Democrats just swept into control of the House promising two years of all-out war on Donald Trump.
Yet five sitting Democrats are already calling Trump behind closed doors.
What Trump says those calls prove will leave Hakeem Jeffries fuming.
Hakeem Jeffries Still Won't Rule Out a Trump Impeachment
Hakeem Jeffries is about to run the House Democratic majority, and he has already shown the country what that means.
Asked directly whether Democrats would move to impeach Trump the moment they hold the gavel, Jeffries refused to say no.
He has given that same non-answer for months while telling swing voters his real priority is the cost of living.
The man about to control the House floor left impeachment on the table on purpose.
That is the fight Democrats are selling their base: two years of subpoenas and a renewed hunt for an impeachable offense, the same hunt that came up empty twice during Trump's first term.
Trump has a theory for why Democrats behave this way.
"We don't impeach them. You know why? Because they're meaner than we are," Trump has said of the difference between the two parties.
But on Tuesday, in an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier, Trump revealed something that cuts against the entire impeachment script.
Five Democrats Secretly Call Trump Before Congress Changes Hands
Trump told Baier he already has Democrats quietly reaching out to him.
"I have a lot of friends that are Democrats, believe it or not," Trump said.
He said five Democrats – two senators and three congressmen – have already called him, with three more still waiting to call.
They reached out before their party has even officially taken power.
They are not calling to coordinate impeachment hearings.
They are calling because they already know what happens once Jeffries sends Trump legislation built for a far-left base instead of the country: a veto.
Trump Says His Veto Power Is Impervious and History Backs Him Up
Trump did not hedge about what happens once Democrats start sending him bills he does not like.
"They'll send over things that are insane and I'll veto them," he told Baier.
"It's impervious," Trump added of his veto power.
That is not just bravado.
History proves it: a president facing a hostile Congress reaches for the veto pen more than three times as often as one who controls both chambers already, and Congress almost never wins the fight that follows.
Pew Research Center studied every veto cast between 1973 and 2014 and found presidents vetoed 3.6 percent of bills sent to them when the opposing party controlled both chambers, compared with just 1 percent when the president's own party ran Washington.
Democrats could hold the House and Senate outright and still watch their bills die on Trump's desk nine times out of ten.
Pew found Congress successfully overrode a veto against a hostile opposing Congress only 16.4 percent of the time, because overriding takes two-thirds of both chambers – a wall Democrats are nowhere near clearing.
George W. Bush proved exactly how that wall holds.
Democrats swept the 110th Congress in the 2006 midterms, Bush issued eleven vetoes, and they overrode just four.
Barack Obama never even had to test the wall – both of his vetoes came while Democrats still controlled Congress, and both were sustained without a fight.
The math is not complicated.
A united opposition can pass whatever bill makes for a good press release, and one veto stops it cold unless enough Republicans defect to hand Democrats a two-thirds majority neither chamber is close to having.
Jeffries Cannot Impeach His Way Past a Veto Override
Impeachment makes for a good fundraising email, but it does not pass a single bill and it does not override a veto.
Jeffries can hold a hundred hearings on whatever grievance his caucus dreams up next, and none of it changes the math: 290 votes in the House, 67 in the Senate, numbers Democrats are nowhere close to after their best midterm since 2018.
That explains why five Democrats are picking up the phone before they have even been sworn in.
They know their leadership is promising a revenge fantasy the numbers cannot cash.
Trump is reading the same numbers, which is why he already predicted how this ends.
"After a couple of months of vetoes, they'll go out and they'll say, how do we get this stuff done?" Trump told Baier.
"And we'll work together," he said.
Jeffries can keep refusing to rule out impeachment for the cameras.
Five Democrats are already ruling out gridlock for themselves.
Sources:
- Landon Mion, "Trump Touts Ultimate Power of Veto After Democrats Win Control of House and Senate," Fox News, November 3, 2026.
- Fox News, "Trump Says Democrats Are Meaner Than Republicans, Warns of Impeachment if GOP Loses Midterms," Fox News, 2026.
- David Manney, "Jeffries Just Told America What Democrats Will Do if They Win the House," PJ Media, June 14, 2026.
- Pew Research Center, "Will a GOP-Run Congress Lead to More Obama Vetoes? History Suggests Yes," Pew Research Center, January 12, 2015.
