Trump didn't "ace" his cognitive assessment

[SoonerPride]

He lies all the time and he is lying now.

His obsession with tell and retelling this lie shows how much his struggle with this dementia assessment bothered him. He told Wallace yesterday that “you couldn’t answer the last five questions” which of course meant that was what he couldn’t do.

His projections and accusations against others are always a tell.

He failed the dementia cognitive assessment.

[oswaldactedalone]

1. Very Likely

He's a disgrace.

[olegramps]

45. I was present when my wife was given this identical test.

She had dementia and was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease. Even though she was suffering from progressive dementia at first she was able to correctly answer the test with few errors. It is a standard test that was given to her at every appointment every twelve months by a board certified Neurologist M.D. This test is extremely easy for anyone with normal functioning mental capacity. It has both a visual and audio tests that even young children can easily pass. The most difficult part was to remember a short list of objects, colors at first was able to recall most of the times. As the disease progressed she had increasing difficulty especially the verbal part. That Trump would attempt to claim that the test was difficult is only evidence that his mental ability is not up to normal standards.

[RobinA]

69. He Said

it was difficult??? That test should NOT be difficult.

[AdamGG]

96. He also said that the doctors were all impressed with how well he did

That they said that people usually don't do as well as he did.

It's hard to separate out his usual ridiculous hyperbole from whether he's covering up for being unable to perform the test. Either way, he needs to be gone ASAP.

[3catwoman3]

103. Maybe they were impressed sssed that he was not...

...drooling and peeing his pants.

AFAIK, cognitive tests are not administered just for the fun of it.

[yardwork]

108. My mother's doctors always tell her that she's done well.

Even when she can't answer the questions, they smile and say she's doing just fine.

[Oppaloopa]

99. I know this is scary.

The difference with him and Regan who also had dementia while in office Is Regan had people who cared about him to help him. When you are a Narcissist Bully you don't have that.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. He probably didn't lie.

He just forgot that he failed the dementia test.

[lagomorph777]

42. That's so meta.

[quakerboy]

113. Honestly thats usually the case

The Dr gives the test in the most friendly way possible, trying to keep it from being adversarial so that they can get an accurate result, and gives a result, again usually trying to keep it non adversarial (and few people take being told their brains are declining any way other than negatively). At the point such tests are needed, its often a matter of letting responsible parties know how far things have gotten.

That non adversarial approach Is an attempt not to upset the person being tested, and emotions stick better than facts, especially when someone has cognitive decline, so actual scores or bland statements about results usually vanish, and in short order the person tested will take the lack of negative emotion surrounding the test to mean they passed and everyone is wrong about their cognitive decline.

[Kitchari]

3. Pure projection

Always. You are correct.

[SoonerPride]

4. It's the same thing he will say when he loses in November

I didn’t lose. I won.

I didn’t fail the cognitive test. I aced it.

It is upside down bizarro world.

Black is white.

Up is down.

Trump is smart.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

16. Or, in a famous piece of doublethink

War is peace, freedom is slavery, and (especially where Trump and his followers are concerned) ignorance is strength.

[jayschool2013]

31. And screw EastAsia!

'Cuz we've always been at war with EastAsia.

[Cyrano]

40. We're at war with EurAsia. Didn't you get the memo?

[Permanut]

77. Winston Smith is working on an accurate, revised and updated report.

[Oppaloopa]

100. He said DR's never saw results like that. I thought WHY????????

[Kitchari]

107. A knee-jerk self-aggrandizing lie

Once again, so automatic

[Scarsdale]

5. When he sits for an interview,

he always looks as though he is sitting on his golden toilet.

[Sherman A1]

6. If his lips are moving

he is lying. This is no different than anything else in his past.

[gordianot]

7. The fact they felt the need to give it to him in the first place.

It then follows; When, Where, Who, and Why? Of course Wallace couldn’t pull off the gotcha questions it is dangerous to rouse a Psychopath.

[KG]

8. hell, i don't even believe he took such a test.

[BamaRefugee]

85. and KG hits the nail on the head! He never took any test. Another lie.

[Mr.Bill]

94. Here's what I think happened.

That day they threw him into an SUV ad rushed him to Walter Reed was because he had had a stroke that left him fairly incoherent, which would not be unusual. In a few hours and with some medication and monitoring he mostly recovered, which is also not unusual. I doubt this was the first time this happened, and it won't be the last.

[panader0]

9. I wish I could see the test.

I want to see if I am as smart as trump. Anyone have a link to the test?

