'The View' co-host demands 25th Amendment be used against Trump, suggests Cabinet could do it after midterms

Sunny Hostin casually tossing out the 25th Amendment on daytime TV tells you a lot about where our politics are right now. Not about Trump’s policies, not about a specific act of misconduct, but about finding the fastest procedural off-ramp to undo an election. And the detail that really sticks is the timing: wait until after the midterms, hope Republicans lose the House and Senate, then have the Cabinet do it. That isn’t concern for the country. That’s a political parlor game dressed up as constitutional hygiene.

The 25th Amendment exists for a president who can’t do the job because he’s genuinely incapacitated. Stroke. Coma. Severe cognitive impairment. It’s an emergency tool, not a remote control. When television hosts float it as a workaround for “we don’t like this guy,” they’re normalizing the idea that elections are provisional and that the real governing happens through back-channel pressure campaigns. If you’re wondering why so many voters feel like the rules change depending on who wins, listen to segments like this.

And it’s worth saying plainly: dragging the Cabinet into election-season hypotheticals is reckless. Cabinet officials aren’t supposed to be a shadow politburo waiting for the right polling data. They’re appointed to run agencies and advise the president, not to role-play a palace coup based on the next round of returns. The more this kind of talk spreads, the more every routine health check, every awkward sentence, every bad news cycle turns into “is this the moment,” and the country gets even jumpier and uglier.

We don’t need to pretend Trump has never given critics material, or that hardball politics is new. But there’s a line between arguing your case to voters and hinting that the president should be removed by a coordinated internal maneuver once the numbers look better. If “The View” wants to be an opposition war room, fine. Just don’t sell it as constitutional seriousness when it’s really about winning without persuading.