A video of U.S. President Donald Trump saying smart people do not like him has gone viral.
The clip was shared on social media after Trump made a speech at the Hope Through Education gala at his Bedminster golf club on Saturday, September 13.
“Smart people don’t like me, you know? And they don’t like what we talk about,” Trump told attendees.
Highlights
- Donald Trump said smart people don’t like him during a speech at his Bedminster golf club gala.
- Trump discussed Tyler Robinson's radicalization after allegedly killing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
- The viral video of Trump’s remarks was widely shared and viewed millions of times on social media.
- Trump announced a 'major investigation' into left-leaning groups following Kirk’s assassination.
Donald Trump told gala attendees that smart people don’t like him
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The president made the remarks as he was talking about Tyler Robinson, who is suspected of shooting and killing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
“He’s [Robinson] become totally radicalized and crazy, and it must have been traumatic because the parents are conservative people — supposed to be very nice people — living in Utah, and the father turns in the son,” Trump said.
“Boy, that’s a tough deal. Actually, I asked somebody in the FBI, how often does that happen where, knowing even the guilt, that a father will turn in or parents will turn in the son. And he said, ‘Almost never.’”
The video was shared on Instagram by Republican strategist Nicole Kiprilov, and a snippet of it was later reshared on X by Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
“I agree! Soooo does MAGA know what this means he thinks of them?” Crockett wrote.
The clip has been viewed over 3 million times.
In response to Crockett’s comments and Trump’s speech, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told The Daily Beast, “All three of Jasmine Crockett’s brain cells are infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
The comments come as Trump has announced a “major investigation” into left-leaning groups following Kirk’s assassination.
Kirk was the co-founder of Turning Point USA, an organization that advocated for conservative politics on school and college campuses.
“If you look at the problem, the problem is on the left. It’s not on the right, like some people like to share the right, the problem we have is on the left,” Trump told reporters Sunday.
Trump said left-leaning groups are ‘already under investigation’ following the death of Charlie Kirk
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“And when you look at the agitator, you look at the scum that speaks so badly of our country, the American flag burnings all over the place, that’s the left. That’s not the right.”
He did not provide details on which groups will be investigated, saying: “We’ll see. We’ll be announcing.”
Trump further claimed that some left-leaning groups are already under investigation, but again did not provide details.
“A lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left,” he said, adding, “They’re already under investigation.”