Democratic Congressman Al Green delivered a fiery speech on the floor of the U.S. House, accusing President Donald Trump of using "low IQ" insults as racially charged rhetoric. Green argued that such language has become "less a dog whistle and more a bullhorn," while defending Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries, Kamala Harris, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. He also issued a dramatic warning, predicting that Trump could face impeachment again and declaring that a political "day of reckoning" is coming. Watch the full speech and key moments from Green’s explosive remarks.
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00:00And Mr. President, you should know you will be impeached again. You will be
00:07three times impeached. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, and still I rise. And I rise,
00:16Mr. Speaker, as I always do, unbought, unbossed, unafraid, and now I must also
00:26add unelected, a liberated Democrat, truly liberated. Liberated to the extent
00:37that while I have been censured, I have not been silenced. While I have now been
00:48unelected, I will not be silent. My agenda remains the same. It is still the
00:55agenda that deals with the voices of those that are not heard in this house
01:02as they should be. The voices of the least, the last, and the lost. The least among us.
01:09Persons who don't inherit a legacy of much, but actually a legacy of poverty, not
01:16plenty. Persons who are among the lost in a society as rich as ours, where persons
01:24find themselves lost in places of despair, living in places that you and I would not
01:32consider a place habitable. The least, and the lost, and of course the last. The last
01:40would be those persons who are the last to be hired and the first to be fired. The
01:46least, the last, and the lost. But I also represent other people, and I will continue to do so. I
01:53represent
01:53those persons who suffer invidious discrimination. They are among the LGBTQIA plus
01:59community. They are women. They are persons who are of the Islamic faith. They are persons who are
02:09currently suffering from anti-semitism. They are persons who are suffering because of the color of their skin.
02:16So today I rise to speak on the topic, invidious discrimination emanating from the presidency.
02:27Invidious discrimination emanating from the presidency. And I'd like to call to the attention of the
02:34listening audience and viewing audience an article from the Huffington Post, the HuffPost. And this article is
02:44styled. Trump used his go-to insult in interview after Nick's loss. That would not be the last game of
02:55course, the game prior to this one. And after Nick's loss, and experts say it's a pattern. We're talking about
03:04his go-to insult. And I must commend Miss Katie Mather for the outstanding job she has done with this
03:12article. It has the date, June 9th,
03:162026, as its date of publication. I'd like to read some excerpts from this because I think it will give
03:25us an opportunity to
03:26understand how the Trump presidency has not only impacted what he does, but also some other aspects of society.
03:37So this is truly invidious discrimination emanating from the presidency. Let me read some excerpts. The first reads,
03:45First take, host Stephen A. Smith slammed President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning after Trump told reporters on Monday night
03:57that
03:58Smith wouldn't be a good fit to run for president because you need a high IQ. My dear friends, if
04:08I may say brothers and sisters, because I
04:10truly believe that there's but one race and that's the human race. So if I may just say my dear
04:14brothers and sisters.
04:17Friends, you may call Stephen A. Smith many things. I probably would not agree with anything that is negative. I
04:26don't
04:26know a negative side of him. I know that he is opinionated, but that's not unusual in the United States
04:32of America to have
04:33people who are opinionated. It is especially not unusual here in the House of Representatives. So you might call him
04:39many
04:39things, but I don't believe that you can call him a person in need of a high IQ, implying that
04:49he has a low IQ. And it goes on to
04:52say this in this article. Stephen A. Smith is brilliant. And I say this without question, reservation, or hesitation. He
05:02is one of the
05:02most brilliant people that I have seen in the sports arena. But he goes beyond sports. He talks on a
05:12multiplicity of
05:12subjects all the time. And he acquits himself well on every topic that I've heard him speak on. Now you
05:18don't have to
05:19agree with the person to understand the brilliance of the person. He has a brilliant mind. And I do believe
05:28that the
05:29president made this comment for dubious reasons. So let me continue reading from excerpts in the article.
05:38Trump's low IQ comment against Smith has racist implications. This is what the article says.
05:47racist implications and it referred to a racial dog whistle by linguistics and political experts said Dr. Karin Anderson, a
06:02communication study professor at Colorado State University. This professor is making the point that when the president says these
06:12these things about persons with low IQs, he is actually signaling to others, it is a racist dog whistle.
06:22The article goes on to say, what distinguishes a dog whistle from just an insult is it is designed to
06:33sound innocuous.
