In other words the message to VP Pence is "you can be president, if you begin the 25 process". I suspect while probably tantalizing to VP Pence, he is by the book kind of guy. God, conservatism, party in that order ... I don;t know where Constitution or country fit .

2018 & 2020 are the only viable solutions to the insanity occupying the WH.

ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions