Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Election Tantrum Sparks 25th Amendment Demand

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

Trump’s calls to violate the 22nd Amendment and serve a third term as president could collide with the 25th Amendment, as Americans pressure the VP and Trump’s Cabinet to vote to find that Trump��s deranged and unhinged acts, including in Iran, warrant his removal as president. Popok explains. SmartCredit: Go to https://SmartCredit.com/legalaf and start your 7-day trial for just $1. Subscribe:  @LegalAFMTN  Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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his rogue unconstitutional violations. You can set all that aside for a minute. All you've got to look is the Iranian war and how he's conducting it to see that the commander in chief needs to be relieved of his duties. I feel like I'm watching the cane mutiny, and I'm waiting for somebody to tap Humphrey Bogart on the shoulder and take him out of his command position. That would be the majority of the cabinet. As Donald Trump does two things, I'll just use two examples for this hot take. His continued flirtation with constitutional disaster in demanding that he get a third term or some part of a third term beyond 2028 and stay in office, the fact that he either believes that or doesn't really believe that, and I'll show you video clips indicating both, but the fact that

he keeps talking about it to try to make himself not lame duck at the midterms demonstrates that you know, the executive function is checked out. And the fact that his supporters believe it as well is also an indication that he is disabled and should be removed from office under the 25th Amendment. Then just look at what he's doing in Iran. I mean, every other hour, it's another erratic decision with no planning and no forethought by Donald Trump.

I mean, we'll go over it here on this hot take, but just in the last 24 hours. First, he said, I'm going to start bombing, meaning I'm going to start committing war crimes by bombing civilian electrical plants. That's a war crime. And he said it in a social media post. I'm going to start bombing in 48 hours unless there's an immediate unblockading of the Strait of Harmuz through which 27% of the world's gas and oil flows by Iran. And then 24 hours later or less in a typo-ridden second posting, on social media. That's what I love. I love a government, a superpower being run by social media

postings. He then says, again, replete with typos that he's had some constructive conversations, or somebody has, with the Iranians, and therefore he's not going to be doing the war crimes that he threatened. Oh, I feel much better now. 25th Amendment, anybody? Let's go over the 22nd versus the 25th amendment here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. I am Michael Popak. All right. 22nd Amendment says that nobody can be elected to the presidency more than twice. Came out after FDR, got four terms, he died in his fourth term, and Republicans weren't happy about that. So, let's be frank. So they posted a, they got a constitutional amendment passed for two terms only for a president.

Okay. Elected. Now that's the tricky little word in the 22nd Amendment. They are going to allow somebody to serve an additional two years if he also or she also, let's say, took over from the vice president position. Let's say a president died. They get two years and then they get two more terms. But if like president gets elected like McKinley and dies 34 days into office and the vice president

takes over for the remainder almost four years, that president's not going to be able to do two more elected terms because there's a cap. of a total of 10 years in the 22nd Amendment. So I've heard all of these speculations by Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's consultant and coup plotter during January 2020, that maybe J.D. It'll be like a stalking horse, like Trojan horse, J.D. Vance or Mark Arrubio will run.

They'll go through the effort of becoming president. Donald Trump will be their vice president, and then they'll suddenly, like, on day one, turn it over to president. Trump. Ha-ha. That doesn't work. It could work for two years. I think there'd be a lot of constitutional challenges to that gaming of the system under the Constitution if somebody were to do that. And I got news for Donald Trump. I don't think J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio or anybody else is going to go through the time, money, and effort and stress of running for presidency just to turn it over

to Donald Trump. And if that was a conspiracy to do that in advance, I think there'd be something about the Supreme Court. Some things Supreme Court would have to weigh in on related to that if you know what I mean. Okay. Yet that hasn't stopped Donald Trump in the last 24 to 48 hours to continue to talk about getting a third term. Here's a posting that he did related to that, where, you know, some trolling group called Women for Trump or whatever. must be a very small group, posted third term to compensate Trump for a stolen election. I mean, who is really out there that thinks that Joe Biden stole an election? How?

With what? There was no voter fraud that was outcome determinative. There was no Venezuelan software that was flipping votes from Trump to Biden. Trump lost, okay? It may have been aberrational because it was 20, and it was coming off of COVID and Joe Biden campaign from a bunker in his house. But he won, okay? Plain and simple.

