The employee claimed, via an extraordinary anonymous New York Times column, that early in Trump’s administration: “There were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president.
“But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis.
“So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until it’s over.”
The 25th Amendment can be used by the Vice President and a majority of Cabinet officials to remove the President if he “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”.
It was introduced in 1967, and has never been used.
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The employee also claimed that amongst the President’s team: “Many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
“I would know. I am one of them.
“Many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Trump’s most misguided impulses until he is out of office.”
The New York Times described the author as: “A senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardised by its disclosure.”
The author drew a stunning picture of daily life at the White House.
They claimed: “Senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s commands and actions.
“Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.
“Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions.”
The official added the President’s: “Impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.
“Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied nations.”
Trump hit back accusing what he described as the “failing” New York Times of publishing a “gutless editorial”.
He added: “Nobody is going to come close to beating me in 2020 because of what we’ve done.”
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders also published a statement describing the author as a coward, and demanding he or she resign, but did not deny that the piece could have been written by a White House insider.