Trump Is 'Decompensating in Real Time,' Niece Claims as She Calls for 25th Amendment After Posting Spree

Donald Trump's niece has accused the US president of unravelling before the public's eyes, declaring he is 'decompensating in real time' — a clinical term she applies to his public conduct — after a bizarre weekend flood of AI-generated Truth Social posts.

Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and long-standing critic of her uncle, renewed her call for the 25th Amendment to be invoked following the 80-year-old's Labor Day posting spree.

The outburst, which spanned more than 37 posts, included AI imagery of Trump piloting a spaceship, commanding a robot army and claiming ownership of the moon. Her remarks reignited a debate that has trailed Trump's second term over his mental and physical fitness for office.

The Posting Spree That Sparked Alarm

Trump spent several hours on Sunday flooding his Truth Social account with AI-generated images. The images depicted him trading stocks from the Resolute Desk, dropping bombs from a Space Force space station and superimposing his own silhouette onto a map of Iran.

Other posts showed him on horseback towering over George Washington, wearing the body of the late wrestler Hulk Hogan, and unveiling a new Space Force uniform.

That uniform, critics noted, closely resembled the Galactic Empire's costumes from Star Wars, a comparison Trump himself invited by describing it as 'inspired by the discipline and functionality of the Starship Trooper uniform', a reference to the 1997 film. (Director Paul Verhoeven has described those uniforms as an ironic depiction of fascism.)

Elsewhere in the spree, Trump proposed renaming New Mexico 'New America'. Commentator Jonah Goldberg dryly noted on X that 'the president can't rename a state.'

'Decompensating in Real Time': Mary Trump's Diagnosis From Afar

It was the AI-generated map of Iran, its orientation flipped and shaped into Trump's profile, that prompted Mary Trump's intervention. 'Donald is decompensating in real time, just look at the insanity he's posted on social media today,' she wrote on X, accompanying the post with a screenshot of the image.

She went further, tying the president's conduct directly to Republican inaction. 'By refusing to invoke the 25th Amendment, Republicans prove once again that they are willing to ignore the Constitution to protect him at our expense,' she said.

Others agreed. Democratic influencer Harry Sisson catalogued the posts chronologically before concluding, 'This man is unwell. 25th Amendment NOW.' The accounts Call to Activism and Republicans Against Trump issued similar demands, with the latter writing, 'Trump is absolutely losing it. 25th Amendment now.'

A Pattern of Concern, Not a New Claim

Mary Trump's latest broadside is consistent with years of public warnings about her uncle's health. She first called for the 25th Amendment's invocation in January 2021, telling the Observer in the dying days of Trump's first term that he was 'unstable' and 'needs to be removed immediately'.

She repeated the diagnosis this year in an interview with Jim Acosta, describing what she characterised as 'accelerating cognitive and emotional decline'.

Other Trump-world veterans have echoed the concern: Ty Cobb, formerly White House counsel under Trump, told The Jim Acosta Show that the administration's cabinet 'will not invoke the 25th Amendment for a man who is clearly insane' — a description he attributed to Trump's late-night social media posts.

Why the 25th Amendment Is Unlikely To Be Invoked

Constitutional experts note that invoking the amendment against a sitting, physically active president remains exceptionally difficult.

Section four requires the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare the president unable to discharge his duties, a threshold unmet even after the January 2021 Capitol riot, when Trump faced impeachment rather than removal via the amendment.

With JD Vance as vice president and a cabinet of Trump loyalists including Pam Bondi and Pete Hegseth, analysts regard removal as politically implausible regardless of the online furore.

Even if triggered, Trump could contest the move by declaring himself fit, forcing a two-thirds vote in both chambers of Congress to sustain it.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Mary Trump's claims. For now, her warnings remain a symbolic rebuke rather than a legal mechanism with any realistic chance of success.