Trump singles out Hakeem Jeffries and Candace Owens as ‘low IQ’ in newest insults towards distinguished folks of coloration | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump has singled out House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and conservative podcaster Candace Owens as “Low IQ” in his newest assaults towards distinguished folks of coloration.

“Candace Owens’ stock, which was never very high, has fallen a long way,” the president wrote on Truth Social on Friday night. “I believe, in this case, without verification, she is an extremely Low IQ individual!”

He additional slammed Owens for focusing on France’s first girl, Brigitte Macron. The podcaster has repeatedly, and with out proof, claimed Macron is secretly transgender — allegations that prompted an unprecedented defamation lawsuit from her and husband President Emmanuel Macron.

In the submit, Trump shared a doctored picture portraying Owens as Time journal’s “Vile Person of the Year,” accompanied by taglines accusing her of “using rich white men” and defending “sex offenders.”

Seven minutes later, he turned his consideration to Jeffries — who he beforehand derided as a “low IQ person” on Tuesday.

“Hakeem ‘High Tax’ Jeffries is a Low IQ individual who is not smart enough to be ‘running’ the Democrat Party, and certainly not smart enough to be involved in running the United States of America,” the 79-year-old Republican president wrote.

“It’s people like this who almost destroyed our Nation with their High Tax, Open Border Policies,” he continued. “In the future, Hakeem, a fine American name, will forever be known as HIGH TAX!”

The president routinely labels opponents and critics of all racial backgrounds as “low IQ” — a time period he additionally used this month to explain Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly. Yet he has most frequently utilized it to minority figures, together with Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Rep. Maxine Waters and former Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Trump’s characterization of people of color as ‘low IQ’ is a racist dog whistle with a long history in the U.S.,” Karrin Vasby Anderson, a communications professor at Colorado State University, advised the AFP.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, beforehand noticed that the president makes use of the time period liberally and throughout racial strains. “It’s just who Donald Trump is,” he mentioned. “But you know, he calls other people that, too.”

Trump has typically insisted that he’s the “least racist” president. In 2017, he advised an interviewer: “The first thing they do, with the Republicans or conservatives, is the racist card. They pull out the racist card. They always do that, not just me. They do it with everybody.”

In February, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at reporters who she mentioned falsely “smeared” the president as a bigot. Her response got here after Trump posted a video depicting the Obamas as primates, which drew bipartisan condemnation. Trump claimed he didn’t see that a part of the video, which occurred on the very finish, and it was later taken down.

According to a YouGov ballot performed the identical month, 47 p.c of Americans mentioned they’d use the time period racist to explain Trump, whereas 24 p.c mentioned they’d not and 29 p.c expressed no opinion.

Both Jeffries and Owens — who hail from reverse sides of the political spectrum — routinely lambaste the president, together with over the Iran conflict.

Earlier this month, Owens, who endorsed Trump in 2024, accused him of being unable to “put together a coherent thought,” declaring that “MAGA is no longer committed to you — and you know it.”

Jeffries, the very best rating Democrat within the House, has branded Trump a “wannabe king,” labeled him a “disaster for the economy” and denounced the Iran conflict as “reckless.”

When requested in regards to the president’s “Low IQ” comment on Thursday, Jeffries mentioned: “It’s extraordinary to me that Donald Trump retains recycling [these] low IQ insults. This is from the dumbest president ever.”