Captain Cankles boasts that he's very good physically & mentally in advance of his SECOND "annual checkup"

[Miles Archer]

Trump, 79, Explodes Over Brain Speculation With Surprise Medical Check
FIGHTING FIT
The president also boasted about his “perfect” cognitive test scores.
Farrah Tomazin Political Correspondent

Updated Oct. 9 2025 5:26PM EDT
Published Oct. 9 2025 5:11PM EDT

...asked about his visit on Thursday, Trump played down the checkup, telling reporters: “I’m meeting with the troops and I’m going to do a sort of semi-annual physical. I think I’m in great shape, but I’ll let you know.

“Physically, I feel very good. Mentally, I feel very good,” he added. “I like to check, always early. Always be early, it’s a lesson for a lot of people.”

Trump also talked up the cognitive exams he has taken, saying he achieved a perfect score.

“I had a perfect score, and one of the doctors said he’s almost never seen a perfect score,” Trump bragged on Thursday.

“I got the highest score, and that made me feel good. When they asked would I like to do one? I said: Yeah—did Obama do it? No. Did Bush do it? No. Did Biden do it? Biden wouldn’t have gotten through the first three questions, but Biden should have done it.

[vapor2]

1. BS and anything but transparent

[Ocelot II]

2. OK, God, you know what to do.

[usonian]

3. Yeah, TOUGH TEST

Took him two hours to complete it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. He is of two minds about it: 1) His primary skill, 2) He knows he's not well

1) He knows the public is "concerned". He wants to continue to prop up the manly man strongman image, because it does incrementally help him in his base and wobbly purple areas.

2) It is yet another slip-up where he acknowledges his impending mortality. Why does he focus on this? Rather than, say, his golf game (aside from issues of sloppy scorekeeping contrasted with the awesome responsibility of the Oval Office).

He is worried he's losing his grip. He is worried about his legacy. He knows he's losing his edge. He knows he's sundowning, on a downward slope that he can't be rescued from.