President Trump slammed California Gov. Gavin Newsom as unfit for the White House because he has “mental problems” in a thinly veiled reference to Joe Biden.
Speaking at an event in northern Kentucky on Wednesday, Trump said the governor “admitted he has mental problems, that he’s not a smart person.”
In his memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry,” Newsom wrote about his struggle with dyslexia, a common learning disability.
“He’s unable to read a speech, he can’t read, and all of the other things he said. He said he has a lot of mental problems,” Trump said of Newsom.
“Nothing’s wrong with it, but I don’t want the President of the United States to have a cognitive deficiency,” Trump said.
“When he admitted this, I said, I think he just lost the Democrat nomination,” he added.
Newsom fired back the president in a post on his press office’s X account, sharing a clip of Trump’s remarks while adding a similar jab.
“Grandpa’s talking about himself again. We wish him well — it’s never too late to seek mental treatment,” the post read.
Newsom revealed in the past that he was diagnosed with dyslexia in 1972, when he was around 5 years old.
The diagnosis was thrust back into the spotlight after he mentioned the disorder at an event in Atlanta last month while promoting his new memoir.
The governor’s comments followed an earlier attack from his press office on X. The post called out Trump’s swollen ankles this week after a photo spread online. The image showed Secretary of State Marco Rubio in shoes that seemed too big, bringing back an ongoing debate about Trump’s gift-giving and his visible health issues.
“Maybe Trump just assumes everyone else has swollen ankles,” the governor’s press office wrote on X.
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