‘Should my son not run for president?’ GOP senator lashes out over Trump’s learning disabilities crack

Republican senators who are parents of children with dyslexia pushed back on President Donald Trump’s comments President Donald Trump said people with learning disabilities should not ever be commander in chief.

Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski was stunned Wednesday to learn from a reporter about his words.

“Should my son not run for president?” the moderate, who voted to convict Trump after Jan. 6 and has from time to time criticized him, responded to The Independent. Murkowski said her son has dyslexia.

“He’s one of the smartest guys I know,” she said of her son. “I guess again, sometimes you’ve got to look at it in the context in which he said it, but I do not believe that those with a level of disability should automatically be excluded from being president.”

On Monday, Trump spoke in the Oval Office where he commented on California Gov. Gavin Newsom having dyslexia and said that people who have learning disabilities should not run for office.

“Honestly, I’m all for people with learning disabilities, but not for my president,” Trump told reporters. “I think a president should not have learning disabilities.”

During his remarks, Trump referred to Newsom by his oft-used derisive moniker for him: “Newscum.”

“I know it’s highly controversial to say such a horrible thing,” Trump said, adding that “everything about him is dumb.”

Newsom has been open about the fact that he has dyslexia. After Trump’s remarks, the governor pushed back.

“To every kid with a learning disability: don’t let anyone — not even the President of the United States — bully you,” he said. “Dyslexia isn’t a weakness. It’s your strength.”

But Murkowski wasn’t alone in Republican criticism. Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, pushed back on Trump’s comments.

“Well, probably somebody with dyslexia and learning disability has been president,” Cassidy, a doctor, told The Independent. Cassidy has a daughter with dyslexia.

He also added that dyslexia affects about 20 percent of the population.

“Certainly there are people who are CEOs and famous physicians and reportedly even Albert Einstein,” he said. “So I think that the idea that someone with dyslexia cannot achieve any goal that he or she wishes to achieve is wrong. They absolutely can.”

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