Probably had to do with people not being happy with Donald Trump after Jan 6th and leading an insurrection. Yet there's these numb nuts out there that talk about Trump won. And he should be given a third term to compensate for the fact that he won. No, that's not how the 22nd Amendment runs. at best he could run his vice president and if somewhere along the way he could serve two more years and that's it now we turn to the erratic behavior and the 25th amendment let's just use Iran for a minute again I'm putting aside his role in a child

sex trafficking two sex traffickers one in one indicted convicted the other one indicted and died and his role in that in use of the Department of Justice and FBI to cover it up Let's set that aside. Let's set aside wrecking the economy, which he's done. Let's set aside all of the erratic behavior and attacking our allies and trying to side with Russia over America's interests. Let's set all that aside. Let's just focus on the conduct of the Iranian war. Okay.

No planning. No planning other than any chimpanzee can fire, sorry military, can fire a weapon, okay, if trained properly. Enough bananas, you can get them to do anything. That's easy. The hard part is then what do you do about the 90 million people of a country in Iran and who's going to lead it? Then he said he's going to be responsible for regime change. Then he said he's going to pick the regime change leader. Then he said, I'm not going to change the regime change as people in his administration tried to dial back goals and said we're just trying to take out the Navy and missiles. Then he said we have to, oh wait, the Strait of Harmuz, where 27% of American oil went through. That's being blockaded.

I didn't really think about that. I'll start bombing around it. Will that work? No. Well, then magical thinking, it'll just unblockade itself, he said at one point. Yeah, that didn't work.

And then I'll get my allies who I've been bashing for 15, 16 months to come to our aid and join the war. How's that? No, that didn't work. Okay. I'll start bombing civilian electrical plants, power plants,

which is a war crime. And I'll threaten that in a social media post. Oh, that didn't work. Oh, wait a minute. will escalate to de-escalate, which is what his Treasury Secretary said over the weekend. And then the backdrop of all of this is that there is no ground game because we cannot win a ground war against Iran. A, we don't have the proper training or troops. The troops do not want to do this Iranian war. Many of them believe based on polling that this is being led, foreign policy

being led by Israel. And they don't see this as their war. or America First War. So you don't have the, you don't have the, Aspre de Corps and the conviction of your troops. You don't have the ability to send in hundreds of thousands, if not millions of troops into Iran to beat its forces. So you got to do it from the air, but you can't beat Iran with a bombing run.

Because of their culture, because of their religion, because they see this as generational. This war will be over when Iran says it's over. when Donald Trump declares it over, and they don't want it over until Trump is out of the Middle East until they control the Strait of Harmuse forever and make it a toll plaza for them to earn money. Your credit score? It may have taken a big hit over the holidays,

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Results not guaranteed cancel any time. That's smartcredit.com slash legal a.f, smartcredit.com. So when I hear next step in the erratic behavior that Donald Trump declares with a typo-written screed that he's had productive conversations in the last 24 hours after threatening a war crime, My question of that is, who had the conversations? The son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with no diplomatic, technical, or war experience? Or maybe Steve Whitkoff, the golf buddy cryptocurrency mogul, who's the other special envoy for the region, also has no experience. Is that where you're getting your intel from? This makes you wholly unqualified, incapable to serve the American people as commander-in-chief as president, which brings us to the 25th Amendment.

I set this up as 20, it's like a boxing match. In this corner of the 22nd Amendment and this corner of the 25th Amendment. 25th Amendment, I'll give you, is that clause 4 says that if a president, this is the involuntary removal of a president. I'll summarize it this way. If a majority of the president's cabinet think he's gone bunkers and with the support of the vice president, they then can take him out of office subject to a vote in the House and the Senate. Okay? Let's unpack that.

First, you need a majority of the cabinet picked by Donald Trump. So you've got about 12 cabinet members-ish. You need about seven to jump off sides and say, hmm, I didn't sign up for this. I don't want to be impeached for war crimes or obstruction or any other crime. It's time to have a conversation. Now, let me speak to the cabinet for a minute. I know a couple of them.

It's time to meet separately about a possibility that the person that you report to has gone nuts. If people were wondering, I wonder what it would look like if a president went mad during office. Okay, we're watching it. We're watching it. The erratic behavior. The demented behavior. The attacks and it's wasted. of billions, if not trillions of taxpayer dollars

on his perceived political targets and enemies, his distraction from things that matter to the American people, his destruction or attempted destruction or chloroforming of the American economy. That's what it looks like. The scandal-ridden, lurching from one constitutional crisis or one scandal of immorality to the next. Meet separately.

Have a conversation. Do a straw poll. See if you have some. seven votes. Okay. Now, J.D. Vance, if you really want to be president of the United States one day, and that's not something I'd take lightly, nor do I want you to accomplish that. You will never do it on the coattails of Donald Trump being seen as his chief enabler. If you step out of the shadows and take a moment and become a true patriot and take out Donald Trump, there will at least begrudgingly be hundreds of millions of people that may reward you.

for your confidence and for your courage. I'm just saying, because under the way the 25th Amendment works, we need the vice president to support this. Majority plus vice president takes the president out of office. President then has four days to tell Congress whether he agrees. We know he's not going to agree. So he will oppose, which means that two-thirds of the House and two-thirds of the Senate will have to agree with the majority of the cabinet to sideline the presidency.

Now, we're not going to get the two-thirds House and Senate now. That's where the midterms come in. That's why the midterms are that wildcard. At the mid-terms, I see a world where the Democrats could get two-thirds of the House. 435 seats. You need two-thirds. We can get that. I mean, there's predictions now based on just raw data input that out of the 435,

I mean, could we get 287? I think we get 250, 260. Could we get another 27 what's left of the Republican carcass to come over and support it? Maybe. Now, the hardest part is the Senate, because for the Senate, you're going to need 67 votes in the Senate. On a good day, I think the Democrats get 57, 58 Senate seats, which means we're going to need another eight or nine Republicans to come over and support that as well. But if the case is made, you know, think about this. Think about if a majority of his cabinet, plus the vice president supported it,

you might see Republicans coming over to the Democrat side because it'll be seen as a bipartisan issue. Because if they have gone that step, that nuclear step of triggering the 25th Amendment, some bad shit that they've seen that we haven't has happened. So I think it could happen. Starts with the midterms again. How many times do we talk about? about in hot tics the need to vote, register to vote, register your friends and family to vote and vote on midterm.

Starts with the House and the Senate to give some confidence and run interference for the cabinet and call for the 25th Amendment and have it heard loud and clear. And the more Donald Trump talks about the 20, that he's going to stay for a third term, That's the other factor that goes into he is unable to perform his job that he continues to talk about being a constitutional criminal. Here's a clip of Donald Trump musing about staying in for a third term. Play it. You said you were not joking about a third term, about possibly wanting a third term. I'm not looking at that, but I'll tell you, I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which is in a way, a fourth term because of the other election.

The 2020 election was totally rigged. So it's actually sort of a fourth term in a certain way. I just don't want the credit for the second. Because Biden was so bad, he did such a bad job. And I think that's one of the reasons that are popular. If you're one, no, the truth. I think I'm popular because we've done a great job. I think we've had the best almost 100 days of any president.

And most people are saying that. And it's an honor. We're bringing back our country. We're respected as a country again. was strongly respected. And people were amazed. I was with some very important people today, and they said that they've never seen a turnaround of a country as fast as this. Even look at our border, we have nobody coming in. And you can't come into our country, but you have to come in legally, but we have nobody coming in to our country. It's almost shut down. They've never seen anything like this.

I'm just telling you, I have had more people. say please run again. They said, we have a long way to go before we even think about that. But I've had a lot of people. And yet recently, with a shy little smile, a sly little smile like the Cheshire Cat, he said, no, I've been told I can't stay in. Play that clip.

Everyone's 401 case hitting records. So we have the greatest economy we've ever had. I have my highest poll numbers that I've ever had. And, you know, based on what I read, I guess I'm not allowed to run. run. So we'll see what happens. Johnson says you're trolling when you talk about a third term. I don't think he said that. I don't think he'd use that term. But it's a very interesting thing. I have the best numbers for any president in many years, any president. And I would say that if you

read it, it's pretty clear. I'm not allowed to run. Stupid. I mean, but we have a lot of great people. So which is it? What he's doing is he's trolling America. got to try to remain relevant as it looks like he's going to get wiped out at the midterms. But it's also, him flirting with this issue is yet another grounds to take him out under the 25th Amendment

and force the issue with the cabinet and with the vice president. Maybe it'll take impeachment proceedings to be started, which is a lot easier because you only need 218 votes to impeach and then you need a majority in the Senate as well, or two-thirds in the Senate as well to convict. But let's get the impeachment going of some of these cabinet members.

That may bring them round, if you know what I mean. I'm glad you're here on the Midas Touch Network on Legal AF. Take a minute, hit the free subscribe button on both channels, Legal AF and Midas Touch. Until my next report, this is Michael. Can't get your fill of LegalAF, me neither. That's why we form the Legal AF substack. Every time we mention something in a hot take,

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