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brooklynite

(94,493 posts)
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 07:36 AM Jul 2020

BREAKING: Trump"aced" his cognitive test.....in 2018.

AP News

Trump has been known to declare that he is “a very stable genius” and that “I have the best words” while noting that he attended the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. And about a month ago, he began telling aides that a cognitive test he took as part of his physical in 2018 could be something he could weaponize against Biden.

The president has been known to recite five words to aides in the West Wing or on Air Force One — he’d tweak the list to make it appropriate for the setting — while claiming that Biden could not do the same.

But some of Trump’s descriptions about the test and what it means don’t quite fit with what experts describe about the most common of cognitive tests given to older people. There is no bonus, and it’s meant to be easy, said Dr. James Galvin, a University of Miami professor of neurology who runs a dementia center.

Galvin said what Trump described sounds an awful lot like the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, often called MoCa. It takes about 10 minutes, and the top score is 30, said Galvin, who has administrated thousands of the tests.


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BREAKING: Trump"aced" his cognitive test.....in 2018. (Original Post) brooklynite Jul 2020 OP
But the question would be...? kentuck Jul 2020 #1
What Doctor needs to be "bought off"? brooklynite Jul 2020 #2

kentuck

(111,078 posts)
1. But the question would be...?
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 07:41 AM
Jul 2020

How do you find a group of doctors, perhaps a group of three, that cannot be bought off by him? His family should request that he see a doctor just to prove he is competent enough to lead this country? (Of course, it doesn't take a lot of competence - look at Mitch McConnell)

brooklynite

(94,493 posts)
2. What Doctor needs to be "bought off"?
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 07:51 AM
Jul 2020

He's brought no Doctors forward to claim he aced his test; doesn't matter what score he achieved, he'd claim he aced it.

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