Pelosi calls for Cabinet to invoke 25th Amendment on Trump over Iran remarks

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Source: The Hill

04/07/26 6:08 PM ET


Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday urged members of President Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and hand his powers to the vice president over his remarks about wiping out Iran’s civilization. If the Cabinet is unwilling to take that action, Pelosi said Republicans in the House and Senate should move to end the Iran war.

“Donald Trump’s instability is more clear and dangerous than ever,” Pelosi wrote in a post on social platform X. “If the Cabinet is not willing to invoke the 25th Amendment and restore sanity, Republicans must reconvene the Congress to end this war,” she added.

Pelosi previously said the 25th Amendment should be invoked against Trump during his first term, touting support from other lawmakers. Her recent comments fall in line with other House Democrats who have warned Trump’s plans to bomb infrastructure in Iran and threat to wipe out a “whole civilization” if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened would constitute war crimes against civilians if they were carried out.

The 25th Amendment allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to vote and declare a president “unable to discharge” their powers and duties, and then would give the vice president the active duties of the presidency. If the president objected, it would go to a vote of Congress, which would need a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and Senate to concur.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5820539-pelosi-urges-25th-amendment/

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1. Pelosi's timing is impeccable as usual

Keep the pressure on Republicans. They will likely do nothing, but the more noise we make, the more Republicans own the consequences. They are being given their last golden opportunity to step back into political reality, and for the good of the country. Will they take it? No. They are under Trump's thumb, inside the MAGA Cult of Lunacy.

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2. As a parallel "blast from the past" -

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142661827
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142663009
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142669202

and things are infinitely worse now.

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3. Pelosi is an actual Catholic unlike Vance

The Pope asked the American people to reach out to congress yesterday and end this war.

[redstatebluegirl]

4. I wish Nancy was still Speaker.

Trump was terrified of that tiny powerhouse in high heels!

[ultralite001]

5. About damn time...

Pelosi gave Krasnov what for…

May she succeed in toppling his house of cards…

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Deadline Legal Blog-How the 25th Amendment would work against Trump amid his Iran belligerence

Like in the impeachment process, the Republican-controlled Congress has a role to play.

How the 25th Amendment would work against Trump amid his Iran belligerence

https://www.europesays.com/iran/56326/

Politically diverse voices have raised the prospect of using the 25th Amendment to sideline President Donald Trump as he brings us to the brink…

— EUROPE SAYS (@europesays.bsky.social) 2026-04-07T20:32:05+00:00

https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/how-25th-amendment-would-work-trump-iran

Whatever the likelihood of such a move, you might wonder: How would that constitutional process play out?

Section 4 of the amendment gives the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet (or another body designated by Congress) the power to declare that the president “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” If such a declaration is made here, then Vice President JD Vance would, as the amendment says, “immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”

But that would not end the matter. Section 4, which has never been invoked, goes on to give the president the power to then tell Congress that he’s able to serve. In that case, he regains the office unless the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet (or another body designated by Congress) say he’s unable to serve. If that happens, then it’s up to Congress to decide, with the amendment requiring a two-thirds vote in both chambers, that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” If Congress makes that determination, the vice president continues acting as president; otherwise, the president resumes serving.

So, although the initial action can come from the White House, Congress ultimately has a role to play, and Republicans control both chambers. ....

Therefore, like the 25th Amendment, impeachment leaves the fate of the country to a Republican party and congressional majority that has been subservient to this president.

trump will NOT be removed under the 25th Amendment. Vance and the cabinet will not remove trump and if they did there is no way that two-thirds of both the Senate and House would support this if trump challenges this removal.

There may some political benefit in trying to shame Vance and the cabinet into invoking the 25th Amendment but I believe that Vance and the assholes in trump's cabinet are immune to shame