President Donald J. Trump shrugged off the idea that the Democrats will once again begin impeachment proceedings against him if they retake control of the House.
With the midterms now just over a month away, the impeachment party is licking its chops as polls and pundits are all predicting that voters will hand the Speaker’s gavel to Hakeem Jeffries, who will wield it like the mighty Thor’s hammer.
But the veteran of a pair of already failed impeachments doesn’t seem to be worried, dismissing the inevitable Dem revenge as he departed the White House for a rally in Alabama on Friday.
NEW: President Trump jokes about the prospect of impeachment No. 3 after @pdoocy reminds him he’s already been through it twice.
DOOCY: “You’ve already been impeached twice, so what’s a third time?”
TRUMP: “Well, I don’t know, but I’m getting good at it.”
The president then… pic.twitter.com/1y8ykLs7rF
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 2, 2026
“You’ve already been impeached twice, so what’s a third time?” Trump was asked by Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy.
“Well, I don’t know, but I’m getting good at it,” the president responded.
“It’s a fake impeachment, and we could’ve done that with Sleepy Joe, but we didn’t do it because it wouldn’t have been appropriate,” Trump added.
“I could’ve done that with Hillary Clinton, as you know. I had the chance to do it if I wanted, and I said, ‘That would be inappropriate, but with me, they like to do it,” he told Doocy and the rest of the press who gathered to see him off.
A remedy for very serious high crimes and misdemeanors set up by the Founding Fathers, impeachments were extremely rare until spiteful former Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided that it would be a useful political tool to stick it to Trump, a man whom she clearly loathed.
Trump was first impeached in 2019 over a “perfect phone call” with Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but it didn’t have nearly enough votes in the Senate to convict and remove him from office on the obviously trumped-up charges in which recently defeated Florida Senate hopeful Alexander Vindman played a key role.
Undeterred by their failure, Pelosi and the gang impeached him again – this time in January 2021, when he was set to leave office – over the so-called “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol. It also failed in the Senate 57–43, way short of the 67 votes needed to convict, which would have likely disqualified Trump from ever holding elected political office again.
It’s uncertain whether the Democrats will be willing to spend their political capital on another impeachment of Trump that will almost certainly be futile. Instead, they may choose to focus on lower-hanging fruit like Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and other members of the administration who have drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle.
But there are those in the House caucus who are clamoring for another Trump impeachment, hoping that the third time will be the charm. And Jeffries hasn’t taken the option off the table.
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