What To Do When Your President Is Unfit To Lead
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Transcript
Hi it’s Wednesday, January 21, 2026, you’re tuned into Why, America? I’m Leeja Miller. This morning, Trump gave an address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. That address, riddled with lies and the ramblings of a mad king, combined with his speech yesterday celebrating 365 wins in 365 days as president, which also featured an hour and 45 minutes of largely incoherent ramblings and lies, as well as the absolutely bat shit cuckoo bananas “letter” he sent to the Prime Minister of Norway about Greenland, which we talked about on Monday you can watch that episode after this, and his middle of the night ramblings on Truth Social, all of that combined indicates to me and also to a number of leaders that Trump is actually off his fucking rocker and not fit to serve as president. Today we’re discussing the latest evidence of our president’s mental decline as well as what actual mechanisms exist for getting him off the throne.
First, to Davos Switzerland today where the World Economic Forum is underway and Trump gave a headlining speech that meandered for over an hour, oftentimes calling out and mocking some of our closest allies including France and the UK. He touted the “economic miracle” he has brought to the US, ridiculed Europe for focusing on renewable energy, saying wind turbines are only for stupid people, mocked French president Emmanuel Macron for allegedly begging Trump to back down on tariffs and his threats related to lowering pharmaceutical costs in the US, something the French president denies doing, claimed that quote “Canada lives because of the United States” and also promised that he wouldn’t resort to using force in order to “take back Greenland” claiming we actually owned it during world war II and made the stupid decision back then to “give it back” to Denmark after we assisted with its defense when Denmark was invaded by Hitler. Afterwards, he took a couple questions and sat for an interview with Borge Brende, president and CEO of the World Economic Forum. Throughout his speech and interview, the audience laughed along and Brende treated Trump as though the shit he just spouted was like a normal thing for the most powerful man in the world to do, kowtowing to his ego the same way his cabinet does. And this is just a small indication to you what the World Economic Forum in Davos is all about.
Starting in the 1970s, the World Economic Forum has hosted this event in the ski village of Davos Switzerland every year to bring global businesses together. It has grown to encompass a wide range of issues every year and brings together not only major businesses but also heads of state and financial bodies to discuss global issues. A piece by the New York Times titled “AI, Big Tech, and Trump Shine Most Brightly at the Davos Spectacle” sums up well how the vibes have shifted at the conference this year, indicating that the world leaders and its largest businesses are embracing the new Trumpian world order. Where past years saw numerous panels and popular discussions about DEI, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability in the face of global climate change, this year they have entirely dropped the pretense that big business gives two shits about regular people. Instead, the conference is dominated by the world’s largest AI tech companies. As the New York Times article put it, quote “The high-minded panel discussions about climate change, caring for refugees and the future of health care were there to be heard in lesser venues. But the action was dominated by technology giants and their euphoria over the lucrative potential of the moment.”
The article ends by explicitly tying Trump’s ethos to the new behavior of big businesses across the globe. Quote ““Most of these C.E.O.s are focused on nurturing values for their shareholders,” said Mr. Newman, the Futurum Group chief executive. “They have grown bullish that he’ll move policy, cut through the red tape.”
The tech executives he works with once talked about diversity, equity and inclusion along with climate sustainability. Not anymore. They have adopted the guise of the American president.
“Part of being a great C.E.O. is being a chameleon,” Mr. Newman explained. “Trump is the most influential voice in the world right now. These C.E.O.s are pleased to be in an environment that’s largely right for business.”” So just in case you forgot that big businesses don’t give a fuck about you, please remember that the SECOND Trump made it okay to drop the charade, places like Target and elsewhere dropped DEI and other “corporate social responsibility” buzzwords and embraced no longer having to lie through their teeth. Even with the unrest Trump’s tariffs and geopolitical missteps have caused, from a falling dollar to increased expenses for businesses, corporate giants are fucking thrilled he’s in power and will continue cozying up to him however they can.
But that’s big business, we kinda already knew that they don’t give a shit about us. Governments and heads of state around the world have the opportunity to take a different approach. And there was at least one voice yesterday at Davos that attempted to do just that.
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Yesterday, Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, gave a speech that presented truly a different vision of what the world might do in the face of Trump’s growing strongman tyranny. He didn’t mention Trump by name once, but the message was clear. And after watching Trump’s “speeches” today and yesterday let me just say it was incredibly jarring to watch Carney’s speech, because I’ve forgotten what proper diplomacy looks like, how a functioning head of state is supposed to speak. I think we’ve truly all lost touch with what we’re supposed to expect from a head of state after a decade of Trump normalizing whatever the fuck bumbling bullshit he does whenever he’s in front of a camera, and even Biden before him whose speeches were barely coherent and painful to watch. Unlike Trump whose speech meandered for over an hour and said mostly nothing, Carney’s speech was a short 15 minutes and to the point.
