'Somehow found her way to the bench': Trump insults Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as 'low IQ'
By: Gerren Keith Gaynor (TheGrio)
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President Donald Trump personally attacked U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in a Truth Social tirade, calling the double Harvard-educated, first Black woman to serve on the nation's highest court "low IQ."
In a Wednesday morning post bemoaning the Supreme Court's February ruling against his global tariffs that collected more than $166 billion from importers and drove up consumer prices, Trump complained that the conservative majority—three of whom were appointed by him—do not "stick together" like the three liberal justices, including Jackson and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Trump wrote of Jackson: "They ALWAYS vote as a group, or BLOCK, even that new, Low IQ person, that somehow found her way to the bench (Sleepy Joe!)."
The president's insult of Jackson isn't unfamiliar; he's repeatedly used the "low IQ" term to attack his perceived political enemies, many of whom have been Black women, including U.S. Reps. Jasmine Crockett, Maxine Waters, Ilhan Omar, and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Jackson, who earned her bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1992 and Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1996, worked as a federal public defender from 2005-2007, a U.S. district judge from 2013-2021, and a U.S. Court of Appeals judge from 2021 until she was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden in 2022.
While Trump's "low IQ" insult has also been used against non-Black individuals like former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, it's particularly offensive when used against Black Americans.
"It means something different in the Black community, because there is a specific type of racism and white supremacy that attacks Black minds," says Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross.
Dating back to the U.S. enslavement of Black people in the 1800s, Cross explained, "Government institutions at the time used faulty science to say that Black people had smaller brains, so their capacity wasn't strong enough for them to work in any other way than using their hands and breaking their backs."
Trump's attack on Jackson comes a week after the Supreme Court justice rebuked the court's conservative majority for its many rulings in favor of the president's emergency order requests. She argued that the rulings allowed the president to carry out executive actions that were likely illegal. Justice Jackson has also emerged as a forceful critic of the Trump administration, often making headlines for her various dissents.
"The president of the United States, although he may be…harmed in an abstract way by not doing what he wants to do, he certainly isn't harmed if what he wants to do is illegal, right? He doesn't have the ability to do something unlawful. And the point of the merits proceeding is to determine whether the thing he wants to do is unlawful," Jackson said recently during a lecture at Yale Law School.
"She's not afraid to stand up to this president, and that's something that he is always ready to shoot fire from; when somebody stands up to him, particularly in the legal space," Cross tells theGrio. "The only place that has been able to chase down Donald Trump and win has been when he is threatened by the courts."
The Democratic strategist added, "He cannot take a rebuke, but he definitely can't take a rebuke from Black women. There isn't a singular identity in America that Donald Trump hates more than Black women."
Cross says it's also not a coincidence that Trump attacks the intelligence of Black women—and other prominent Black figures like former U.S. President Barack Obama—at a time when funding and resources, like education, are plaguing Black communities, and Black unemployment and racial wealth disparities are rising.
"This is also the guy who is pushing an anti-DEI narrative to strip education from Black people, to limit their access to higher education, to limit their access to federal student loans that would allow them to go to grad school, particularly those from low-income communities," she explains. "This is the guy who says that once you've achieved something as a Black person, it's because of DEI, not because of your intellectual capacity, not because of your skill set, not because you worked hard. All of that is thrown aside because you shouldn't have been there in the first place."
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If you don't like Ketanji Brown Jackson's decisions then say that only. Calling her "low IQ" is a blatant appeal to racism.
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Academic Credentials
Ketanji Brown Jackson holds a distinguished academic background from Harvard University , where she earned both her undergraduate and law degrees with high honors.
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in Government – Graduated magna cum laude in 1992 from Harvard University EBSCO +1 .
Juris Doctor (J.D.) – Graduated cum laude in 1996 from Harvard Law School LII / Legal Information Institute .
Harvard Law Review – Served as a supervising editor during her time at Harvard Law School Britannica .
In other words, educationally, she is more accomplished than he is.
Trump has no other appeal. If he didn't appeal to racism, he'd lose at least a third of his base.
I wonder how many MAGA rally goers think she is low IQ because Trump said so.
