Sunday, April 24, 2022

In January 2018, Trump Was Tested For Possible Early Dementia;
Four Years Later, He's STILL Bragging In Public About "Acing" The Test


In July 2020, Donald Trump bragged about "acing" the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (a 10-minute test designed to detect the early onset of dementia) to Fox's Chris Wallace in a televised interview.

Wallace responded: "Well, it's not the hardest test. They have a picture and it says, 'What's that?' And it's an elephant." Trump got annoyed. "Yes, the first few questions are easy, but I'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions. . . . They get very hard, the last five questions."

For the record, the final five questions require identifying the current month, year, and day, where the person is at the moment, and what city he or she is currently in. These are the "very hard" questions Trump was referring to.

Although the fact that Trump took the test became infamous in 2020 (when he boasted to the world about his recall of five words ("person, woman, man, camera, TV"), the Washington Post reported that Trump was first given the test on January 12, 2018.

Trump has brought up this test repeatedly and I'm always dumbfounded each time he does. He has brought it up twice in the last week, more than four years after he identified a picture of a camel and tapped his hand every time the administrator, while reading a list of letters, said the letter A. This is the test.

Trump appears to believe his passing grade is proof of his superior intelligence (he says his doctors told him the test is difficult and very few people pass), but Ziad Nasreddine, the neurologist who created the test, says:
It's not meant to measure IQ or intellectual skill in anyway. If someone performs well, what it means is they can be ruled out for cognitive impairment that comes with diseases like Alzheimer's, stroke or multiple sclerosis. That's it. The reason most people take the test is they or others start noticing mental decline. They forgot where they parked the car, can't remember what groceries to buy by the time they get to the store. They keep forgetting to take their medication.
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