In it he says that the international rules based order that came out of World War II was partially based on falsehoods–that some governments received asymmetrical treatment and the most powerful could exempt themselves at any time from the rules as they applied to everyone else. And that world order has ruptured. [“more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.
You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”] He says that while it is understandable for countries to see this instability and try to build up their own reserves and build higher walls through tariffs and other measures, that a different world order is possible, led by what he calls “Middle powers” countries like Canada. He highlights the new alliances Canada is forming, ones that exclude the United States. He calls for what’s known as “variable geometry” something Dr Heather Cox Richardson described in her livestream last night as akin to how the EU functions–where states that care about issues can work together on those issues and coalitions can form and change depending on the issues each state cares about, so it’s less about one major power imposing its will or a binary of democracy versus communism and more about figuring out how countries with varying values and goals can work peacefully together. [This is not naive multilateralism, nor is it relying on their institutions. It's building coalitions that work – issues by issue, with partners who share enough common ground to act together.
In some cases, this will be the vast majority of nations.
What it's doing is creating a dense web of connections across trade, investment, culture, on which we can draw for future challenges and opportunities.
Argue, the middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu.] Basically, Carney is proposing a world order in which the United States is cut out and where strength comes from strategic alliances that don’t include us at all.
[But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what's offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating.
This is not sovereignty. It's the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination. In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice – compete with each other for favour, or to combine to create a third path with impact.
We shouldn't allow the rise of hard power to blind us to the fact that the power of legitimacy, integrity and rules will remain strong, if we choose to wield them together. … The powerful have their power.
But we have something too – the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home and to act together.”]
Carney’s speech was met with a standing ovation and presents a clear path forward for countries that aren’t the US to band together and find strength that way. It’s a world order that simply doesn’t include the US at all. And Carney’s speech stood in stark contrast to Trump’s blathering the next day. Which is why I wanted to include clips of Carney’s speech because again I think as Americans we’ve forgotten what it sounds like when a head of state has a grasp of his faculties and of the English language. Not that Carney is above reproach, but it offered a hopeful way forward for the countries that are currently scrambling to know how to respond to Trump, and that way forward also stood in strong contrast to the reception Trump received from big business and big tech and the billionaires who are quick to adopt Trumpian strongman tactics and drop the whole DEI act. Which offers us as economic actors a similar option to Carney’s proposition of a new world order. On the one hand, Trumpian rhetoric has opened Pandora’s box wherein big business has no reason not to monopolize as much as possible while degrading the quality of products and services it offers and collecting all of our data and decimating the earth in the process. On the other hand, we all knew that the whole “DEI” and “corporate social responsibility” initiatives in corporate america were fake. Now at least we can drop the pretense and have a real conversation about how we fit into the equation for big business and tech giants and billionaires. They need us. They want us to give them our data, to give them our money for shittier and shittier products and services, and they know we will continue to do so because it’s the status quo. And yet there is a way forward, one that focuses on community-driven economics–buying local from small businesses, bartering and trade, sharing resources within your hyperlocal community and opting out of big business wherever possible. There is power in opting out of the global economic system that victimizes us. As the world feels scarier and crazier, it is completely understandable to have the urge to live off the grid alone in a farm with a bunker where you’re completely self sustained, an island of one. But the reality is that we are truly stronger and better together. You are at a disadvantage when you build up walls and isolate as opposed to connecting with your community where there are members that have skills and resources you do not. Maybe it’s a lefty pipe-dream, but in Carney’s speech I also saw a glimmer of an economic order where we cut out big business, band together to create community and just opt out of giving them our money or our data. That includes AI. The models have already been trained on pretty much all the data that exists in the world–future models need us to continue to engage with them and give them our data in order to improve. We don’t have to give it to them. We don’t have to give Amazon our money in order to get lightning fast shipping. Given the current monopolization of our economy in this country it’s nearly impossible to COMPLETELY opt out of all big business, but there is a world where we band together to figure out how to opt out as much as possible. That’s why things like this Friday’s economic blackout here in Minnesota to protest ICE are so important. Not because a single day of economic boycotting is going to change the world. But because it shows us and the world how powerful and united we are. It shows the ruptures in the world order it says we’re not okay with it and it makes it more acceptable for others to follow suit. They see how many people do not agree with it and they think oh maybe I can stand up against this, too.
So even though the United States would likely be hurt in a world order where we’re cut out of treaties and agreements and economic alliances and more, it’s an exciting prospect that there could be a world where one imperial monopolistic monolith can’t just throw its weight around at the expense of everyone else.