It’s because Trump was raised to see black and low IQ like tomato and tomahto. Clearly it stuck with him.
Trump rally goers don't think, they react.
Trump's favorite projection is a claim that others have a low-IQ.
The man has severe IQ-envy (among his many faults).
Those who are not part of his dwindling cult likely have recognized for quite some time that Trump is not smart (being generous).
She’s extremely low iq for a Supreme Court justice. It’s like putting a high school benchwarmer in the nba
If she is low IQ then Trump must be No IQ.
...and his minions combined must be no IQ.
what do you think trumps iq is?
Off the charts … in the wrong direction.
average
good answer!
Likely similar to Al Capone which was, as John said, average and he likely suffers from similar mental conditions.
The Rise And Fall Of Gangster Al Capone : NPR
Quite a find.
Thank you for your opinion. Now we know (for sure) what is up with this end of MAGA. (We shall not forget!)
How exactly do you know her IQ much less the IQs of others on the SCotUS?
By paying attention to the Court, you can tell who the smart ones are, and the not so smart ones. She's out of her depth. The first sign being she's not smart enough to recognize how out of her depth she is and constantly advertises it. .
So all her high honors at Harvard were the result of "wokeness" by the university?
By the way, what is your evidence Trump is intelligent?
Is this appropriate for a judge to say?
"I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues, and that’s what I try to do"
Harvard Law Review remains incredibly racist in its selection criteria, even after it was supposedly outlawed.
What does that have to do with Brown's IQ ? She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. Is it your position that they gave her that honor because she is black?
What total horseshit. You, Sean of NT, claim the ability to determine the IQ of justices by observation.
Define smart.
I don't think you can.
Translation: “I know she is stupid because she’s just so stupid.”
What is sad is that you don’t see how stupidly circular your argument is.
Just for the sake of argument, let’s assume that’s true. How do you account for her graduating? Or passing the Bar Exam?
Before you answer, you may not be aware that law school exams and bar exams are taken and graded anonymously.
he doesn't. he has certain words he has to say every day whether they make sense or not
What is sad is (1) you don't know what a circular argument is" (2) you don't seem to grasp that my opinion has the same basis who attack Trump's IQ, yet because of your intense bias don't even apply your own dumb standard to them.
Why would that contradict what I wrote? Pay attention
Lol. And all the people here who claim to know Trump's IQ are giving him objective tests?
Of course you can tell comparative intelligence among the judges, particularly when their is a gross disparity. They publish contending opinions and argue in public. I'd hope anyone could see patterns of who consistently creates more logically compelling and consistent arguments and who does not. Are you incapable of perceiving relative intelligence?
Hell, many folks diagnose Trump as being insane without ever meeting him.
Do you think Trump is more intelligent than a Supreme Court justice? We will start preparing the rubber room.
Have you ever read any of his "holiday" messages ?
Yes. And?
Do they seem like works of intelligence to you?
I do not see anyone claiming to know Trump's IQ. Show me where you are seeing this.
Regardless, you have no idea the IQ of any of the justices and it is foolish to claim you can determine their IQs or even relative IQs by observation. Remember the idiotic claim you made:
Total nonsense.
When the differences are subtle (as would be the case with justices) the determination would be highly subjective if one is simply observing. Concluding that one justice has a low IQ is idiotic. Compelling arguments, etc. differ based on one's ideology. I suspect that is what is going on with your 'assessment'.
IQ is not something one merely judges by observation. It is determined based on a test and comparison with statistical norms. Further, IQ measures select cognitive ability; not all that we consider to be intelligence. So, again, your claim is absurd.
In the case of Trump, the differences are stark. Surely you can observe his stream of truly stupid decisions (starting with tariffs) and constant flip-flops when his stupid moves fail. These indicate that he is not someone who should be chastising others for having a low IQ. He is obviously a gifted con-man and cult-leader, but demonstrably sucks in the important factors of constructive leadership.
I would like to see the case for concluding Trump is above average intelligence - it certainly hasnt occurred in the past 11 years.
