Bandy X Lee and Sachs -- Letter to the Senate and the House Majority and Minority Leaders
Letter to the Senate and the House Majority and Minority Leaders Donald Trump Must be Removed from Access to Nuclear Weapons and from Military Powers Bandy X. Lee Apr 14, 2026 I wish to thank all those who have worked tremendously hard to try to get out my message to the four living former commanders-in-chief that Donald Trump must be removed from his access to nuclear weapons and his command of the planet’s most powerful military for mental health reasons—please continue to do so! In the meantime, economist and influential advisor of governments Jeffrey Sachs has helped me to send the same message to Congress (this is in addition to our statement of medical concerns that the U.S. Senate requested ): Dear Senate Majority Leader Thune, Senate Minority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and House Minority Leader Jeffries: We write to you today with a sense of urgency that we do not use lightly. The behavior and rhetoric of President Donald Trump have crossed a threshold th...