Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, has responded to President Trump calling her someone with “low IQ.” On Monday, October 27, the president spoke to reporters while on Air Force One and boasted that he could perform better than her and congresswoman Jasmine Crockett at the cognitive test he took at Walter Reed Medical Center. AOC has since took a jab at the president having passed the test that is meant to assess for dementia and cognitive decline and doesn’t determine IQ.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responds to Donald Trump’s attack on her intelligence
“They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ,” the president said. “Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They’re cognitive tests.”
Specifically, the test he took is called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), an assessment that takes 10 minutes to complete and evaluates memory, attention, and brain function.
“Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump,” he continued. “The first couple of questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe. When you get up to about five or six, then you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.”
Hours later, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez jabbed back with a response on X (formerly Twitter): “Out of curiosity, did those doctors ask you to draw a lock by chance? Was that part hard for you, too? Asking for 340 million people.”
This refers to the MoCA asking respondents to perform simple tasks like identifying animals, repeating back a list of words, and drawing a picture of a clock. In April, Trump’s physician provided a statement that the president had passed the MoCA with a score of 30 out of 30 and that further examination “revealed no abnormalities in his mental status, cranial nerves, motor and sensory function, reflexes, gait, and balance.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude from Boston University in 2007 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Relations and Economics.