This isn't really about Jackson supposedly having a low IQ for these Trump suckers, it's more about the white male Trump sycophants assuming they're more intelligent than both women and black people and this bullshit Trump narrative about Jackson just feeds right into that. Let's face it, Trump and his supporters are not very smart, they are the lowest common denominator in America, so they are desperate not to lose relevancy and to not look stupid which have both happened and continue to happen every day. So of course, the dumb shit attempt to show themselves intelligent is to try and cherry pick what they see as an easy target, a progressive black woman who doesn't agree with them, therefore, in their tiny, deluded minds, she must be the stupid one. Of course, the exact opposite is true, but these rightwing conservative morons won't ever admit it even if they know the truth deep down in their hard little bigoted hearts. No, it's better for them to double down on stupidity, double down on Trump even as he's ripping our country apart, inflating gas prices, starting unnecessary wars, ballooning the deficit and debt, sending his Gestapo into our streets, there just isn't anything these Trump boot lickers won't do for him or justify for him.
Of course not. But is does not prove insanity.
You literally upvoted a claim that Trump's IQ is about 95. Not to mention other claims about it being "average" or lower. At least try and participate in good faith.
he justices and it is foolish to claim you can determine their IQs or even relative IQs by observation
the differences are subtle (as would be the case with justices) the determination would be highly subjective
They aren't subtle. As I said, its like watching a conventionally good basketball player try and play in the NBA. They can't keep it up and it shows. The really sad part is she doesn't even seem to realize how outclassed she is.
Q is not something one merely judges by observation
Says the person endorsing claims about Trump's IQ based on observation...
Bullshit (endless). That was a report of Al Capone's IQ based on tests. Go read @3.1.6 again. DP suggested "likely similar to" and did not claim Trump's IQ is 95.
You are being ridiculous. You claimed:
You have no basis for such a claim.
And you post yet another lie.
Right, these must be the 'conventionally good basketball players' you refer to...
...versus Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Sure, some whiny bigots will complain about or be intimidated by her unconventional style, but the fact that she is highly intelligent is an obvious slam dunk.
Trump is a perpetual liar. . . he is somewhere on the planet lying 'right now' thereabouts. And you continue to dare to criticize any one whom opinion is different from your own just to keep 'faith' with a pathological liar about any and everything. It must be 'nice' to want to see your fellow Americans on whom you depend just as much as they depend on you suffer from policies DESIGNED ("Project 2025") and ENACTED to damage and destroy their lives, liberties, and prosperity.
All in the name of an ideology. This hatred of liberals and where it really does exist this hatred of conservatives has to come to a quick DEATH POLITICALLY.
It is reaping havoc on our society has a whole, and on specific groups of citizens particularly.
Finally, as a nation, we are losing the surrounding world, as our 'branding' (reputation) is taking a definite hit. It was hard to build our national 'brand' in and across the world (even our enemies respected the fact that we cared-though they could not openly and often admit it). . . , so now we are at risk. . . what happens when world nations decide that they PREFER Americans just stay home (Away) or worse, they start abusing, kidnapping, murdering us in their respective lands?
What Trump is doing with his chaotic approach to politics is going to get Americans around and across the world - mistreated, abused, and ultimately many killed. Do we have to 'touchstone' (see this actually come to pass) before we can deal with this 'one' man's idea of political one-upmanship?!
I dont believe Trump has a high IQ, based on his expressed thoughts and behavior over the past 15 years (going back to his birtherism.) But if he produced an IQ test showing that he was above average I wouldnt dispute it. He is a phenomenal crook and asshole no matter what his intelligence level is.
Why is Trump calling a US Supreme Court justice "low IQ" ? As we know he has a bias against black women a mile long.
Sean, we get it already. No need to keep trying to clean up your remark. We see you. . . more than Justice Brown. . . .
What Trump has done in stirring up every aspect of our society is even rankling some of MAGA and all you can do is 'punch down' (or 'side-ways') at a Justice who is STANDING UP FOR THE VOICELESS AND DESTITUTE OF AMERICA - to get a measure (if not the whole) of justice and peace under our constitution.
It can (and should be) argued that is the duty and responsibility of the court to seek justice and nothing less than justice for all!
