California Governor Gavin Newsom posted five words on social media that tell you everything about where the Democratic Party's head is right now: "Donald Trump is mentally ill. TIME FOR THE 25TH!"

This is the same governor who presides over rolling blackouts, a collapsing water system, and streets that double as open-air drug markets.

Newsom's meltdown — his second 25th Amendment call this year, after a similar stunt back in July — was triggered by remarks President Trump made at a rally in Nebraska about Iran's nuclear ambitions. Trump, discussing the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, said: "They can take out a city. Let them take — let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay, and it's going to be over with very soon."

The context was obvious to anyone who watched the rally instead of clipping it. Trump was making the case for stopping Iran from ever having the ability to hit American cities with nuclear weapons. The White House rapid response team spelled it out: "No, he didn't, you buffoons. He was saying the U.S. is fighting to STOP Iran from having the ability to take out LA and San Diego with a nuclear weapon."

Newsom ignored the clarification entirely. Instead, he escalated. "After sending the National Guard and Marines to occupy California, Donald Trump is now saying our foreign enemies should 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego," Newsom posted. "He is deranged and dangerous." He followed up by scolding Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, writing: "The SILENCE from JD Vance and Marco Rubio today is deafening."

He wasn't alone. Sunny Hostin on ABC's "The View" floated the same 25th Amendment language within hours, calling Trump "deranged" and suggesting it "might be time." The coordination wasn't subtle.

Newsom's complaint about the National Guard and Marines is worth pausing on. Federal troops were deployed to California because California's own government refused to enforce federal law. The governor who wouldn't secure his own border is now outraged that someone else did it for him. That's not a constitutional crisis. That's a performance review.

The 25th Amendment requires the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unable to discharge the duties of office. Vance and Rubio aren't returning Newsom's calls. The Cabinet isn't holding emergency meetings. The mechanism Newsom is invoking doesn't work the way he's pretending it works — and he knows that. This isn't a legal argument. It's a press release.

What Newsom conspicuously didn't address in any of his posts: the 450,000 children who went missing under the previous administration's border policies, the fentanyl crisis ravaging his own state, or the fact that California's population has been shrinking for four consecutive years as residents flee to states with functional governance.

Newsom called for the 25th Amendment in July. Nothing happened. He's calling for it again in October. The rally he's quoting was about preventing nuclear war. The amendment he's invoking requires people who work for Trump to remove Trump.

His own constituents are moving to Texas.