Is he all there? Is he all there?
Trump is so excited about “acing” that cognitive test.
In a live phone interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump bragged about his test score on a cognitive exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after Hannity invoked presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, asking the president whether he believed Biden had the “mental alertness” to be president.
Trump said he didn’t think the Democrat could pass the cognitive exam
like[as] he did.“I actually took one very recently when, you know, the radical left was saying, ‘Is he all there? Is he all there?’ I proved I was all there, because I aced it,” Trump told Hannity. “I aced the test. … He should take the same exact test, a very standard test. I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors and they were very surprised. They said, ‘That’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anyone do what you just did.’”
Does that sound like something a clutch of doctors would say? To anyone, let alone to Prez Mushbrain.
It’s not clear what cognitive test Trump was talking about.
The most recent publicly disclosed cognitive test Trump took at Walter Reed was in January 2018, when the White House’s top physician said he got a perfect score. The exam Trump took then was the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which is designed to detect mild cognitive issues, largely in older people. The 10-minute exam asks patients to identify animals in pictures, draw a clock, and perform basic word-recall exercises.
Doctors were reeling around the room in amazement that Trump recognizes a dog in a picture and can sketch a clock.
His comments about the cognitive test are part of a pattern of attacks on Biden’s mental acuity while aggressively defending his own. As The Washington Post reported last month, Trump’s preoccupation with projecting an image of intelligence and physical strength has intensified in recent months after critics mocked him for episodes such as shuffling cautiously down a ramp and slowly drinking a cup of water with both hands.
Along with his staggering, horrifying, gobsmacking stupidity. Don’t forget that part.
Someone questioned his omniscience, so now he’s a genius again. I wonder who he paid to take this test for him, I’m sure that’s what the doctor’s meant by “rarely anyone does that”, if that’s what they even said. He’s full of it.
He apparently was able to infer agency by watching two triangles and a circle move around a screen.
I didn’t want Biden to win the nomination. But I have to admit that Trump is just utterly baffled at how to campaign against him. Between this and “he’s secretly the tool of socialists,” they’re whiffing badly.
I don’t blame him for being excited, I don’t think he was sure either.
Apparently a common question on these cognitive tests is “who is the president of the United States”? So no wonder Trump loves these tests — they’re about him! He gets to say his name!
Plus he knows the answer!