Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) didn’t just shrug off President Donald Trump’s latest attack on her intelligence. She fired back, turning the spotlight on the president himself.
Trump targeted Crockett and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Monday during a rant aboard Air Force One, boasting about his own cognitive test performance while mocking the two lawmakers’ smarts.
“They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. They have uh… AOC’s low IQ. You give her an IQ test… have her pass, like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. I took … those are very hard, they’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests,” Trump said.
He added: “Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don’t think Jasmine… the first couple of questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six, and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25. They couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.”
On CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins Monday night, Crockett was asked to respond and she didn’t hold back.
“Listen, I’m waiting on a reporter, and maybe it’ll be you, Kaitlan, that finally ask him, What is his IQ? Because he is constantly talking about — he doesn’t even know what a low IQ is,” Crockett said. He don’t even know which scores are low. And I can guarantee you that whatever score, if he’s taken one, anytime recently, I’m sure that his qualifies as low.”
She continued: “Listen, he’s never been known to be an Einstein. This is not a guy who got in on merit, when it came to going to college. This is someone who, but for him, being born with a silver spoon, probably wouldn’t have gotten into anybody’s institution, unlike me. So, I am not worried about that.”
“And I wish people would look at the fact that you have a President of the United States who consistently is obsessing over two women of color that are members of the House. You are the President. You have a lot more power than we do. But obviously, you consistently feel threatened. And that is why we have seen, the attacks on black women in general from this administration. I don’t know what black woman hurt him in his past, honey, but it is really taking him through it.”
Crockett concluded: “But I really wish, for the sake of this country, and honestly, for the sake of the world, that he would focus on his real job and stop worrying about me. My constituents will worry about whether or not I have an adequate IQ, even though that’s not the test that he’s taking. And it’s up to them to decide. It’s not him. He can’t hire me or fire me, unfortunately for him.”
Crockett’s response flips Trump’s insult on its head, pointing out that the real story isn’t her intelligence. Instead, it’s a sitting president obsessing over two Black women in Congress instead of focusing on governing.
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