Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett Accepts Jimmy Kimmel’s Offer to Compete Against President Trump in An IQ Test Challenge

President Donald Trump claimed that Texas congresswoman Jasmine Crockett could never beat him in a battle of wits. Jimmy Kimmel is giving him a chance to prove it, and the President should take it — just think of the ratings!

Earlier this week, after passing a cognitive test designed to screen him for dementia, President Trump bragged to reporters about his results and challenged multiple prominent Democrats to undergo the same “name the zoo animal” exam that he allegedly aced. Trump appeared to be under the impression that the test administered by doctors at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center was intended to measure his IQ, but context clues and basic logical abilities led observers to deduce that the 79-year-old president was actually referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a common exam given to the elderly that measures cognitive decline and detects early signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s.

When Trump called out Crockett and her fellow congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, claiming that they couldn’t possibly meet his score in the “aptitude test,” Kimmel graciously offered to give his old foe the opportunity to best both women with a head-to-head examination on national television. Then, last night, Crockett appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to announce that she will gladly take the Presidential Mental Fitness Test, so long as the Commander-in-Chief himself is ready to put his crayons where his mouth is.

“He can’t seem to find himself in the Oval Office to make sure that he can end this shutdown, but he does have time to troll me, so, listen, if he’s down, I’m down,” Crockett said of how Trump publicly challenged her to beat his high score of four colors and twelve shapes on the “very hard” dementia test.

Kimmel then asked his surprise guest, “Do you notice any kind of a pattern when it comes to people he frequently refers to as ‘low-IQ people’?”

“They tend to be women, and they tend to be women of color,” Crockett answered, referring to the fact that she, Ocasio-Cortez and Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar are all Trump’s favorite targets for these kind of outrageous public challenges.

“Okay, so you are smart!” Kimmel joked of Crockett’s response. 

The host then challenged Crockett to answer one of the questions that Trump tackled during the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, responding with feigned elation when Crockett could correctly identify a picture of an elephant. Crockett similarly aced another curveball on Trump’s touted “aptitude test,” easily remembering a string of five simple words.

Crockett wholeheartedly accepted Trump’s challenge to compare scores on the brain degeneration exam, noting that she would be happy to hold the Kimmel-produced, nationally televised event in the “smoldering hole that used to be the East Wing of the White House.” That setting, however, might pose a challenge to Kimmel’s efforts to get the president on board — cardinal directions aren’t covered by the dementia test.