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April 2, 2026- by Steven Greer
I wrote this essay about Donald Trump’s mental decline rising to the level that would justify invocation of the 25th Amendment. However, let us set that aside for a moment. Even without the question of his cognitive fitness, Trump’s job performance has been so catastrophically bad that he should be asked to resign immediately, if not impeached and removed from office.
We should not be surprised. Trump has been incompetent since he was a teenager. His own father, Fred Trump, called him a “loser,” punished him severely, and sent him to military school to try to straighten him out. From there, Trump went on to bankrupt multiple companies and real-estate ventures, most notably his Atlantic City casinos and the Plaza Hotel. He also destroyed the United States Football League (USFL) by buying the New Jersey Generals and forcing the league to abandon its successful spring schedule to compete directly with the NFL in the fall. That reckless decision led to the league’s total collapse in 1986, costing investors millions and putting hundreds of players out of work. Despite having been handed a massive head start by his father’s fortune (and the deep state), he was never a self-made businessman. He was always a media-produced fraud whose image was carefully cultivated by public relations and television, not by genuine business success.
His incompetence is on full display in every major crisis he has faced. The emergency tariff situation he mishandled was erratic, unprofessional, and profoundly damaging to the economy. The fallout was so severe that the Supreme Court ultimately had to step in and strip him of key powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, No. 24-1287 (U.S. Feb. 20, 2026), the Court ruled 6-3 that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs, invalidating the sweeping emergency tariffs Trump had imposed on imports from Canada, Mexico, China, and most other trading partners. He reportedly destroyed half of the White House, likely while high on amphetamines, yet had no proper construction plan in place. Now a federal judge has halted the entire rebuilding effort because his administration still lacks any coherent blueprint. In Committee for the Preservation of the White House v. Trump, No. 1:26-cv-00456 (D.D.C. Mar. 15, 2026), the court issued a preliminary injunction halting all reconstruction work, ruling that the Trump administration had failed to submit any viable architectural, historical-preservation, or safety plan.
Trump allowed his Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, to engage in blatant grifting of hundreds of millions of dollars while carrying on a sexual relationship with Corey Lewandowski. This scandal single-handedly destroyed the entire effort to deport criminal illegal immigrants and gave ICE a black eye from which it may never recover. Meanwhile, his Department of Justice has been reduced to a laughingstock by design. Trump has intentionally surrounded himself with people who, according to official FBI documents, are proven co-conspirators with Jeffrey Epstein. Howard Lutnick still stands behind the desk in the Oval Office to this day, a constant visual reminder of the rot at the center of the administration.
Trump’s own inappropriate comments, which I detail throughout this essay, are impeachable on their face. For example, he told a female Bloomberg reporter “Quiet, piggy,” mocked a widower by saying his new wife was “stuck with a LOSER,” called a New York Times reporter “ugly, both inside and out,” labeled CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “Stupid and Nasty,” and twice mouthed “fuck you” while giving the middle finger to a Ford plant worker who called him a “pedophile protector.”
The economy has been in a job-losing recession for more than six months, yet he continues to flat-out lie about the jobs numbers. The war between Israel and Iran was a catastrophic failure with no strategy, no endgame, and no measurable success. Gas shortages are now worse than at any point in any previous crisis, hammering working families and exposing the administration’s total lack of energy policy. As a direct result, the popularity of the Republican Party has sunk to all-time lows.
To this already staggering record of failure, we must add Trump’s brazen personal grifting and outright theft from the American people. Far from separating his business interests from the presidency, Trump has transformed the Oval Office into a personal ATM. He launched the $TRUMP meme coin in January 2025, followed by Melania’s $MELANIA coin, the family’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture, Polymarket, and the crypto project owned by his sons, even Barron Trump has been drawn into the family’s grifting. These moves, paired with his administration’s aggressive pro-crypto policies, have allowed the Trump family to go from being broke hotel managers one year ago to being worth billions today while creating blatant conflicts of interest.
Trump has also been aggressively cashing in on artificial intelligence deals, cozying up to controversial figures like Sam Altman. His family has pursued lucrative real estate and investment deals with Arab states, including a $530 million Trump Tower in Jeddah, projects in Riyadh, Dubai, and Qatar, and massive investments such as a $2 billion infusion from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund into Jared Kushner’s firm and another $2 billion UAE-backed investment into World Liberty Financial. He even accepted a $400 million Boeing 747 from Qatar. Even Jared Kushner’s so-called ‘Board of Peace in Gaza’ became yet another vehicle for grifting, with millions funneled through opaque channels tied to his business interests while producing no meaningful progress toward stability.
These deals suspiciously align with U.S. foreign policy decisions and major investment pledges from Gulf states, raising serious questions about whether American policy is being sold to the highest bidder. Trump has shown himself to be an equal-opportunity grifter. He panders to Israeli interests as well, even at the expense of angering his own MAGA base.
The result is clear: Donald Trump is not governing. He is monetizing the presidency on a scale never before seen in American history.
How much more damage must be done? How many more scandals, lies, self-inflicted crises, and personal enrichment schemes will it take before Trump realizes he has no business in the Oval Office and does the only honorable thing left: resign?
The country cannot afford two more years of this. Trump’s performance has not simply been disappointing. It has been a rolling disaster that has weakened America at home and abroad while lining his own pockets.
The time for polite excuses is over. He must be asked to resign. If he refuses, Congress must impeach him. Anything less is an abdication of duty to the American people.