President Donald Trump took aim at Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in remarks from the Oval Office. While speaking to the press on Thursday (Sept. 25), POTUS reacted to Crockett’s name being mentioned as a reporter attempted to ask him a question.
“Jasmine Crockett?” questioned the 79-year-old as he cut off the journalist. “Remember what I say: Is she a relation to the late, great Davy Crockett? I don’t think so. Let me tell you before you even ask: She’s a very low-IQ person.”
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a roundtable with faith leaders at Christ Chapel on October 23, 2024 in Zebulon, Georgia.
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“I mean, if we ever have to pass an aptitude test, that’s the one who should take one because she shouldn’t even be,” he continued. “So I have no idea what you’re gonna—but I don’t even think we should waste our time. This is a low-IQ person who I can’t even believe is a congressperson,” the president exclaimed.
“Between her and Ill-man Omar and the group,” he continued, mispronouncing Omar’s name and suggesting she also did not belong in Congress. “You know, I met the head of Somalia. Did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he’d like to take her back. He said ‘I don’t want her.’”
His remarks come at about the 29:58-minute mark of the live-streamed press conference.
The journalist continued to inform Trump that Crockett compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids to slave patrols.
“I want to ask you if you think there should be consequences for members of Congress who make these kinds of comparisons?” the reporter pressed.
“Well, I think she’s gone over the line,” answered Trump. “The Democrats have become radical left lunatics. They have policies that nobody’s going to buy.”
In Crockett’s full remarks, she explained, “As somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see slave patrols.”
“If you know the history of policing in this country, then you understand that they were born out of slave patrols. And now with the Supreme Court saying this, it’s almost like you can just go grab them up. That is what they’re saying, and that is a problem. We all should have a problem with that. But when you don’t want to teach American history that includes Black history, then you lose out on the benefit of understanding that we have been down this road before. And it was not good, and we fixed it once, and it is a shame that we are relitigating this, and we are going to have to fix it again.”
