvious: “There’s something off if Alex Jones is calling you crazy.”
Candace Owens called Trump a “genocidal lunatic” on X on April 7 and echoed Democrats in calling for the 25th Amendment.
The 25th amendment needs to be invoked. He is a genocidal lunatic. Our Congress and military need to intervene. We are beyond madness. https://t.co/b60wlO4OuW
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 7, 2026
Ty Cobb, a former White House lawyer in Trump’s first term, said during a March 31 interview that the president is “clearly insane.” “These screeds that come out nightly… highlights the level of insanity and depravity,” Cobb said. “I think he’s gone.”
Former Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly have made similar assessments in recent weeks.
The trigger for much of the criticism was Trump’s Truth Social post during the height of the Iran conflict in which he wrote that “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Greene said: “25TH AMENDMENT!!!” The post that prompted a former MAGA firebrand to demand constitutional removal of the president she once defended unconditionally was written, according to the Wall Street Journal, without input from the national security team and improvised to make Trump seem unstable. It worked, apparently, on his own base.
Rep. Jamie Raskin introduced a bill with 50 Democratic co-sponsors to establish a Commission on Presidential Capacity, calling the situation “a dangerous precipice” and arguing it was “a matter of national security for Congress to fulfill its responsibilities under the 25th Amendment.” The White House called Raskin “a stupid person’s idea of a smart person.” The response did not address the substance of the concern.
Not everyone on the right is persuaded.
Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino dismissed the critics as grifters and declared: “No, it’s not 25th Amendment territory, you losers. It may be psychiatric, you know Baker Act time for you talking about it, but not for the president. I promise, he’s in a really good spot.”
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