As for Trump, we understand he is a coarse, brutal, unsympathetic, unemphatic, even unappreciative creature in-charge of our systems for now. . . what is difficult to watch is conservative intellectuals slanting 'everything' good in this country unto themselves. . . including their actions and rhetoric. . . when even they can APPRECIATE that such conduct will not stand the test of time in a democracy. And, what makes them think this democracy will let itself be politically killed off? (Rhetorical question.)
Plus, it is obviously clear that Trump is a cut-throat businessman who uses and abuses his staff and tosses people away like trash or hulls once he is done with them. The world's old(er) nations recognize this and I am confident they will hold their own (once they take the 'measure' of and are 'done' with him) counsel to end as much good favor as they can with a man who seeks his own. . . and evidently and clearly is not seeking theirs mutually!
Now we can see why it is not good to let chaos-makers/players run our national and foreign policies. . . the 'mad-man' approach backfires (as it should) every time. The world's nations simply 'release' and disconnects from us. . . in takes a minimalist approach to us. . . until our nation returns to 'sanity' through new elections of a leader that makes sense. In other words, they do not have to take 'anything' we serve up. . .just because we are the U.S.A (full of itself)!
The potential word cloud that is building regarding this presidency in and across the world: Hawkish; Thuggish; Ugly Americans; Abandon; Deserted.
The good news is, unless she is found impeachable, your 'concern' and complaint is just that of an 'unhappy camper' and she will likely not 'stay off your lawn' (to mix metaphors) when it comes to judicial opining. BTW, it would never cross my mind to question the intelligence of a conservative justice (and you have heard my criticisms of Justice Thomas) even when I disagree with it. Why? Because unless he is conducting himself as an angry man or zealot - standing on criticizing his intelligence won't fly! That is, whatever my differences are with Thomas and the other conservatives it is not that they are not learned individuals.
Albeit, in Thomas' case his record shows he was Assistant Attorney General in Missouri (four years thereabouts) and an Appeals court judge (18 months) and was picked by President Bush (41st) to our Supreme Court where he has been serving for thirty plus years thereabouts.
The above paragraph is an example of a conservative "somehow finding his way" to the court, and yet since he is a conservative and has conservative 'stick-ability' in his opining/s. . . you won't question his IQ.
He is criticizing her because it is what he does when somebody threatens his 'world' of things. He is a truly bitter man. One would think that surrounded by the world. . . he would want its approval. . .and respect. . . instead he would rather prefer global groveling and obeisance!
“She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.”
Yet she can’t define the word “woman.”
Do you actually believe that this justice is not intelligent? So what is the value of continuing this nonsense?
Regardless of partisanship, it should be clear that all SCotUS justices are intelligent, accomplished individuals.
Of course, a woman can define what she is (and what she isn't). When Ketanji Brown Jackson was interviewed for the rise to the court she 'confirmed' she would base her answer on what a woman is not on a simplicity in biology, and on the complexity of what the contrasts in law brought forth for the (high) court to contemplate.
So you can let that nonsense go now.
Do you not understand what "likely similar to" means? Keeping doubling down on the dishonesty.
You have no basis for such a claim.
Of course I do. She's a prolific writer.
And you post yet another lie.
You can gaslight all you want but anyone can see you gave a thumbs up to a subjective estimate of Trump's IQ while claiming it's impossible to even form a comparative estimate of Jackson. It's like watching a crumb covered kid with a half a donut on his plate claiming he touched the donut.
Why can’t she define what a woman is?
Your claim that she has a low IQ is absurd. No amount of lying from you will correct your idiotic claim.
She said that she cannot define a woman from a biological perspective since she is not a biologist. She was stifling an attempted gotcha during confirmation hearings.
Do you actually believe she truly could not define a woman from any number of perspectives in a private exchange?
Get serious.
Your claim that she has a low IQ is absurd,
good thing for me I never said that.
Yet she couldn’t do what an elementary school child could do.
Just a run of the mill woke idiot. She needs a biologist to differentiate between a man or a women is all you need to know about her. Being a graduate of the kamala school of word salads doesn't make her look any better.
Good thing too! Because complexity in law (and in being adult) goes way beyond being just a kid. Just ask 'one.'
