# Is it time to bring up the 25th Amendment again?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-bring-up-the-25th-amendment-again/841426>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 7, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-bring-up-the-25th-amendment-again/841426 "2019-10-07T16:47:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-bring-up-the-25th-amendment-again/841426/41 "2019-10-08T15:49:24Z")

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> [@Chad\_Sudan](#):
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> I thought the most disturbing part of that tweet was actually
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> “…if Turkey does anything that I… consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!).”
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> It just makes all U.S. diplomacy meaningless.

US diplomacy became meaningless around the time that he of the “great and unmatched wisdom” had personally insulted the leader of every major US ally at least once.

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**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-bring-up-the-25th-amendment-again/841426/42 "2019-10-08T17:02:59Z")

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> [@HurricaneDitka](#):
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> When the post I’m responding to starts out “I’m just trying to imagine the reaction if Obama had ever …” then Obama’s actions, and Dopers’ hypocritical reactions to them are not "Look! Over there!"s.

Did Obama tweet this out to the world? Or did he say it to one guy during a job interview? Because there’s a difference between the two.

Also, it’s a bit different watching Obama bragging about how smart he is because Obama actually _is_ smart. Watching Trump do it is like watching a morbidly obese guy flexing and taking selfies in front of a mirror going “Beefcake!” It’s more than a bit delusional.

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