[SoonerPride]

13. Here it is

https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2020/jul/19/trump-says-he-aced-this-cognitive-test-can-you/

[TomVilmer]

17. I did recognize all three zoo animals...

So proud I too could be president!

[Ilsa]

28. Just like Sarah Palin showed us! LOL.

I wouldn't want to be president of a country that elected me president!

[moonscape]

97. I failed. I

thought one of them was 45.

[panader0]

24. Similar to the oral test given to my dad to ascertain his dementia.

He was asked who the current president was and didn't know. (It was Bush at the time)
He was told three words and to remember them. A minute later, when asked to repeat them, he said
"What three words?" I took him to the doctor because he refused to quit driving. After the exam, the
doctor told him to give up the keys. He cussed "that stupid doctor!" as I drove him home.

[Ilsa]

33. My MIL couldn't pull his name

out of her brain for five minutes, but I know she could visualize him.

She is struggling finding words. The other day she came upstairs from her basement apartment asking frantically for her son, yelling "he needs to come see this! It's horrible!" I asked her "what? Something on the news?" She said, "No, no. It's awful. He needs to see this." My husband (her son) wasn't here, so I ran downstairs to discover the basement was flooding. The sump pump had stopped working (the electrical plug wasn't in far enough to complete the circuit). She was unable to tell me what the problem was ("The basement is flooding&quot .

[panader0]

35. I have many horror stories of my father's slide into dementia.

My brother, who at 72 is three years older than I am, is in in a home for early onset dementia.
Very sad to see. I will check out on my own before I let that take me. I'm hoping I take after
my mom's side of the family that stayed sharp until the end.

[Oppaloopa]

101. I wonder if anyone takes the supplement Prevagen

My Mother had it in her late 80's her grandmother had it

[Pacifist Patriot]

26. Damn, that's tougher than I thought!

[central scrutinizer]

76. Words beginning with f

Fuck, fuckstick, fuckhead, fucker, fuckface, fuckwad

[Wednesdays]

82. Fisting, fapping, foul, farting, flatulence,

Filthy, fornication.

You know. All words tRump's familiar with.

[BamaRefugee]

86. Financialcrime.

[MontanaMama]

102. Fuckwit.

My personal favorite.

[Ilsa]

81. Dumbass Trump referred to "35 questions."

Did he really just mean 30 points? Is there another cognitive exam with "35 questions"?

[usaf-vet]

18. Poke around on line there're folks that have posted the 2 or three common tests uses

You'll find it. Most people say he would have failed with the count backward by sevens. That took me a minute until I figured the repetitive pattern.

[smb]

23. Counting Backwards Should Be Easy For Him...

...all he has to do is repeat his last batch of public approval ratings.

[oldsoftie]

56. Folks, here we have today's winner of the internet.

[Rebl2]

58. I am

horrible at counting backwards. When I was in my early 20’s a fellow student was doing a psychology experiment on memory retention and other tests like counting backwards like they do on dementia tests. The counting backwards test I failed miserably. Subtracting has always been a problem for me. Retaining words I am better at.

[robbob]

111. What about reciting the alphabet backwards?

I can’t do it! Not without mentally reciting a forward snippet to get me started. “W-X-Y-Z...ok, so Z...Y...um (wxyz), um X, W (T-U-V) umm...V?...”

And so on. Kind of freaks me out that something so easy for myself and every child over the age of 4 to recite going forward becomes a tangled mess to reverse. I mean, I can COUNT backwards...

[Rebl2]

117. I would

be even worse at that!

[RobinA]

70. I Always Wonder

why they have serial 7s in these tests. To me it's math, not cognition. I could foresee myself not being able to do them under a lot of situations that wouldn't really be cognitive.

[deurbano]

95. In high school, I was a TA for a remedial math class, and I hated having to teach the students

how to make change since I wasn't good at "performing" with people watching me. After realizing how much I sucked at this low level skill when having to perform it with an audience, I tried to avoid any jobs that involved making change!

[NurseJackie]

10. When he says "a lot of people don't know this..." what he really means "I just learned this"...

When he says "a lot of people don't know this..." what he really means "I just learned this"... or "here's a fact I didn't know and I'll be surprised if you know it too".

[ronatchig]

11. My thoughts exactly

I guess great minds think birds of a feather---wait

[Aviation Pro]

12. How come he found naming at least 11 'F' words hard?

I barely got past three letter words using ‘f(vowel)’ as a prefix.

Fab, fad, fan, far, fat, fax, fed, fez, fib, fig, fin, fit, fix, you get the point.