Well, since some conservatives 'live' for the simplistic answers in life, she thought it instructive to remind them that people can be complex when it comes to the law putting its meaning/s into their lives.
Okay you are just trolling.
Nobody of normal intelligence believes a justice of the SCotUS cannot do what an elementary school child could do.
Offer something of value.
Typical partisan bullshit. She is not of your chosen party so you engage in ridiculous, obtuse criticism. What do you hope to gain by pretending this woman is so stupid that she does not know the difference between a man and a woman?
Pathetic.
Why couldn’t she answer the question?
It is what some conservatives do. . .mock and demonize individuals whom they will not even try to comprehend the truth. It's dangerously pathetic and an error in judgement.
She is not a biologist, and clearly the answer was to be more COMPLEX that it was dignified by the Supreme Court where it was "rocket docketed" and even then not given a proper and thorough proceeding - which was another COMPLAINT Justice Jackson had about "the question."
Also, such remarking on the 'question' of what is a woman would have been 'weaponized' at the high court using Ms. Jackson's general answer when as any judge can tell you - case law-should properly be consulted in these matters requiring deeper understanding and reflections to craft a long-lasting answer. That is, a simple answer can mislead and legally disaffect people unnecessarily and otherwise cause grief and great bodily harm - all based on a misunderstanding of the law. Or, some such wording to this effect!
I guess you are not supposed to take the words that came out of her mouth as an actual answer.
Yet every word out of trumps mouth should be taken literally.
The righties here have strove mightily to take down someone who graduated with the highest honors from one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Just when you think you've seen everything.
It is just trolling, JR. Anything to take the attention away from the idiot they support for PotUS.
This is what you said.
Another dishonest comment.
You know damn well that Trump critics consistently note that he is a pathological liar. So you are just making shit up to complain. A strawman.
In this deranged tweet Trump claims he is "an extraordinarily brilliant person" . Who other than his cult believes that?
Right Donald, take another fistful of Sudafed and go back to the closet.
From Trump's comment:
Sounds like he is actually betting on the outcomes of elections now. Sorry Donald, you didn't make the spread.
On the bright side, he does admit that the Presidential elections were a dead heat and not the landslide that he and his obsequious crew have been claiming.
Ohhh, that's right.
He is (perpetually) claiming malfeasance against whomever he sees as the opposition, regardless of the lack of evidence for the same. This is a general statement of intent, a method of operation for him. He has always done it, suing, because it gums up the works and puts him at the advantage because he usually has deeper pockets. Now he has the diminished capabilities of the US government at his disposal, as well as millions of dollars worth of pro-bono pledged legal time, he has virtually no cost to harass, prosecute, and otherwise persecute those whom he sees as enemies.
And his ass-lickers keep lapping it up.
What is highly probable to happen is Trump is going to 'wake' the one beast (not China) he never wishes to become 'Woke': The democratic party's RETRIBUTION! By which point, his 'grand scheme' of receding quietly into the background as a former president (if that is even possible for him) and 'bathing' in the luxury/ies of his ill-gotten gains and administration activities will vanish.
The real mystery is how Trump somehow found his way to the presidency. Once, much less twice.
But that's like asking how Jim Jones found his way to being the leader of a cult in Guyana. It doesn't happen without a lot of very gullible people convinced by a cult leader that he will be able to create a society for them and around them that will make them happier and stop what they see as the erosion of their societal privilege. It's a lot like a religion only with the cult leader becoming their God. But as the creator of that conservative AI female that scammed a bunch of them said "The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it". I think it's pretty clear that having super dumb supporters is a prerequisite for an incompetent joke of a clown like Trump to be elected President.
Yes, it seems to be the same dynamic as a cult.
Here is the clencher: On the year that Trump leaves office for good. . . it is highly probable that he will spend the remainder of his days. . . trying to hold onto whatever ILL-GOTTEN and 'INCONCLUSIVE' gains he amassed for himself in office. The investigations, the lawsuits, the claims of injury-professional and personal stemming back to his time in office (I know he thinks he is covered by the office itself). . . will be upsetting his 'retirement' from politics and public office.
That said, who can say? All of that (above) could be a way for Trump to maintain himself as 'forever young' (and not suffering from a 'depleted' mind).