When President Donald Trump this week attacked Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, two of America's most prominent Black figures, he chose a particularly pejorative insult: "low IQ person."
Trump insults people all the time -- online, in speeches, in official statements and directly to the faces of some reporters.
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