Former Trump Lawyer Ty Cobb Declares President Unfit

In an interview with The i Paper, former White House special counsel Ty Cobb said Donald Trump’s “mental condition has deteriorated substantially” and that the 79-year-old president is “unfit to serve.” Cobb called the second term “scary and dystopian,” linking Trump’s behavior during the war on Iran—launched with Israel on 28 February—to a “real crisis” for the United States.

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Cobb served as Trump’s White House special counsel in 2017, meeting the president daily from an office beneath the Oval Office. He says that during the first term officials such as former chief of staff Gen. John Kelly and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley would push back on illegal requests, a restraint he says no longer exists. He calls current officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and former attorney general Pam Bondi, a “kakistocracy.”

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The discussion involves Donald Trump, Ty Cobb, White House spokesman Davis Ingle, and Representative Jamie Raskin, who sent a letter demanding a neurological exam for the president.

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• Trump is 79, the oldest person ever inaugurated as U.S. president.

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• A recent poll shows 32 % approval, the lowest level since Jimmy Carter’s term.

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White House spokesman Davis Ingle dismissed Cobb’s claims as partisan, labeling them a “severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome” and urging Cobb to seek psychiatric help. Ingle defended Trump’s “sharpness, unmatched energy, and historic accessibility.”

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Cobb accuses Trump of “revenge, corruption, delusions of grandeur and alleged abuses of power,” linking them to a “long-running malignant narcissism.” He cites a 4 a.m. threat of war crimes and a social-media warning that “a whole civilisation will die tonight” if a peace-talk deadline passed. He calls the administration a “kakistocracy” and says the United States is “governed by a madman at this stage.”

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• “We’re in a real crisis here in the US,” — Ty Cobb, former White House counsel

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• “Now you have grifters and sycophants and that is not a minor deviation from norms: it’s unprecedented in American history.” — Ty Cobb

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• “we’re governed by a madman at this stage, there’s no other way to put it” — Ty Cobb

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• “In a statement to The i Paper, the White House spokesman Davis Ingle said: “Ty Cobb should immediately seek psychiatric help to treat his severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.” — Davis Ingle, White House spokesman

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Representative Jamie Raskin’s letter seeks a comprehensive neurological exam, potentially triggering a formal inquiry. Cobb’s statements have spurred renewed calls from some lawmakers for legislative or constitutional measures to address presidential fitness, while the White House maintains that Trump remains capable of governing.

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