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.
While speaking to reporters en route to Japan on Monday, Trump said that Crockett and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have a “low IQ,” going on to challenge the two lawmakers to pass a cognitive test that he took as part of his routine physical in April.
“Those are really hard — they’re really aptitude tests, I guess in a certain way,” Trump said on Air Force One following his visit to Malaysia. “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.”
“He consistently is obsessing over two women of color.”
During an appearance on CNN late Monday, Crockett responded to the dare.
“He doesn’t even know what a low IQ is,” Crockett said on “The Source.” “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 his qualifies as low.”
Crockett went on to say that Trump has “never been known to be an Einstein,” adding that he “probably” would not have been accepted into any college without “being born with a silver spoon.”
“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,” Crockett said. “You are the president. You have a lot more power than we do, but obviously you consistently feel threatened.”
“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.”