House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) challenged President Donald Trump to a debate on Thursday in response to being called “Low IQ” by the commander in chief.
Jeffries was asked during a press conference to respond to Trump’s labeling of him as a “Traitor Democrat” and “Low IQ person” for criticizing the administration’s handling of the Iran war.
“If Donald Trump wants to debate me any time, any place in the Oval Office, publicly, on camera, I’d be happy to do it, and we’ll see who’s intellectually superior in that type of contest,” Jeffries said. “I’ve got no doubts as to what the outcome would be.”
“It’s extraordinary to me that Donald Trump keeps recycling this ‘low IQ’ insult,” Jeffries added. “This from the dumbest president ever to sit at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and there’s not even really a close second.”
Jeffries said he was not concerned about what Trump had to say about him and was focused on dealing with the fallout from the administration’s war on Iran and the issue of affordability.
Trump has called Jeffries “low IQ” on a number of occasions, an insult the president has leveled against other critics as well.
“Never allow the Traitor Democrats like Low IQ person Hakeem Jeffries, or Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, or the totally corrupt Fake News Media such as the phony and decaying Wall Street Journal, the Failing New York Times (Subscriptions way down!), or dying ’60 Minutes,’ to demean or criticize Operation Midnight Hammer, which totally obliterated the Nuclear Dust locations to the point where bloodthirsty Iran has been unable to get to it, or dig it out,” Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social.
Jeffries has consistently condemned the Iran conflict as Trump’s “war of choice.” The minority leader has backed reining in Trump’s war powers, but those efforts have failed in the House and Senate.
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Jeffries has intensified criticism of Trump and Republicans in recent weeks after Democrats have overperformed in recent special elections this year and narrowly won a referendum in Virginia to redraw the state’s congressional map.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the White House for comment.