Rep. Meeks on Trump presser: Maybe ‘he’s not all there anymore’

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) PAC, on Friday suggested former President Trump may be “not all there anymore” after he held a lengthy and rambling press conference.

Meeks joined CNN’s Sara Sidner to discuss Trump’s Thursday press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, which was viewed as an attempt to take back the spotlight from his new opponent, Vice President Harris.

“This guy, he was incoherent, nonsensical,” Meeks said Friday. “He was an individual who sounded like he had a low IQ.”

The New York Democrat said he is “getting really nervous” listening to Trump speak because “he can’t seem to finish a sentence” and said he thinks something is “wrong with him.”

“I don’t know, maybe it’s he is incomprehensible. Maybe he is losing a lot because, you know, he is the oldest person to run for president of the United States,” he said.

Meeks’s criticism reverses a talking point Trump and Republicans had used for months against President Biden before he dropped out of the presidential race. Trump and his allies had sought to question Biden’s mental acuity and paint him as too old for the job.

Now that Biden bowed out of the race and handed the reins to Harris, the question about age has been pointed at Trump, who is 78.

“He’s not all there anymore,” Meeks said of Trump.

Meeks and the CBC backed Harris’s campaign and praised Biden’s career last month. In a statement, the CBC PAC said the vice president will do an “excellent job” leading the country and said the country owes Biden a “great deal of gratitude.”

The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.