06:35The dog whistle is designed to sound as though, oh, it's harmless, just another thing someone is saying to be
06:42funny or cute.
06:44Well, not this dog whistle. And Anderson goes on to say, Anderson, who teaches courses in rhetoric, political communications,
06:55and gender and communications, told HuffPost, it is meant to be deniable. The virtue, the rhetorical appeal
07:06of a dog whistle is when you can deny that it functions in the way that it actually is designed
07:15to function.
07:15So this dog whistle is designed to appear to be innocuous, harmless, but its functionality is rooted in something else.
07:26He goes on to say that it is a term that white supremacists have historically used against people of color.
07:34And it's not the first time the president has publicly used it. Last month, he called House Minority Leader Hakeem
07:45Jeffries a thug and a low IQ person on Truth Social.
07:53This is where he speaks much of what he says to the public. But this term thug, let me focus
08:00on it for just a moment.
08:02Hakeem Jeffries he calls a thug. That's demeaning. He does this to demean people of color, but then he adds
08:12the injury to this insult of low IQ.
08:18You can accuse Hakeem Jeffries of many things, but you cannot in any way produce the empirical evidence to show
08:27that he is a person with a low IQ.
08:29He is a brilliant man, a brilliant person who has the appeal that most people understand to be that of
08:41a person with great intellect.
08:45So when the president calls him a thug and a low IQ person on Truth Social, and he did this
08:51in April, this was a means by which he could demean and insult and use the term that those who
09:00live in the world of white supremacy embrace.
09:03This is something that they readily embrace and they understand the dog whistle.
09:09They understand what the president really means when he says thug and low IQ.
09:15Let me go on. In April, he called Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson the new low IQ person on
09:27the court.
09:28The new low IQ person on the court. During the 2024 presidential election, Trump repeatedly described the former vice president,
09:41that would be Kamala Harris, as a
09:45a low IQ individual. Note what all of these people have in common. Color. African-Americans.
09:54Persons who have reached great heights in terms of their professions. Persons who are making a difference in a very
10:04positive way in our country.
10:06But the president would demean them by challenging their intellect and in so doing appeal to white supremacists who still
10:17believe that people of color have low intellect.
10:22Reading on. He applies it, meaning his low IQ comment, indiscriminately to black people in different walks of life and
10:34professions.
10:34This is what Anderson said. That's where it reveals that it's a dog whistle because it doesn't relate to anything
10:44else.
10:46Goes on to say, experts say the low IQ insult has a storied past that is a long history in
10:58the United States of this low IQ dog whistle.
11:02This is Anderson speaking again. Goes on to say, during the colonial era, white male elites took for granted that
11:14they were cognitively superior to women and people of color.
11:19And thus divinely appointed for leadership.
11:25Well, that explains a lot of the sexism that we have seen.
11:30That explains a lot of what we have seen when persons decide that they're simply going to reduce you to
11:40something less than human.
11:42By assigning you to the primate family and calling you an ape or saying that you're related to the the
11:52ape.
11:52So somehow you are an ape. Reducing people of color to to animals that have that are not as superior
12:01to life forms as some others.
12:05These animals are not persons. They exist and we want them to exist.
12:11But we don't want people to compare human beings to these animals.
12:16And the president does this.
12:18He has compared a former president and first lady to apes.
12:25We don't like to talk about this.
12:27I found that there are many people who would just rather see this just kind of go away.
12:32And let's let that just be something that he's done.
12:35Well, the president never apologized for it after saying someone else actually posted it, but he never apologized.
12:40And by the way, I don't ask him to apologize. I asked him to just tell the truth that he
12:45was this was wrong,
12:46that it should not have been posted and that he would not allow this to happen again.
12:52That would be more suitable for the the means by which he can atone for his transgression.
12:58But he hasn't done any of that. He he tends to double down.
13:02Well, this article goes on to remind us that IQ was used to justify heinous behavior like racial segregation and
13:16forced sterilization.
13:19Now, this is something another social scientist, Figueroa, has called to our attention in this article.
13:27Forced sterilization because of IQ.
13:33Actually happened in the United States of America.
13:36We have much to atone for.
13:41We as we approach this great anniversary.
13:45We would have people believe that all is well.
13:50All is not well.
13:52And all won't be well until some of our transgressions have been properly addressed.
13:58This notion that you should sterilize a woman because you believe that she has a low IQ is more than
14:07simply a crime that is statutorily illegal.
