Representative Al Green, who interrupted Trump’s joint session address, “should be forced to pass an IQ test because he is a low IQ individual, and we don’t need low IQ individuals in Congress,” Trump told HeadlinesForever Digital on Thursday.
Green (D-Texas) was censured by the House of Representatives on Thursday for disrupting the president’s joint session speech to Congress on Tuesday. The vote was bipartisan.
For his part, the president called Green “a fool and a clown.”
“Nobody takes him seriously,” Trump informed HeadlinesForever Digital. “He is an embarrassment to Congress but a much bigger embarrassment to the Democrats.”
After the 77-year-old Democrat twice interrupted the president at the start of his speech, he was excused from Tuesday night’s joint address to Congress.
Noting Republican successes in the House, Senate, and White House, he yelled out, “You have no mandate!” towards Trump.
U.S. Sergeant-at-Arms Green was dismissed at House Speaker Mike Johnson’s request.
Green, speaking to the White House press pool on Tuesday night following his expulsion from the House chamber, stated that he was “prepared to accept whatever punishment is available to me. Nobody heard me say, “don’t punish me;” I already declared I’d take a beating.
“But it’s worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this president’s desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security,” he stated, according per the pool’s findings.
When HeadlinesForever Digital reached out to Green for comment, he did not react right away.