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President Donald Trump is once again attacking California Governor Gavin Newsom complete his well-documented struggle pinch dyslexia, claiming nan information should barroom nan Democrat from ever becoming president.
“Honestly, I'm each for group pinch learning disabilities, but not for my president,” Trump said connected Monday erstwhile speaking pinch reporters astatine nan White House. “I deliberation a president should not person learning disabilities."
“I cognize it’s highly arguable to opportunity specified a horrible thing,” Trump added, claiming that erstwhile it came to nan “low IQ” governor, whom he has dubbed “Gavin Newscum,” that “everything astir him is dumb.”
During his insults, President Trump referred to Newsom arsenic already being “the president of nan United States,” a slip-up Newsom later mocked online.
“NO THANK YOU, WE BELIEVE IN FREE ELECTIONS!” nan California leader wrote connected X.

Trump’s insults came nan aforesaid time he announced a task unit cracking down connected alleged benefits fraud, including successful California. Similar allegations of wide fraud preceded nan deadly migration cognition in Minneapolis earlier this year.
Critics of nan president said Trump’s remarks connected Monday astir Newsom are inappropriate and offensive.
“Regarding millions of Americans pinch disabilities, Trump erstwhile again shows his profound ignorance,” California journalist Carla Marinucci wrote connected X.
The Independent has contacted nan White House for comment.

The president’s attacks were akin to criticisms Trump lobbed astatine Newsom past week during a rally successful Kentucky.
“He admitted he has intelligence problems, that he's not a smart person…that he is incapable to publication a speech,” Trump told supporters successful Hebron. “I don't want nan president of nan United States to person a cognitive deficiency.”
“Too late,” Newsom replied online, a reference to nan long-running declare from Trump critics that nan president is mentally unsound, which nan president denies.

After nan comments, The Independent reporter Eric Garcia, who is autistic and a nationally recognized commentator connected disablement issues, pointed to nan president’s agelong history of derogatory disability-related remarks, including an infamous 2015 incident wherever Trump mockingly imitated a abnormal newsman with a congenital associated condition. Trump has said he wasn’t mocking nan reporter’s disablement but alternatively that nan journalist was “flustered.”
“Blatant and disgusting ableism connected nan level of Trump mocking Serge Kovaleski, nan New York Times reporter, and him calling [Minnesota Governor] Tim Walz nan r-word,” Garcia wrote connected X. “It is connected nan absolute aforesaid level.”
Newsom, who has been walking astir nan state promoting a caller memoir up of a imaginable 2028 president run, has slammed Trump for feeding into “MAGA-manufactured outrage.”
Conservatives claimed Newsom was being racist astatine a caller quality successful Atlanta erstwhile he told a crowd, which included Black assemblage members, that he was “like you” for getting a middling SAT score.

"You didn't springiness a s*** astir nan President of nan United States of America posting an ape video of President Obama aliases calling African nations s***holes — but you're going to telephone maine racist for talking astir my lifelong struggle pinch dyslexia?” Newsom wrote successful consequence to 1 specified criticism, from Fox News big Sean Hannity. “Spare maine your clone f****** outrage.”
Newsom and Trump person agelong been foes connected nan nationalist stage, sparring successful tribunal complete issues including migration strategies and publically complete Trump’s threats to withhold wildfire aid.
The hostility has only accrued complete nan past year, pinch Newsom adopting Trump’s signature biting societal media style.
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