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Section 4: says that only the Vice President or the Cabinet can initiate Section 4 of the 25th Amendment and there in lies the rub.

Following Trump's Iran social media post, could the 25th Amendment be invoked against him?

Trump wrote on Truth Social, spelling out the f-word: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.

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Section 4: says that only the Vice President or the Cabinet can initiate Section 4 of the 25th Amendment and there in lies the rub. Following Trump's Iran social media post, could the 25th Amendment be invoked against him? Trump wrote on Truth Social, spelling out the f-word: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.

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However, there might be another way around the roadblock, and that is Congress cannot initiate Section 4 itself, but the text does allow Congress to create another body by law that could participate in the...
Chris Murphy, D-Conn., wrote on X, "If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment.
Yassamin Ansari of Arizona and Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico also called for using the amendment to remove Trump.

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PolitiFact By Amy Sherman & Louis Jacobson April 6, 2026 President Donald Trump's profanity-laced Easter Sunday social media post threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran led some Democratic lawmakers to call for his removal via the 25th Amendment. He's going to kill thousands more." Other Democrats including U.S. It is JD Vance and the Cabinet who can only initiate a "25"!

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