Rep. Jasmine Crockett Responds To Low IQ Criticism: What Black Woman “Hurt” Trump? “What Is His IQ?”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) appeared on CNN to respond to President Donald Trump calling her a “low IQ person” at a press availability on Air Force One over the weekend.
KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN HOST: Yes, well, there’s a lot of questions about what happens when this — the bill that the House passed, to go through the end of November runs out, what that looks like. And the President was talking to reporters on Air Force One today. He had a lot to say in that. We’re going to show people that during the show, because he talked about a third term, he talked about his recent visit to Walter Reed. But he also brought you up, at one point, while he was speaking with reporters. I want everyone to listen to what he said about you. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: 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. 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. (END VIDEO CLIP) COLLINS: It was a question about not ruling out a third term. But what’s your reaction to what the President said there? REP. JASMINE CROCKETT (D-TX): 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. 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. 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. 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.
