Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is taking President Donald Trump’s latest foray into blatant ableism pretty personally.
The Republican lawmaker was asked by the Independent Wednesday about her thoughts regarding Trump’s latest attack on California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
On Monday, the president told reporters in the Oval Office that Newsom, who Trump has dubbed “Newscum,” is unfit to be president because he has dyslexia, a type of learning disability that makes it difficult to read.
“With a low-IQ person, you know, because Gavin ‘Newscum’ has admitted that he is a — that he has learning disabilities,” Trump, a man who looked at a solar eclipse with his bare eyeballs, said. “Honestly, I’m all for people with learning disabilities, but not for my president. I don’t want — I think the president should not have learning disabilities.”
While responding to the Independent on Wednesday, Murkowski began with one simple question.