14:13It is really a crime against humanity to engage in this kind of conduct.
14:19And this actually happened.
14:22Racial segregation.
14:23After we ended the enslavement of African-Americans in this country, Africans from America, living in America, who were at
14:34the time, much of the time, not declared citizens.
14:37So let's just say Africans in America.
14:40So let's just say Africans in America.
14:41After slavery was ended, the enslavement of people for some 240 years.
14:46The people who built, had a hand in building this very facility, the Capitol, the White House, roads, bridges, planted
14:55seeds, harvested crops, fed the nation.
14:57They were the economic foundational mothers and fathers of the country.
15:01These persons, these persons, after we ended the enslavement of these persons, then we embarked upon convict leasing, which was
15:15another form of racism.
15:17Slavery itself was rooted in racism.
15:20And this whole notion of convict leasing, which would allow people who violated some code to be placed in the
15:28hands of other persons, leased out from the government or some arm of the government.
15:33And many of them died as leased persons, convicts who have been leased.
15:40There's a grave near Houston, Texas, with 95 bodies in it, persons who were convicts and leased, all in a
15:48common grave.
15:49This kind of behavior was justified based upon IQ.
15:54These were less than human.
15:56They were akin to the lower forms of animals that we would call primates.
16:02So as such, you can do almost anything to them that you'd like, and people did.
16:06So this forced sterilization and this segregation, which was a form of invidious discrimination rooted in racism, segregation rooted in
16:19racism.
16:20Many of us alive today experienced lawful racism in the form of segregation.
16:29Lawful racism in the form of segregation.
16:33In this country, many of us went to back doors, drank from colored water fountains, sat in the back of
16:42the bus, locked up in the bottom of the jail.
16:46Many of us suffered this form of invidious discrimination known as segregation, which is rooted in racism.
16:55We, the people, decided that we would no longer have this form of invidious discrimination exist lawfully, lawfully.
17:06So we ended it lawfully, but we didn't end it as it relates to the practice.
17:13In this case, invidious discrimination against people of color still exists to this day in this country.
17:20And people who would say that it doesn't exist and say that repeatedly, who are in high places, those comments
17:30are based in racism.
17:32If you are saying repeatedly that people of color are not discriminated against in this country, and you're saying it
17:41in public spaces.
17:45And again, you're saying it repeatedly. You, my friend, are a racist. You are.
17:52Nobody bothered to tell you before now, I know, you didn't get the word, but I'm here to tell you
17:57that people who do this to demean other people,
18:01to say that they are less than that is racist rhetoric and persons who do this regularly with intentionality.
18:12You are a racist. Continuing.
18:15As I indicated, IQ was used to justify heinous behavior like racial segregation and forced sterilization.
18:21That thinking, it reads here, was amplified in the late 1900s by a popular book titled The Bell Curve,
18:33which falsely claimed that IQ differences between racial groups were biological, biological.
18:43Phrenology. Another form of race science that claims skull shapes determined intelligence has also been completely discredited
18:55by the scientific community because of how often it was used to uphold scientific racism and gender stereotypes throughout the
19:07U.S. and Europe.
19:08Friends, people of color and women have suffered greatly in this country under the color of law,
19:20under the guise of science that was rooted in racism.
19:26We have to change this. This cannot continue in this country.
19:31And until we change this, we cannot truly say that all persons are created, treated equally.
19:41Although they are created equally, they are not treated equally.
19:45And we cannot say that liberty and justice for all exists when we address ourselves and the Pledge of Allegiance.
19:53It just doesn't happen. It's not the case.
19:56There is not liberty and justice for all in the United States of America.
20:01Ah, but let us continue.
20:07It reads, roughly 8 in 10 of Trump's low IQ attacks target black and brown people.
20:14This is what data shows roughly 8 in 10 target black and brown people.
20:23We're talking about empirical evidence now.
20:27Trump has been using his dog whistle frequently.
20:31Between January 20th of 2025 and April 25th of 2026,
20:36Trump posted low IQ or a variation of this phrase 24 times.
20:41Let me stop for just a moment and deal with the variation of the phrase.
20:45Because there are some people who don't say low IQ.
20:47They will say stupid.
20:50They will say, oh, black people are stupid.
20:52Or they'll say a particular black person is stupid.
20:57And in so doing, they will say, now, I really mean this in the sense of the way the word
21:02stupid is defined.
