Donald Trump set off a wave of irony on Thursday when he declared throughout a Cabinet assembly: “I don’t want a stupid person being president.”
The comment got here amid a prolonged assault on Democrats, whom he branded “a party of insanity” that “will destroy our country.”
Trump singled out California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a possible 2028 Democratic presidential candidate who has spoken publicly about his dyslexia, a brain-based studying distinction that impacts studying and language processing.
“I believe he took himself out of the running when he says he suffers from mental disability,” Trump mentioned, referring to Newsom by his derogatory nickname “Newscum.”
“A reporter said it was terrible that I talked that way about somebody with mental disability,” he added, earlier than calling Newsom “actually a very stupid person.”
“I don’t want a stupid person being president,” Trump continued, later boasting about acing a number of cognitive checks — which he claimed proves he’s sensible, despite the fact that such checks are designed to detect cognitive decline, not measure intelligence.
Newsom’s press staff fired again: “Wow. Trump is going to resign?”
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