Responding to President Donald Trump’s recent megaphone diplomacy, Democratic critics seized on the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, under which the Cabinet or Congress may remove a chief executive if he’s incapable of discharging the duties of his office.

None of those brandishing this constitutional club at him genuinely thought Trump could be removed — Vice President JD Vance would have to agree — but they wanted something extreme to say while they stood in the warm glow of TV lights, and the 25th Amendment came readily to hand.