Trump Singles Out Hakeem Jeffries And Candace Owens As ‘low Iq’ In Latest Insults Against Prominent People Of Color

President Donald Trump has singled retired House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and conservative podcaster Candace Owens arsenic “Low IQ” successful his latest attacks against salient group of color.

“Candace Owens’ stock, which was ne'er very high, has fallen a agelong way,” nan president wrote connected Truth Social connected Friday evening. “I believe, successful this case, without verification, she is an highly Low IQ individual!”

He further slammed Owens for targeting France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron. The podcaster has repeatedly, and without evidence, claimed Macron is secretly transgender — allegations that prompted an unprecedented defamation lawsuit from her and hubby President Emmanuel Macron.

In nan post, Trump shared a doctored image portraying Owens arsenic Time magazine’s “Vile Person of nan Year,” accompanied by taglines accusing her of “using rich | achromatic men” and protecting “sex offenders.”

Seven minutes later, he turned his attraction to Jeffries — who he antecedently derided arsenic a “low IQ person” connected Tuesday.

“Hakeem ‘High Tax’ Jeffries is simply a Low IQ individual who is not smart capable to beryllium ‘running’ nan Democrat Party, and surely not smart capable to beryllium progressive successful moving nan United States of America,” nan 79-year-old Republican president wrote.

“It’s group for illustration this who almost destroyed our Nation pinch their High Tax, Open Border Policies,” he continued. “In nan future, Hakeem, a good American name, will everlastingly beryllium known arsenic HIGH TAX!”

The president routinely labels opponents and critics of each group backgrounds arsenic “low IQ” — a word he besides utilized this period to picture Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly. Yet he has astir often applied it to number figures, including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Rep. Maxine Waters and erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris.

"Trump's characterization of group of colour arsenic 'low IQ' is simply a racist canine whistle pinch a agelong history successful nan U.S.," Karrin Vasby Anderson, a communications professor astatine Colorado State University, told nan AFP.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, antecedently observed that nan president uses nan word liberally and crossed group lines. “It’s conscionable who Donald Trump is,” he said. “But you know, he calls different group that, too.”

Trump has often insisted that he is nan “least racist” president. In 2017, he told an interviewer: “The first point they do, pinch nan Republicans aliases conservatives, is nan racist card. They propulsion retired nan racist card. They ever do that, not conscionable me. They do it pinch everybody.”

In February, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed retired astatine reporters who she said falsely “smeared” nan president arsenic a bigot. Her consequence came aft Trump posted a video depicting nan Obamas arsenic primates, which drew bipartisan condemnation. Trump claimed he did not spot that portion of nan video, which occurred astatine nan very end, and it was later taken down.

According to a YouGov canvass conducted nan aforesaid month, 47 percent of Americans said they would usage nan word racist to picture Trump, while 24 percent said they would not and 29 percent expressed nary opinion.

Both Jeffries and Owens — who hail from other sides of nan governmental spectrum — routinely lambaste nan president, including complete nan Iran war.

Earlier this month, Owens, who endorsed Trump successful 2024, accused him of being incapable to "put together a coherent thought," declaring that “MAGA is nary longer committed to you — and you cognize it.”

Jeffries, nan highest ranking Democrat successful nan House, has branded Trump a “wannabe king,” branded him a “disaster for nan economy” and denounced nan Iran warfare arsenic “reckless.”

When asked astir nan president’s “Low IQ” remark connected Thursday, Jeffries said: “It's bonzer to maine that Donald Trump keeps recycling [these] debased IQ insults. This is from nan dumbest president ever."