[PCIntern]

14. Believe it or not people freeze

I have heard the story many times. High functioning people when asked to name words beginning with a given letter stop dead In their tracks. There is a measure of testing anxiety with these tests, I’m not saying that that is what the problem was with you know who, but many people don’t handle the test well.

[Ilsa]

21. Yeah, I was slowly bringing up words like "fenestration,"

and "farthingales**," while fax, fib, fix, etc eluded me until I chilled.

**I enjoy reading novels that may have detail on fashion.

[PCIntern]

22. I had the exact same issue:

All these esoteric words I was fumbling for. I felt like such an asshole

[Ilsa]

27. Yep. "Geez, who am I trying to impress?" LOL. nt

[notKeith]

29. F words are pretty easy

fuck fucks fucker fuckers fucked fucking fucktard fuckwit fuckhead fuckwad fuckmate

...he replied, fuckishly.

[rusty fender]

72. You forgot

Fuckface, for Trumpass

[unc70]

34. Fuscous

[lagomorph777]

46. A lot of my f-words were four letters, because I was thinking of Trump.

fuck fart fool fist flip flop fate fail faux fade fans fink flap

[unblock]

48. My brain is really context-sensitive.

I sometimes have a really hard time doing mental tasks in the "wrong" place.

My mental database of people, for instance, is very location dependent. At work I know literally everyone in the company (about 50 people). But if I run into one of them in the grocery store, often I can't come up with their name.

I'm quite good at taking written tests. But asked the same question out loud by an actual human, I often completely blank. Many times, I know the answer even before the question is done, but by the time they finish and the spotlight is on me to answer, I've completely lost it.

At work, often I can't figure something out in a meeting until I get back to my office and look at my laptop. Then it instantly hits me.


So this test looks really easy on paper, but I think if I had an emergency and was in a hospital and people gave me that test, it would be a different story.


That said, I'd know better than to brag about not having dain bramage!

[intrepidity]

49. Me too

I've never heard it described so accurately, but that is me too. Surely it means something, in terms of an organic cause?

[unblock]

55. Don't know. Oh, also, I've met famous people in real life and didn't recognize them

Mrs. Unblock signed me up once for the annual New York times crossword puzzle tournament that will shortz, the editor, hosts each year.

I sat directly across from an older gent with shockingly white hair, chatting and doing crosswords for 3 hours. During breaks people would come up to him and thank him for all he's done and ask his autograph. So I knew he was famous but I couldn't place him. I assumed he was some local celebrity, a former mayor maybe.

When it was nearly over mrs. Unblock finally has a chance to pull me aside. She was so impressed at how totally cool I was chatting with phil Donahue, who I had only seen on tv about a million times.

As soon as she said it, it became instantly obvious. And it's not like he looked any different in real life. Same very distinctive features. But it didn't click until she told me.

[intrepidity]

59. Is that face blindness?

I have always been mystified how police sketches of suspects come to be. I'd like to see one of those artists try to interview me, lol. A complete mystery.

"Did their nose look like this, or this?"

"...Yes?..."

[unblock]

64. Clearly some people are wired differently.

Watching tv, mrs. Unblock can instantly spot a familiar actor the instant even half of their face is visible on screen. She'll pause the show right there and ask me if I recognize them and of course I'm saying I haven't even seen their face yet, not that that's much help.

Usually I recognize them as familiar but can't place them. Finally she'll say it was the detective's boss from that police drama we saw five years ago. Or it was the guy who was in that *one* episode of sex and the city.

I'll check on imdb and of course she's always right.

*she* could give a great description of anyone for a sketch artist, I'm sure. Me, not so much.


We're still trying to figure out how to make a million off of this talent my wife has....

[Wednesdays]

83. Betting that she's more right-brain dominant

Is she a lefty?

[unblock]

87. Actually I'm the lefty, she's a righty.

[PCIntern]

52. To sum up my analysis of your post:

Me too!!!!

[RobinA]

71. Interesting

I have the same problem with physical things. I was in a dance recital once and we learned that dance in one dance studio. I could do it in my sleep. When we went to do a run through prior to dress rehearsal we were in the big studio. The music started and I had no expectation of having a problem, but I could not do it AT ALL. And it wasn't a hard dance. The only thing I could figure was that I was unconsciously using sight cues based on the original studio to know what to do next. Without my sight cues I was an idiot.

I also don't learn things well when there is no context for the new information. Good bye being multilingual. Despite having an excellent memory, I can't learn another language to save my life.

