Still reeling from reports that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called him a “moron,” President Donald Trump boasted on Friday that he would best Tillerson in an IQ test.
In an interview with Forbes published Tuesday morning, Trump denied that Tillerson did actually call him a “moron,” but said that if reports were true, he may have to compare IQs with his secretary of state.
“I think it’s fake news, but if he did that, I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win,” Trump told Forbes.
NBC News reported last week that Tillerson called Trump a “moron,” setting off the President. Since the report, Trump has attacked NBC News and denied the outlet’s reporting on Tillerson’s comments.
The secretary of state held a press conference just to clarify his positive feelings about Trump, but did not directly deny calling the President a moron. A spokesperson for Tillerson later denied that he made the comment.
Trump’s anger did not subside after his secretary of state groveled via press conference, however. The president has reportedly been fuming over the report and continued to attack NBC over the weekend.
Someone please make it stop.
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Tillerson should let it slip that he’s willing to take on Trump any day.
What do you bet trump took one of those click bait things that suggested he’s a genius? Of course he believes that. Can’t anyone just throw a net over this lunatic?
I think I saw the other day he claims his IQ is 203. He might as well have said 320, because 203 is 40 points higher than Stephen Hawking. Trump was maybe a 107 on the best day he ever had, and that was when Eisenhower was President. ETA that 203 may have been a joke from one of those parody Twitter accounts that sprang up last winter. God knows he’d claim anything. He did say his IQ was “one of the highest.”
Heck, it’s 11 points higher than mine. Unfortunately, I didn’t score high enough to get a job writing a trivia column for Parade magazine.