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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) has fired back at Donald Trump after the president again called her a “low IQ person” while boasting about his performance on a basic cognitive exam.
“He’s never been known to be an Einstein,” Crockett told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “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.”
Crockett said she could “guarantee” that Trump’s IQ “qualifies as low” if he’s taken a test recently.
“What is his IQ? He doesn’t even know what an IQ is,” the Democratic lawmaker said. “He don’t even know which scores are low.”
Crockett's comments came after Trump said Monday (October 27) that he had taken an "aptitude test," but what he really described was the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, the same “person, woman, man, camera, TV” test he took in 2020. The assessment screens for cognitive impairment or dementia, not intelligence.
Despite that, Trump has repeatedly bragged about passing the test and claimed that neither Crockett nor Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) could do the same.
“Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump,” the president said.
During her appearance on CNN, Crockett called out what she said was a pattern in Trump’s remarks.
“He consistently is obsessing over two women of color. I don’t know what Black woman hurt him in his past, honey, but it is really taking him through it," she said, adding that Trump should “focus on his real job.”
Ocasio-Cortez also responded on X, jokingly asking Trump if the doctors administering his test had him draw a clock, a common part of the exam used to screen for neurological issues.
“Out of curiosity, did those doctors ask you to draw a clock by any chance? Was that part hard for you, too?” she wrote. “Asking for 340 million people.”
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