Last week, the president of the United States, during a speech at The Villages, a retirement community in Florida full of his followers, the American president He assured that former President Barack Obama would fail a cognitive test.
Trump usually labels them as individuals with “low IQ”. However, research has shown that most of the time he uses those words he is referring to black people.
The American magazine has asked the director of a research company (who preferred to remain anonymous) to Analyze both Trump’s social media posts and his public statements.
In the case of the social networksthe publications that the American president has made in Truth Social have been examined for the last four years, until April 10.
The result is that Trump has used the words “low IQ” at least 50 times to address individuals and communities. Of all those mentions, 60% concerned African American public figures and legislators.
The main targets of Trump’s personal attacks
From Mother Jones They specify that “among the targets were Vice President Kamala Harris; the representatives Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.); the reverend Al Sharpton; the attorney general of New York, Letitia Jamesor the political strategist Donna Brazile“.
On the contrary, in the list of white people classified by the North American president as having “low IQ” are Joe Biden, Tim Walz, Liz Cheney or Robert De Niro.
In it analysis of public statements a video file has been used C-SPAN which covered Donald Trump’s speeches at rallies, press conferences and other events over the past 10 years. During that period, the American president used the “low IQ” accusation at least 75 times. Forty of those cases (53%) targeted black people.
