When former President Donald Trump attended a roundtable event Wednesday with Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott, he bragged about passing a cognitive test he took in 2018 and claimed that President Joe Biden would flunk it. “[Dr. Ronny Jackson] did a test. Did I ace it? I aced it. And I’d like to see Biden ace it. He won’t ace it,” Trump insisted, according to the New York Post.
The twice-impeached one-term president did it again with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, with the host referring to President Biden as “President Sippy Cup.” Hannity has been trying to make that moniker stick with the president, and it’s idiotic and juvenile since it’s Trump who has issues sipping water from a glass with one hand.
“We aced it,” Trump said. “I think we can say I aced it.”
“He didn’t get one question wrong, did he?” Hannity asked. “Yeah, 30 out of 30,” with some people in the crowd applauding for some unexplainable reason.
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Trump is still bragging about acing his cognitive test last year. Also take note of the world historical projection from Hannity. pic.twitter.com/s5CTA2ARJ6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2021
Trump claimed that the questions got more difficult as the test went on, but you can see a copy of it here. After the former president first took the test, he claimed that the doctors were amazed, telling him, “Rarely does anybody do what you just did.”
Well, that’s not true.
The creator of the MoCA — the Montreal Cognitive Assessment that Trump took during his doctor’s visit, explained that the test is supposed to be easy for an individual who’s not actually suffering from cognitive decline — and yet, Trump said that it was a difficult test. As we reported, Dr. Ziad Nasreddine, who developed the test in 1996, suggested that the MoCA test is only used to see if someone has a serious problem.
“The purpose is to detect impairment; it’s not meant to determine if someone has extremely high levels of abilities,” Dr. Nasreddine said at the time.
As for Dr. Ronny Jackson, he raised eyebrows in 2018 after he gushed over Donald Trump’s health during a briefing before the White House press corps, touting the now-former president’s “good genes” and how he did “exceedingly well” on his cognitive test and remarked on his “excellent” cardiac health. “I told the President that if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he might live to be 200 years old,” Jackson bizarrely told reporters.
As we reported, the Department of Defense inspector general issued a scathing review of Jackson during his time serving as the top White House physician, “concluding that he made “sexual and denigrating” comments about a female subordinate, violated the policy for drinking alcohol while on a presidential trip and took prescription-strength sleeping medication that prompted concerns from his colleagues about his ability to provide proper care.” Hence, he’s probably not the best judge of character.
But, Trump wants a cookie for remembering the words: Person, woman, man, camera, TV. I can’t roll my eyes any harder. And there are no signs that President Biden has dementia.
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