Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says she’ll accept President Trump’s challenge to take a cognitive test, knocking him for having time to “troll” her with questions about her intelligence during the federal government shutdown.
“Listen, if he’s down, I’m down,” Crockett said during a Wednesday appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” when asked about Trump daring her to take a cognitive test.
“I know that he can’t seem to find himself in the Oval Office to make sure that he can end this shutdown, but he does have time to troll me,” Crockett, 44, said.
Trump told reporters this week that he underwent an MRI as well as a cognitive test during a physical exam in early October.
“The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six, and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions,” Trump said, adding that the doctors described his results as some “of the best reports for the age.”
“They have Jasmine Crockett — a low IQ person. They have — AOC [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] is low IQ,” Trump said of the New York Democrat.
“Have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed,” the 79-year-old president said.
The people whom Trump derides as “low IQ,” Crockett told Kimmel, “tend to be women and they tend to be women of color.”
Crockett then identified a picture of an elephant and repeated a series of five words back to Kimmel, as the late-night host mocked Trump’s challenge.
“I want to warn you: There are going to be questions that favor him, like, ‘How do you get ketchup out of a bottle?’ And ‘What’s the difference between a windmill and a ceiling fan?’ So this is not going to be easy,” Kimmel said.
“With that said, you accept his challenge?” he asked Crockett.
“I absolutely accept it,” she replied.
“In the event of a tie, are you open to sit-up contest?” Kimmel asked.
“Well, absolutely, I don’t know that [Trump] can sit up. So yes,” Crockett said.
