Trump has new threat for 'low IQ' AOC after her most recent 'smear campaign'
A reporter asked Trump at the White House whether he had a comment on AOC's upcoming planned meeting with NYC mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, whom the president has called a 'radical' and a 'communist.'
'AOC — look, I think she's very nice but she's very Low IQ and we really don't need low IQ,' Trump told members of the media at the White House on Tuesday.
'Between her and Crockett, we're going to give them both an IQ test to see who comes out best,' the president added.
Ocasio-Cortez made headlines for unhinged remarks she posted on social media earlier this week regarding Trump's administration failure to release the full Epstein files.
AOC jumped into the growing online fury at Trump, accusing him of being a 'rapist' and alleging it's the real reason he has not released the files.
'Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?' she wrote sarcastically on X.
Last week, DOJ and FBI leaked an unsigned memo concluding convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in prison in August 2019 and did not hold a 'client list' of high-profile co-conspirators.
The memo said that no more people would be arrested, charged or convicted in the Epstein child sex trafficking case, which angered some in the MAGA base.
. @POTUS: "AOC — look, I think she's very nice but she's very Low IQ and we really don't need low IQ. Between her and Crockett, we're going to give them both an IQ test to see who comes out best." 😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/ycIZmenwLL
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 15, 2025
Trump was found liable of sexually abusing author E. Jean Carroll in a 2023 civil trial. He was not, however, found liable of rape - a distinction the New York Democrat did not make in her post.
Conservative X users were quick to jump to the president's defense comparing AOC's comments to remarks made by ABC host George Stephanopoulos, which led to Trump suing for defamation and eventually winning $15 million.
South Carolina GOP Congresswoman Nancy Mace called AOC's remarks a 'smear campaign.'
'She should lawyer up. Truth still matters, even if the Left's forgotten. We're not done fighting. Not even close,' Mace added.
Former Fox News Contributor and present DOJ Senior Counsel Leo Terrell wrote on his personal X account that 'President Trump has a perfect defamation case against non-lawyer @AOC.'
'I suggest she obtained a second job as a bartender. She will need a lawyer,' Terrell added.
Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin wrote: 'Why didn't you guys release the Epstein files over the last 4 years? Maybe you were too busy covering for Joe Biden… or, could it have something to do with another former Democrat President?' in his own reply to Ocasio-Cortez.
Conservative commentator Joe Concha wrote on X that 'the congresswoman is absolutely begging to get sued for defamation…' referencing the ABC suit.
Trump's MAGA base is still fuming that the Epstein files have not been entirely released to the public.
Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi last week was forced to retract her statement that the files were 'sitting on my desk' and instead told the American people that there was, in fact, no 'client list.'
The DOJ also released last week a video showing the outside of Epstein's cell at the Manhattan jail where he allegedly hanged himself.
Ex-Fox personality turned independent journalist Carlson is one the biggest voices sowing division in Trump's MAGA-right.
During a speech at Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit this weekend, Carlson went after the Trump admin for the alleged Epstein 'cover-up.'
Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly, a one-time Trump enemy turned ally during the 2024 election wrote on X that she was 'sure it's a relief for Pam Bondi to hear the president is still in her corner.'
But, she added: 'Huge swaths of the party are not. She repeatedly misled on Epstein. Then didn't have the courage to explain herself. Suddenly, she's camera shy & no Qs allowed. Good luck!'
Steve Bannon, one of Trump's fiercest media allies, suggested at the Turning Point conference in Tampa that the so-called Deep State would block the president from going near the Epstein files.
'Epstein is a key that picks the lock on so many things, not just individuals, but also Institutions, Intelligence, Institutions, Foreign Governments, and who was working with him on our Intelligence Apparatus and in our Government,' Bannon said.
FBI head Kash Patel and deputy Dan Bongino are both ready to call it quits if Attorney General Pam Bondi keeps her job after the debacle over releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Bongino, the FBI's deputy director, made the ultimatum after an epic clash with Bondi on Wednesday over the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, the Daily Mail revealed this week.
The rift was so bad that Bongino took the day off work on Friday, leading some to think that he had already left his post.
Meanwhile, Trump's congressional allies are doing their best to play both sides on the issue of Epstein, hoping to remain in the good graces of both Trump and his base, which is undoubtedly splintering.
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most MAGA-aligned voices on the right said during an appearance on Real America's Voice (RAV) last week that she for one wasn't buying that there wasn't more to the Epstein story.
'I think the Department of Justice and the FBI has more explaining to do. This is Jeffrey Epstein; this is the most famous pedophile in modern-day history,' Taylor Greene told RAV.
'And people are absolutely not going to accept just a memo that was written that says there is no client list,' Taylor Greene concluded.
Noting that some MAGA influencers have gone off the rails, Wexler told the Daily Mail 'that they're turning the party into what I told my friends the Republican Party wasn't for the last two decades, and now we actually are, like, they're just turning the party into exactly what my liberal friends said we are.'
Now, Trump has to sail the rough seas of his own making.
In a post to his Truth Social platform this weekend, Trump tried his best to push for unity in the MAGA camp.
'We're on one Team, MAGA, and I don't like what's happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and 'selfish people' are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,' Trump wrote.
He added that America should 'not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody nobody cares about.'
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