21:04So they use stupidity and they use this in the sense of referring to the person's intellect.
21:15Again, another means by which persons are using dog whistles to demean people of color.
21:26And this dog whistle that the president uses has permeated what I call racist radio.
21:36Racist radio.
21:38Yes, racist radio exists.
21:40Not all radio is racist.
21:42But there is a large segment, a subset of radio that is racist.
21:49And they are on the air daily utilizing terms such as stupidity, depicting people of color as less than human
22:01beings.
22:02And they've done it to the extent that they've normalized it within the circle that they reside in.
22:09They've normalized it.
22:10People just come to accept it.
22:12Well, I don't.
22:13I refuse to accept what racist radio does routinely.
22:19And the president, who is at the top of this chain of scrupulous, unscrupulous behavior,
22:29he's at the very top.
22:31The president shapes the tone and tenor for all of these things that happen beneath him.
22:35Much of what we are seeing today is being perpetrated and perpetuated because the president does it.
22:47So why can't others do it?
22:49People see it this way.
22:50So we have this racist radio that is constantly perpetrating and perpetuating racist dog whistles
22:57in the form of IQ, in the form of depicting persons as less than human who are persons of color,
23:03and in the form of using language other than low IQ such as stupid.
23:08Stupidity has become another dog whistle for racist radio.
23:13And they know that I speak truth, but they rarely have the truth spoken such that they are exposed.
23:22So those of you who are listening to it and enjoying it, you're enjoying racism.
23:29And as long as you continue to enjoy it and support it by the products being advertised on those stations,
23:36you're supporting racism. Racism exists in the public arena because, in many instances,
23:47people are buying the products that the racists purvey.
23:51The racists sell the products on their radio stations, they advertise the products,
23:57you buy them from those stations, and as a result, you are supporting racism.
24:01I refuse to do it. Racism is something that we have to combat.
24:06Sexism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, all of the various invidious phobias.
24:15So let me repeat this. It bears repeating.
24:18Roughly eight in ten of Trump's low IQ attacks target black or brown people data shows.
24:25Goes on to say,
24:27Trump has been using this dog whistle frequently between January 20, 2025, and April 25, 2026.
24:36Trump posted low IQ or a variation of the phrase 24 times, according to a study by Truth Out,
24:43a nonprofit news organization.
24:46Eight out of ten posts were directed at black or brown people.
24:52For example, in the first ten months of his second term, Trump did not refer to any white person as
25:02someone with low IQ.
25:05I'm going to repeat that.
25:09In the first ten months of his second term, Trump did not refer to any white person as someone with
25:20low IQ.
25:21These are the kinds of things people don't want to hear.
25:25But you have to know the truth so that you can free your minds.
25:29I've read someplace that if you know the truth, it will set you free.
25:31I want to free your minds.
25:33This will free you.
25:35Some of you.
25:36Some of you.
25:37Some of you choose not to be free.
25:39And there's nothing that will be said to free your minds because you choose not to be free.
25:45There is no one so blind as he who chooses not to see.
25:50Not as he who cannot see, but he who chooses not to see.
25:54And there are many people who choose not to see.
25:58No white person referred to with low IQ.
26:04And the article goes on to indicate, it is designed to signal a specific audience that a speaker shares the
26:16ideology or belief systems that they share.
26:22Shares their ideology or belief system.
26:25That's what these dog whistles are designed to do, to say to other people, hey, don't worry, I got your
26:31back.
26:32I believe that just as you believe that they have low IQs.
26:37So it's OK for you to say it on racist radio now.
26:40It's all right.
26:41You can you can call persons stupid.
26:44You can say low IQ.
26:46You can you can do it with impunity because the president is doing it.
26:51Well, it's not all right.
26:53And you're not going to do it with impunity because you're going to be exposed.
26:58This goes on to indicate that Trump uses it to refer to black people and predominantly, but not exclusively, black
27:11women.
27:13Predominantly, but not exclusively, black women.
27:18I stand in defense of black women.
27:22I stand in defense of the black women that he has called persons with low IQs.
27:27I defend Maxine Waters.
27:29I defend Vice President Kamala Harris.
27:33I defend Jasmine Crockett.
27:35I defend the women that this president would demean with a racist comment.
27:42And that's what it is.
27:44It is racist, racist commentary, constantly repeated over the airwaves.
27:51And it goes on to say, I think in his mind, this is a person speaking now of the president.