[unblock]

73. Navigating by car can be the same thing.

I can take a route 100 times, then someone paints their house or chops down a tree and I miss my turn.

Fortunately there's gps these days!

[Ilsa]

80. Me too. I ran into my

gynecologist walking in the mall. I didn't recognize him because I usually see his face several inches over a blue paper sheet that's draped over my hips and apart knees.

I have trouble recognizing "types". On a Monday, a young man with dirty blond hair, thin whiskers, and carrying an extra 40 pounds on a 5'9" frame came by the house for a maintenance issue. Three days later, another guy meeting that description came by to sell a roofing job to us. I thought he was the same guy as Monday. I can't tell their faces apart. I can't remember them until I've spent a lot of time getting to know them.

But I can tell a rhino from a camel.

[moonscape]

98. My memory has always been bad. As a

kid I was terrible at the memory card game Concentration. It’s maybe why I loved math so much; it involved figuring things out vs memory.

The part I would likely fail is the 5 word thing, remembering after 5 min. My mom had alzheimer’s so I know a lot about dementia. I don’t have it yet, but my memory is horrid. I can remember experiences easily, conversations, etc ... but random data? Nope.

[jcgoldie]

63. "high functioning people..."

WTF that have to do with Trump?

[PCIntern]

68. Point well-taken!!!

[USALiberal]

41. LOL, ok! nt

[Chiyo-chichi]

50. He should at least know these from people talking about HIM...

fat
fraud
fake
false
flimflam
failure
fascist
feckless
feebleminded
felon
fiasco
FOOL!

[PCIntern]

15. Guaranteed he couldn't recall the words later.

Guaranteed.

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. That's what I figured. They're asked immediately, and then asked again

at the end. I first thought, when I glanced at the test, that the last five were the ones about the date and do you know where you are. Then I broke down and read the instructions.

And now I'm afraid I've got a brainworm that's going to be whispering "face, velvet, church, daisy, red" in my ear all day.

[IowaGuy]

53. Here this ought to help.....

[link:

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[drray23]

109. So a classic technique i was taught is to make up a silly story.

linking the worlds together. This way your brain will associate the images of your silly story with the words. You will be able to repeat them forward and backward. I can do two dozens easily.

For example :

The man with a velvet mask stood in front of the Church holding a daisy in his blood red hand.

[lagomorph777]

47. He can't recall the beginning of a sentence by the time he's halfway through it.

[mercuryblues]

20. What 5 questions did he consider hard?

How could he have scored the best ever on this this test? There is a finite score that cannot be exceeded. It's reasonable to say that millions of people have achieved a perfect score on it.

Why would DR's be surprised that the President of the United States passed this test? A test that any 10 year old could pass.


And that is why I know he is lying. Along with his constant bragging about how well he did and how no one else could answer the questions as well as he did.

It doesn't just bother him. Repeating the story over and over is also a sign of dementia.

[Brother Buzz]

75. What the nimrod doesn't understand is there isn't a wrong answer for some of those tough questions

Think about it.

[LiberalArkie]

25. At 72, I start messing up at the memory part. My memory is real good in real life, but the test

shows my doctor where I am and am I getting worse. Yes I am.. But she said I am pretty normal for my age.

BTW. Biden would have a problem starting at the memory part.. It is age related.

I would love to see Trump take an ethics test.

[study war no more]

30. he says he scored a 35..... out of 30???

That's just like him to think he's the best of everything. I administer this test all the time in clinic and most people do NOT score a perfect score (30). Even young people with full cognitive function somtimes miss something - like remembering the five words after I've tripped them up with lots of other questions. I know the answers and I still wouldn't score a perfect score.

[Gothmog]

32. Of course trump failed this test

[Grammy23]

36. The count backward by 7s stumps me. I have to almost visualize it in my head to

do it accurately. But that is nothing new for me. Math has always been my weakest subject — even the fairly simple stuff. It bugs me that math never became simple for me but that is just how it is for some of us. I can do the count backward bit but it just takes me slightly longer and my anxiety is through the roof!

What I have to remind myself is that the test is looking for new deficiencies. Identifying Cognitive decline is the point of the test. You might be a PhD level mathematician and at some point start losing the ability to do the simple tasks. It is an indicator of processing issues in the brain.

tRump’s crowing about his test results (which is likely a lie) is just more of the pathology he has had all along. His go to strategy is always to lie about anything and everything if he thinks it makes him look better. No one is saying that tRump is completely demented. He is showing signs that he headed that way. So he can brag all he wants. The truth will be known and there is not much he can do about it — except Continue to lie his ass off.

