before today , it was bring out that the President of the United Stateschallengedhis very own Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to an IQ test to prove who was the smartest of them all . If you suppose that was unusual , well things just took a bit for the surreal .
As cover byThe Hill , American Mensa – the US chapter of the eminent IQ society – said that they would “ be happy to view as a testing academic session for President Trump and Secretary Tillerson . ”
Charles Brown , the organisation ’s communication director , go down to say if any former chairwoman had already join this somewhat exclusive grouping , but he hinted that a few of them – including George H.W. Bush , Jimmy Carter , and Bill Clinton – may have issue forth across like IQ - testing examinations in their earlier life sentence and that they were likely to be eligible to become members .
To this offer , we have but a simple motion : Who would n’t pay adept money to see this intelligence quotient confrontation ?
Tensions between Tillerson and Trump have beenbuilding for some time , but it appears that they ’ve reached a unexampled zenith with this strange maraud into IQ scores .
After an NBC News storyallegedthat the Secretary of State call Trump a “ bloody moron ” in a private setting , the President subsequently sat down for an interview withForbes , where he touched on the matter .
“ I think it ’s bogus news . But if he did [ say ] that , I judge we ’ll have to compare intelligence quotient tests , ” he secern the magazine . “ And I can tell apart you who is going to win . ”
Trump is perennially haunted with his I.Q. , something whichchangescontinuously over sentence . It ’s afairly circumscribed measureof smarting , but Trump has nevertheless drop geezerhood boasting about his own personal score – which he ’s never actually reveal – and challenge other multitude to take a test with him .
Back in 2013 , for representative , he challenged Mark Cuban , a frequent critic of his , to an IQ struggle , and he once bear on to former Republican Presidential campaigner competition Jeb Bush as someone who ’s “ take no IQ … same as his brother . ”
He seems to have take umbrage , onmultiple occasions , to the whimsey that former President Obama may have a high IQ than he does .
In any compositor’s case , consequence this strange deserve a apt quotation from Stephen Hawking , who , when askedback in 2004by the New York Times about his own I.Q. , responded that “ the great unwashed who boast about their IQ are nonstarter ” . Quite .
