Former President Donald Trump showed up for an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity and took the opportunity to brag about “acing” a simple cognitive exam he was given by his former doctor, who is a now-Republican Congressman.
“We aced it,” said Trump as the crowd cheered. “I think we can say I aced it.”
“He didn’t get one question wrong did he?” Hannity asked someone. “Yeah, 30 out of 30.”
The test that Donald Trump took wasn’t an actual cognitive exam so much as a benchmark given to people who are in the early stages of dementia to track their regression. An actual cognitive exam is much longer and typically given by an expert, not a Republican doctor.
Trump infamously described to Fox News last year that the test was “difficult. It was the slate of questions where he was required to remember simple words like, “Person, woman, man, camera, TV.”
“It was 30 or 35 questions. The first questions are very easy. The last questions are much more difficult. Like a memory question,” Trump told Fox News in 2020. “It’s like, you’ll go, ‘Person, woman, man, camera, TV.’ So they say, ‘Could you repeat that?’ So I said, ‘Yeah.’ So it’s, ‘Person, woman, man, camera, TV.’ OK, that’s very good. If you get it in order, you get extra points.”
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
Here’s Chris Wallace clowning Trump over the test:
"I took the [cognitive] test too, when I heard you passed it. It's not the hardest test. It shows a picture and it says, 'what's that,' and it's an elephant." — Chris Wallace pushes back on Trump hyping the cognitive test he passed at Walter Reed pic.twitter.com/8Df8Ez10Ma
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 19, 2020
