Trump Throws a Surprising Curveball at Jasmine Crockett With a Question That Leaves Everyone Stunned.NH
President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched a bizarre attack on Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), a prominent critic, calling her “low-IQ” before wondering whether she is related to 19th-century frontiersman Davy Crockett.
Trump was dubiously touting his poll numbers in a CNBC interview when he took aim at the Democratic Party.
“The Democrat Party is self-destructing,” he began, using a Republican misnomer for the party. “I mean, when you have low-IQ people like [Jasmine] Crockett… I wonder if she’s any relation to the late, great Davy Crockett, who is a great, great, a great gentleman. I wonder if she’s got any relationship to Davy Crockett, the great old Davy Crockett.”
HuffPost has contacted Crockett’s office for comment.
Trump also scoffed at the idea that the Texas Democrat, who was first elected to the House in 2023, was one of the leaders of her party.
“They have Trump derangement syndrome so bad that they can’t walk, they can’t talk, they don’t know what they’re doing,” he said.
An American folk hero, Davy Crockett was a soldier and lawmaker whose adventures on the frontier were popularized by a Disney television series from the 1950s.
The 21st-century Crockett, meanwhile, recently launched a series of high-profile attacks on the president.
On Sunday, she labeled Trump a “piece of shit,” but also called out those in Congress and on the Supreme Court for enabling his agenda.
“In a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to get away with this,” Crockett said at the progressive policy group MoveOn’s Won’t Back Down tour stop in Phoenix.
Elsewhere in his Tuesday interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Trump said he will “probably not” run for president again, even though he said he would “like to” despite being barred by the Constitution.
The president also got fact-checked on air as he repeatedly said he has “the best poll numbers [he’s] ever had.”
Host Joe Kernen made clear that Trump enjoys high support among Republican voters, but not the overall electorate.