27:59I think in his mind, because it doesn't explicitly refer to race, he feels that it is easy to deny
28:07that it's a racist label.
28:10My friends, he can deny it.
28:14But there are some of us who see through it.
28:16I'm here to tell you that it is racist and it is a racist label.
28:22This article concludes with this language.
28:25By repeating the phrase openly, as is done on racist radio quite regularly.
28:31Remember, we're talking today about invidious discrimination emanating from the presidency.
28:40And I chose this topic emanating from the presidency because I wanted to talk about how it is permeating society.
28:46It starts there at the top with this president and it permeates society.
28:50Now, the argument can be made that it was here and it was before the president, this president, took office.
28:56But he has popularized it.
28:59He has normalized it.
29:01He has made it such that people in racist radio use it regularly and feel as though they are doing
29:08something noble by demeaning people of color and women.
29:14And others as well, members of the LGBTQIA plus community.
29:18So he says, I think that in his mind, because he doesn't explicitly refer to race, he feels that it's
29:26easy to deny and that it's a racist label.
29:30That it's a racist label.
29:31The final comment, by repeating the phrase openly, the practice further popularizes the concept.
29:42By repeating it, he popularizes the racist comment.
29:49As another person who spoke Harris once put it, Trump's language seems to have become less a dog whistle and
29:59more a bullhorn.
30:00Less a dog whistle, more a bullhorn.
30:05So, friends, here we are.
30:08We have a president of the United States of America who routinely uses racist commentary to refer to people of
30:21color.
30:21Routinely.
30:22Routinely.
30:23Does it without a thought as to how it impacts the lives of the people he refers to.
30:31The persons that he's calling low IQ.
30:36Doesn't really understand.
30:38Maybe he does understand and doesn't care.
30:40But he should consider how it impacts the lives of people.
30:45How it signals to other people that the persons are less than.
30:50And how it can cause some people to respond to them in a very adverse way.
30:59But we have to say to the president, and I do so today.
31:03Mr. President, if you are using this kind of commentary, as you do, and you continue to do it routinely,
31:13someone has to tell you what you're doing.
31:16And here's what you're doing, Mr. President.
31:19You are bringing the country itself, the country itself, to a level of concern for others such that we are
31:33not seen as we were once seen, as we were once seen as the country with the Statue of Liberty.
31:42The notion that there's liberty and justice for all in our Pledge of Allegiance.
31:46The notion that we truly respect all people and that all persons are created equal and endowed by their creator
31:52with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
31:56You are causing people across the globe to see us differently.
32:00You're causing people across the globe to understand that the United States is undergoing something that they never thought they'd
32:10see.
32:10And quite frankly, I'm amazed myself.
32:13So, Mr. President, there's only one thing that I can say to you.
32:17When you do this, you are not only using a racist dog whistle, you are a racist.
32:24That kind of terminology utilized the way you do it regularly makes you the racist who has now given other
32:35racists the license to say what they say openly and notoriously normalizing racism.
32:42As we approach the 250th anniversary, Mr. President, you should be ashamed.
32:49But there's no shame in you.
32:50You've already demonstrated this with your behavior over the many years that you've had a public voice.
32:58You've already demonstrated there's no shame in you.
33:01So, because you have no shame in you, Mr. President, I would call to your attention that while I am
33:11unbought, unbossed, unafraid, and unelected, censured but not silenced,
33:20Mr. President, there is still a countdown to impeachment.
33:26And, Mr. President, it is just a matter of time.
33:31Your day of reckoning will come.
33:34Someone is going to stand in the well of this House of Representatives and is going to introduce articles of
33:41impeachment against you,
33:42and these articles are going to pass in this House of Representatives.
33:46Before that person does it, however, I believe that there will be someone who will introduce articles to lay the
33:53foundation for the actual articles that will later on pass the House of Representatives.
33:59There's always someone who lays the foundation for things.
34:04The foundation was laid at the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
34:09The foundation was laid to eliminate invidious discrimination in busing, on bus lines, when Rosa Parks took a seat and
34:20ignited a spark that started a civil rights movement.
34:22So someone is going to lay the foundation.
34:24And, Mr. President, you should know you will be impeached again.
34:31You will be three times impeached.
34:33Mr. Speaker, with that said, I, Al Green, a proud, unbought, unbossed, unafraid, unelected, truly liberated Democrat,
34:50I yield back the balance of my time.
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