A new petition on the White House website demands that President Donald Trump take an IQ test while in office.
The petition, which as of Tuesday morning still needs more than 99,000 signatures in order to get a response from the Trump administration, is short and to the point: It asks that Trump take an IQ test from MENSA, the well-known “high IQ-society.”
“Time and time again, Donald Trump has touted himself to be a brilliant man with a tremendously high IQ,” the petition reads. “For whatever reason, telling people how smart he is appears to be very important to him—and since his presidency thus far has allowed for all types of trivial engagements, he should simply shut down the non-believers and have his IQ formally tested. This would serve to substantiate his claims, and lend credibility to his decision-making skills to bipartisan U.S. citizens.”
The petition was created on July 20.
Trump has repeatedly said that he is very smart and during the 2016 election campaign boasted that he alone was able to “fix” America.
In February, when speaking to the National Sheriff’s Association, Trump talked about his highly controversial travel ban that bars access to the country for people from several majority Muslim nations—with a few (disputed) exceptions.
Trump said his travel ban was simple to understand and added that he was a good student.
“I was a good student. I comprehend very well, OK, better than I think almost anybody,” Trump reportedly said.
During the campaign, Trump also bragged about having a “good brain” on MSNBC’s Morning Joe—a show that he would put squarely in the middle of his Twitter crosshairs soon enough.
“I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things. … I know what I’m doing and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot of people and at the appropriate time I’ll tell you who the people are,” Trump said. “But I speak to a lot of people. My primary consultant is myself, and I have, you know, I have a good instinct for this stuff.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2lBz0532wU
The petition had just under 300 signatures as of Tuesday morning.