[karynnj]

65. My husband and I were speaking of the counting backward one

Both of us have advanced degrees in math, but he has always been incredible doing mental math. He has for years been surprised that over time fewer young people can easily make change. He explained many tricks for easily doing computations in your head to our three daughters. I never had the same innate ability that he had to do computations in my head.

His immediate answer was to rattle off the numbers, far faster than I could. I think if I were given the test, I would place needless pressure on myself to answer quickly possibly leading to dimple arithmetic errors. He As explained that he could do it quickly by subtracting10 and then adding three. I tried and it is easier, but I still was way slower than him.

[tclambert]

92. "dimple arithmetic errors" are the cutest kind.

[karynnj]

105. Ha ha. This shows I also make simple spelling errors! :-)

[USALiberal]

37. Do you have a link to the failed test story? nt

[1plus1equals1]

38. I've had several brain injuries and I aced it

Yep, I've had five brain injuries in my life and my doctor wanted to do the test due to some issues I was having with short-term memory. So, after ten hours of cognitive testing I didn't break anything and I can identify pictures of common animals. Wow, I not only aced it I'm a calm genius; see, there's hope for all of us and I'm now proof of that.

[Laelth]

39. Most likely.

The sequence of five words that one must remember is rather difficult. I doubt that Trump could do it.

-Laelth

[Demsrule86]

43. Quite likely. But if he couldn't answer such simple questions...it is terrifying.

He has the nuclear codes. The Republicans have truly let the country down by allowing this demented mad man to remain president.

[SoonerPride]

44. And watch in 6 months they will try to say they never supported him

They will pivot and try to pretend trump and trumpism never happened.

[wnylib]

61. Guaranteed that's what they will do.

So remember their names and have copies of their quotes, either on video or in manuscript form to remind them and others of their part in making America fascist.

[SoonerPride]

84. I will never forgive any republican ever

I won't need to keep a list or remember.

They are all complicit.

They can never be rehabilitated and welcomed back into polite society ever again.

EVER

[wnylib]

93. The list and the quotes are not reminders

for you. They are proof to throw in the face of the deniers when they try to con others into believing that they were never part of the Trump fascism machine.

[yuiyoshida]

51. I am betting his medical team lied to him about the test ...

to placate him of course.

[whopis01]

54. They need to ask him the question "How do you spell ace?"

I'm betting that he saw the doctor's note and thought it said "This guy is a total ace".

[Happy Hoosier]

57. I just wanna know...

... who the fuck brags about "acing" a cognitive function test anyway? That's like bragging that you leg isn't broken.

[SoonerPride]

60. Someone who failed the test.

And is demented.

[Happy Hoosier]

62. BOOM. NT

[uponit7771]

78. +1

[Kingofalldems]

66. ......

Link to tweet

[SoonerPride]

67. hahahahahhahahah

[Blue Owl]

74. He got a big "F"

as in Fat Fuck Failure

[SoonerPride]

79. Hahahahaha

But he heard fantastic fabulous!

[LakeArenal]

88. The last to hard questions are:

What is the date

And

Where are you.

Tough tough questions. Believe me.

[Mr.Bill]

89. When I entered high school at 14

my IQ was tested and it was 143, which made me not have much faith in IQ tests.

I'm going to be 67 nine days from now and I figure I have drank and drugged away about 25 of those points, and I'm still smarter than anyone in the Trump family.

And remember Trump claims to have never drank or used drugs. I dropped LSD over 100 times in the early 70s.

[Hekate]

90. Kick

[Sneederbunk]

91. But I thought he pulled an all-nighter before the test.

[warmfeet]

104. I don't think he even knows what the test is for.

The fact that he was even asked to take this test means that at least one doctor, a very important doctor, thinks he may be cognitively impaired. Which, of course, he is (just my opinion).

Is he lying about his test results? Chances are very good that he is lying. His lies are well documented.

[lame54]

106. It was actually a club

[gldstwmn]

110. He is establishing a defense

against prosecution.

[Joinfortmill]

112. Is it November yet?

[SoonerPride]

116. It can't come soon enough.

[Josiesdad]

114. If he brings this up again with any journalist, their next question should be...

They should ask him...

"That is very nice Mr President. Will you release the Doctors that gave you this test from their NDAs and give them permission to talk to us about the test and your session with them?"

[SoonerPride]

115. "What a nasty question. You are a terrible person!"