Trump Calls For Jeffries Impeachment After Supreme Court Remarks — Trump Comments On Hakeem Jeffries
Donald Trump said Hakeem Jeffries should be impeached after the House minority leader said the Supreme Court was illegitimate, escalating trump comments on hakeem jeffries on Sunday night. Trump made the demand in a Truth Social post and repeated Jeffries’ words back at him.
Trump also wrote that he had been impeached for “A PERFECT PHONE CALL,” a reference to his 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He asked Republicans, “Where are you Republicans?” and added, “Why not get it started? They’ll be doing this to me!”
Trump’s Truth Social post
In the post, Trump called Jeffries a “Low IQ individual” and wrote, “Hakeem Jeffries, a Low IQ individual, said our Supreme Court is ‘illegitimate,‘” followed by, “After saying such a thing, isn’t he subject to Impeachment?”
Trump’s attack came after Jeffries said the court was illegitimate following a 6-3 ruling that struck down Louisiana’s congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Jeffries said the ruling was “designed to undermine the ability of communities of color all across this country to elect their candidate of choice.”
Jeffries and the court ruling
Jeffries also said the court “isn’t even really the Roberts Court” but rather “the Trump Court.” He said, “What we would expect from the Trump Court is an effort to continue their scheme to suppress the vote and rig the midterm elections and beyond.”
Trump had already attacked Jeffries on Apr. 30, writing that Jeffries “just called the Supreme Court of the United States an illegitimate Court!” and telling him to withdraw the statement immediately. In April, Jeffries told MeidasTouch Network’s Scott MacFarlane that Trump was “unhinged, he’s out of control, and this is not presidential behavior or anything close to it.”
House rules for impeachment
House members cannot be impeached. They can be expelled from Congress by a two-thirds vote, which means Trump’s demand does not match the procedure that applies to members of the House.
Trump later posted a photo of Jeffries holding a baseball bat without comment. Jeffries had originally posted the photo on Instagram in July 2025 with the caption, “Protecting your healthcare is as American as baseball, motherhood and apple pie,” and posted the same image on Facebook with the caption, “House Democrats will keep the pressure on Trump’s One Big Ugly Bill.”
The clash now sits at the point where Trump’s call for punishment meets a House rule that does not allow impeachment of its members, leaving expulsion as the only removal path named in the facts.
