President Donald Trump pulled no punches when joking about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) in an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News Channel, commenting on the total dysfunction in Omar’s home country of Somalia and the seeming imbecility repeatedly exhibited by Jasmine Crockett.
For reference, President Trump has been on the warpath against both far-left congresswomen for a long time, repeatedly skewering Jasmine Crockett for being “low IQ” and commenting on Omar’s birth country of Somalia. For example, the White House X account posted, right around the time of his Ingraham interview, a picture of him waving goodbye to Omar, insinuating that she should return to Somalia.
In any case, speaking to Ingraham about Crockett and Omar, President Trump began by breaking out his usual sort of commentary about Jasmine Crockett, saying, “This Crockett. This is a very low-IQ person.” Then, turning from her to the “Squad” congresswoman, he went scorched earth on Rep. Omar.
Doing so, he said, “And I look at somebody that comes from Somalia who where they don’t have anything, they don’t have police, they don’t have military, they don’t have anything. All they have is crime. And she comes in and tells us how to run our country.” He added, mimicking her, “‘The Constitution says this The Constitution….'” He concluded, “The whole thing is crazy.”
Predictably, that sparked a firestorm on X, with leftist journalist Medhi Hasan saying, for example, “This is Trump talking about two Black female members of Congress, one of whom is an immigrant. If any other president, Bush, Reagan, had said this, it would be a huge scandal. We have accepted/normalized his relentless and open anti-Black racism and xenophobia.”
Similarly, another leftist account insisted, “By now it seems like 75% of the times Trump has referred to someone as “low IQ” he was talking about a black woman. I may be wrong about this. If anybody can correct me, go for it.” Watch the clip from the interview here:
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This isn’t the first time that Trump has called Crockett low-IQ. Doing so in a late-October interview, for example, he said, “They have a guy that’s ruined the state of California, ruined it, destroyed it. And I have a lotta property out there, I can tell you they’ve ruined the state of California. He has been terrible. Other than he’s got a good line of–bullshit, that’s all it is. He’s ruined the state. And he’s one of the people running. Jasmine Crockett, she’s a low-IQ person. They say she might run for president, Jasmine Crockett. This is a very low-IQ person.”
Crockett, responding in her usually nonsensical fashion, insisted, when speaking to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins on “The Source,” “I’m waiting on a reporter…[to] finally asked him what is his IQ, because he is constantly talking about…he doesn’t even know what a low IQ is.” She added, “He doesn’t even know which scores are low. And I can guarantee you that whatever score he’s taken anytime recently, I’m sure that his qualifies as [low IQ] well.”