President Donald Trump on Wednesday hit out at the Supreme Court and singled out the only Black, female member of the nine-justice panel in a social media screed ahead of the court’s widely-anticipated ruling on whether he can unilaterally deny citizenship to children born to parents without legal immigration status.
Writing on Truth Social, the president claimed the three justices appointed to the high court by Democratic presidents — Elena Kagen, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson — “stick together like glue, NEVER failing to wander from the warped and perverse policies, ideas, and cases put before them” and accused them of “always” voting “as a group or block.”
But then he specifically went after Jackson, the most recent member elevated to the high court, as “that new, Low IQ person, that somehow found her way to the bench.”
Continuing, Trump groused about how the court’s GOP-appointees, three of whom he nominated, “don’t stick together” because some of them render decisions that are at odds with his administration’s desires such as the court’s recent decision to strike down his use of a Carter-era emergency powers law to impose massive import taxes on goods from nearly every U.S. trading partner.
“The Republican Justices don’t stick together, they give the Democrats win after win, like a 159 Billion Dollar pile of cash on a completely ridiculous Tariff decision, and nasty, one sided questions on the country destroying subject of Birthright Citizenship, something which virtually NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS STUPID ENOUGH TO ALLOW,” he said.
“No, certain ‘Republican’ Justices have just gone weak, stupid, and bad, completely violating what they ‘supposedly’ stood for.”
The president’s attack on the high court is the latest of his public statements in which he’s pejoratively referred to a prominent Black person as being “low IQ.”
While Trump has used the insult to refer to critics of all racial backgrounds — including podcaster Tucker Carlson and actor Robert De Niro — he has most frequently used the term to refer to Black people and most often Black women.
A day earlier, he made the same attack on Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, in a post slamming Democrats for opposing his war against Iran.
Other Black women he’s made similar comments about include Jasmine Crockett, the Texas congresswoman who recently lost a primary bid for her party’s nomination in this year’s Senate race.
During an appearance on NBC News’ Meet the Press last year he told host Kristen Welker that he’d watched Crockett during a recent speaking engagement.
“I watched her speak the other day, and she’s definitely a low-IQ person,” he said.
During his first term, he also tweeted a threat against California Rep. Maxine Waters after the House member urged Americans to “push back” against his administration.
“Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinary low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party,” he said.
He also repeatedly used the same attack against his 2024 election opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her “dumb,” “mentally unfit,” “slow,” “stupid” and an “extremely low IQ person” in various appearances over the course of his campaign that year.
But Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., noted that Trump has deployed the slur towards people who are not Black as well.
“it's just who Donald Trump is. But you know, he calls other folk that too. So you look at his administration, he's done everything he can to demean immigrants who want to come to this country. So it's Donald Trump being Donald Trump,” Thompson said.
Asked why Trump chose to single out Justice Jackson as “low IQ” compared with the other eight justices on the court, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told The Independent in a statement: “President Trump never hesitates to share his thoughts with the American people – whether that’s highlighting the strong decisions made by Justices Thomas and Alito or rightfully pointing out the deficiencies of others’ opinions.”
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