Ex-White House doc calls for 'veto proof' bill to oust 'incapacitated' presidents

A former White House doctor has called for Congress to pass a bill that would make removing a president from office easier.

Jonathan Reiner, who served as former Vice President Dick Cheney's cardiologist, has been outspoken in his criticism of President Donald Trump over the last few months. Reiner has suggested in the past that Trump is in a cognitive decline and now feels there could be precedent for Congress to pass a bill to streamline the process for removing a president whose mental faculties are being questioned.

Reiner wrote, "I don’t think any cabinet, Republican or Democrat, would ever remove a president who is not obviously severely medically incapacitated.

"This is why Congress should pass a bill (it would likely have to be veto proof) that establishes a bipartisan and expert panel that periodically assesses presidential physical and mental fitness for office," he added. "The VP would have to concur with the panel before the president could be involuntarily removed from office."

Reiner has repeatedly criticized Trump for bragging about passing the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a basic 10-minute dementia screening tool that only requires identifying a camel and subtracting 7 from 100.

Reiner has also questioned the legitimacy of Trump's preventive MRI scan in October 2025, calling the White House's explanation "not plausible." He urged congressional investigation into Trump's presidential fitness, arguing that repeated cognitive testing suggests monitoring of an existing health condition rather than routine care.

Legal analyst Michael Popok also believes that Trump is showing signs of cognitive decline as he has struggled to correctly describe the dates and names of crucial moments from his first term in the Oval Office, and he cited a recent interview with Fox Business.

"Look what happens to Justice Ginsburg, she was not exactly a young woman," Trump told Maria Bartiromo. "You had a Democrat with the liberal justice, and the liberals to stick together they stick together like glue – not like the Republicans. She decided she would live forever and two minutes after the election she went out, and I got to appoint somebody."

Popok called this a sign that the president was losing his grasp on basic figures. He said, "The fact that he can't even get dates and names right is troubling. A sign of, let's be frank, mental decline.

"Let's take it this way - it wasn't like he shouldn't have been able to remember exactly when she [Ruth Bader Ginsburg] died. He gave what is considered to be one of the most famous, viral clips, when he was coming off an airplane the day she died... you think he'd remember it.