Meanwhile we’re stuck with this absolute fucking dunce of a president. Yesterday, ahead of his trip to Switzerland, Trump gave a speech celebrating 365 wins in 365 days where he touted such infamous lies as “gas is $1.99” (no it’s not), he’s going to slash drug prices by 600% (you literally can’t do that because math exists. If you’ve ever clipped a coupon you know that 100% off means something is free. You can’t make something 600% off.) He solved 8 wars (no he didn’t). He inherited the worst inflation in history and now there is no inflation (he inherited 3% inflation from Biden and now it is 2.7%). And on and on. And this was after he spent the first half hour doing show and tell with pictures of alleged criminals that had been arrested in the ICE operations here in Minnesota. The stark contrast of his performance with other heads of state, his incoherent ramblings, his clear statement to the Prime Minister of Norway that he wants Greenland because he didn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize, his endless ramblings on Truth Social, it all adds up to the fact that this man is unfit to be president. Period. He cannot fulfill his duties in office. He is incapable of fully appreciating the consequences of his actions as the leader of the formerly most powerful country on earth.
So, what can be done about it? Some Democratic lawmakers are calling for removing Trump and invoking the 25th Amendment. At this point I don’t even know why people are bringing it up, frankly. The 25th Amendment provides that the President can be removed due to incapacity, but it requires that a majority of his cabinet AND his Vice President determine he is incapacitated and write a letter to Congress saying as much, then Congress votes on his removal. That ain’t fuckin’ happening. Have you seen the cabinet meetings? It’s a room full of spineless brown nosers, and that’s very much on purpose. There is no one in that cabinet, let alone enough to invoke the 25th Amendment, who would stand up and say hey yeah Trump actually isn’t fit to be president. It’s just not happening.
The next option is impeachment, again that ain’t happening. There aren’t enough votes in either the house or the senate to impeach and then remove him. There might be after these midterms, and Trump knows that, which is why we should NOT discount the steps he might take to do everything in his power to ensure that the midterms come out positively for him, no matter what the actual vote tallies say. Impeachment is available if a president commits treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, which has been interpreted to include actions that make it clear he is unfit to perform his duties or does not possess the moral character to do so. You can’t throw a rock without hitting an impeachable offense committed during the last year. The actions are there, the evidence is there, it is just the political will in Congress that isn’t there. It’s just not going to happen.
And then finally there’s resignation. Dr. Heather Cox Richardson mentioned this as well in her livestream last night, let me just acknowledge that, I’m not stealing her ideas but her videos always give me so much to think about. She spoke about Nixon and how he was removed from office not through an official process but instead because he was convinced to resign by his cabinet and influential members of Congress. On top of that, his cabinet was falling left and right under the weight of the Watergate scandal, and the level of resignations created weakness that made it clear the walls were closing in on him as well. Again, that simply isn’t going to happen under the current realities in this country. Even if we finally get all the Epstein files and it’s really clear that Trump engaged in such heinous acts that no one could pretend he had the moral character that made him fit for office–some clear cut smoking gun akin to the Nixon tapes, it still wouldn’t be enough. In 1974 when Nixon resigned, he was a Republican president and Congress was controlled by Democrats. Currently, Congress is controlled by sycophantic Republicans that have proven completely unwilling and incapable of standing up to Trump. Ditto for his cabinet. Despite calls for Kristi Noem to be impeached and removed, the likelihood of that happening is, again, pretty much nil, and there are too many people around the president and in Congress that are protecting him, apologizing for him, and willing to go along with anything he says no matter what, there is no scenario where anyone would be able to convince him to resign. Unless, again, Democrats take back control of Congress, which Trump knows, which is why I am growing increasingly convinced that the midterm elections will not be free and fair and their outcome will not be honored by this administration or the Republicans who control Congress. Mike Johnson gave us a preview when he refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva of Arizona for months. I cannot predict how things will unfold but there is no way with Trump’s current abysmal approval ratings, and the dislike many Americans feel for his Greenland ambitions and for the lack of disclosure of the Epstein files, there’s no way Republicans are going into the midterms feeling confident. And so they are going to have to resort to illegal tactics to maintain control, and I think they will do just that.
So, no, Trump isn’t going anywhere until he finally succumbs to the cold grip of death. In the meantime, as I say in every episode, we have to cling to the hope of a new world order. There’s not much we can do on the global scale akin to Carney’s vision of a variable geometry future, but we have so much agency over our hyperlocal community. Minnesota is proving just that. Whether it’s participating in protests or donating money or dropping food off for neighbors that can’t leave the house or trading skills and services or exchanging items on your local buy nothing facebook group or starting a little free library or pantry in your front yard or organizing a free store for your community or even just deleting social media and canceling your Amazon prime subscription there are ways big and small that we can push for a society that has opted out of the current economic order, seeing big business for what it is: a bully that will take everything it can get from us and the earth, exclusively to our detriment. Day in and day out we must continue to hold onto that hope and that vision, despite the horrors.
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And if you liked this episode, you’ll like my episode from Monday about what the fuck is going on with Greenland.
