President Donald Trump didn’t hold back during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, blasting California Governor Gavin Newsom as a “very stupid person.”
Trump was discussing Newsom’s presidential aspirations.
“Gavin Newscum, who is one of the candidates, I believe, took himself out of the running when he said he suffers from mental disability,” Trump said. “And a reporter said it was terrible that I talked that way about somebody with mental disability. I said, I have no problem with it, but I don’t want a person with mental disability to be my president.”
Trump continued: “I mean, you don’t want to have a person with mental disability being your president … and Gavin Newsom said that he can’t read a speech. He can’t do almost anything. And then he said he’s as dumb as all the people in the room. And he got accused of being a racist, which was an amazing thing. I thought it was the worst interview I’ve ever seen anybody give.”
“He’s actually a very stupid person. So I believe he’s out of the running. I think that that statement, that interview, he admitted that he’s a stupid person,” Trump added.
“I don’t want a stupid person being president. You know, I’ll say it right now. I say it because no press ever reports it. I’m the only president who has ever taken a cognitive test. I took it three times.”
Watch the clip above.