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In reply to the discussion: Attention Media: The question isn't "How tough is the cognitive test Trump took?" [View all]Ms. Toad
(38,715 posts)Prior to now, although he was consistently describing everything exactly as described in 1/2018, he had not named Jackson as the person he asked about taking some sort of test to prove his competence. Today he apparently did a new interview, described the conversation I've mentioned previously (again) and named Jackson as the doctor involved.
He really doesn't have a close connection to reality. Although his memory works similarly to my spouses (with a diagnosed cognitive impairment) - which may be why I recognized immediately what was going on. He experiences an event, creates a fake memory (the test has 35 questions, he remembered the word list for 20 minutes or more, and then reliably repeats the false narrative - varying only in ways that make it a better story - because it is the story telling (not the reality) that is important. The memory is connected to events (a physical at Walter Reed) - but not to time, specifically.