Trump says Biden has 'certainly a low IQ'
The US president has used his favorite platform, Twitter, to attack his rival's ability
There is a little more than four months left for the Americans to decide at the polls the re-election of Donald Trump and the campaign begins to go down to the mud. The US president has used his favorite platform, Twitter, to attack the ability of his rival, Joe Biden, the 'de facto' candidate of the Democrats.
Trump is used to using derogatory nicknames with his political rivals. He calls the Democratic candidate "Sleepy" ('sleepy', 'slow') Joe, in an accusation of Biden's mental deterioration. This Sunday he went a step further and assured that "nobody wants a person with a low IQ in charge of the country, and 'Sleepy' Joe is without a doubt a person with a low IQ."
Trump, who has described himself as a "very stable genius", later shared videos posted on the same social network, a member of the White House communication team, with attacks and mockery of Biden.
In one of them, an electoral propaganda video, it is ensured that Biden is "clearly diminished" and that he does not have "the strength, vigor and mental toughness" to be president of the United States. Biden is 77 years old and Trump has just of turning 74. The argument of physical and mental health was already used by the president in the 2016 campaign to attack his then-rival, Hillary Clinton.
Now he urgently needs to deteriorate the image of Biden, who has opened a gap in the polls amid the health and economic crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the protests over abuses against the black minority. A poll published this week gave the Democratic candidate a 14-point lead, an unusual distance between presidential candidates at this point in the campaign.
The messages attacking Biden came after Trump's account deleted a tweet in which he applauded a group of retirees demonstrating for him in a Florida suburb. "Thank you to the good folks at The Villages," he said, referring to that retirement community near Orlando. At the beginning of the video, one of the pro-Trump protesters yells "White Power!", a racist slogan. Trump deleted the tweet, and the White House said the president "didn't hear" that comment. "What he did see was the great enthusiasm of his fans," the statement added.
Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator, called Trump's tweet "indefensible."
