Donald Trump has divulged details of a cognitive test he "aced" -- including a five-word memory challenge he said proved he had the "mental stamina" to lead the U.S.
"Person. Woman. Man Camera. TV," the U.S. president recited [...]
In the article linked from that article.
The Canadian doctor behind the cognitive test Donald Trump recently took says the U.S. president's results are "normal performance," adding that the assessment is not an intelligence or an IQ test.
It's just weird how disconnected he is from reality sometimes.
The whole question I had around that was; what would make your physician choose to give you a cognition test? The answer is; a reasonable suspicion that you are showing signs of cognitive decline, i.e. dementia. So: he was bragging that "my doctor thought I might have dementia, but he gave me a test and I showed that my brain is broadly functional".
There's some implications he may have had a "series of mini strokes" which would have led to such a test. He claimed that he hadn't had a "series of mini strokes" when no one said he did (a journalist did theorise he had a stroke, but not as specific as a series of mini strokes). So yeah, pretty blatant that one.
I’m surprised he didn’t brag about the size of his strokes.
The biggest strokes you’ve ever seen. Doctors tell me all the time they’ve never seen such big strokes and - hillary. She can’t handle big strokes like that. That’s a shame, China sent us this virus.
There's evidence that even a mild case of covid can cause permanent mental decline. He wasn't doing too great before he got covid, but I'm sure getting covid up to the point he had to get supplemental oxygen didn't help.
You all forgetting who is currently president and the lengths to which his team goes to hide his failing cognition? Trump said some dumb shit but the things Biden says and does are genuinely scary.
Mixing up lybia and syria was maybe the most troubling, cuz he kept doing it. You cant make those kind of mistakes when leading the most powerful army in the world in history
Psaki and the whitehouse are constantly playing "what biden really said/meant was..." - notice too how youll almost never see clips of him talking, just transcripts (that are edited for clarity)
It’s a daily occurrence. Examples abound, too numerous to spend time listing them all. Google “bidens mental health” and read to your heart’s content. Some funny/scary videos as well.
Surely if there are so many examples you could provide a source for just one, right? Unless you're just talking out of your ass, but why would you ever do that?
What has Biden said that's "scary"? The fuck does that even mean? You don't have to list all the numerous examples, but just one would suffice. Should be easy for you if they're abound.
It's like that Eugene Mirman story where when he was a kid he remembers his parents getting a letter from the school saying "Eugene does not appear to have a learning disability." Which oddly enough is one of the most sure indicators that you do in fact appear to have a learning disability.
Ehh, they had a lady follow me around for a week in grade school because they thought I was slow. It was a whole thing. At the end of it they ended up putting me in middle-school reading and math classes, turned out I was just really bored with the work they gave us. My mom gave me the letter they got when I was older.
Thankfully many schools now actually test for this starting in kindergarten or first grade and move kids into advanced classes to keep them challenged. Bored, unchallenged kids get in trouble, so finding them as early as possible and keeping them engaged helps everybody win.
My wife is a nurse. I was giving her the cliff notes of the day and Trump's "IQ" test. She immediately recognized it was a basic 'round 1' dementia assessment. Passing it is the 'norm'. Failing it means you may be exhibiting signs of dementia and need to be checked further. It was at that moment I went from bemused to concerned that he was bragging about how well he performed on the test.
Right. My mom failed this test by missing one word during the doctor’s evaluation when I petitioned to become her guardian. I actually wasn’t sure the doctor would deem her to be incapacitated, because although she has a LOT of physical and speech limitations, she can still follow a conversation and remembers facts about her life. It was eye opening when the doctor asked her to say the months backwards from December to January … she slowly got to September, got confused, went from September to December, then said “did I do it?”
The five word memory test makes me think of my husband doing a craft with my daughter the other night where she periodically had to remember a pattern sequence of different fabric squares - floral, birds, polka dot, blue and purple. She remembered the sequence after 5-10 minutes each time. We were so impressed!
Sure man. Difficult to describe like it's less of a song and more like how the alphabet song is a song.
(say these months with a short break between them) January, February, March.... (quickly say the next ones with no break) April, May, June, July..... (say the next like you did the first three) August September, October, November, December. The twelve months of the year.
I have a very visual imagination, and for exercises like this, I picture a calendar in my mind, like the typical one that shows the months in a 3x4 fashion. Then I just read it.
Or when you gotta recite the letters backwards, I imagine all of them in sequence, in a row, and then I just "scroll back" while reciting them.
Gotta play to your mind's strengths! Find out what is it, and it'll be much easier.
I don’t doubt that he got a perfect score on it. What’s really telling though, is that he thought it was something to brag about. Meaning that he struggled and had to put some serious effort into it, and thought it would be similarly hard for everyone else
Im not sure that disconnected, the media was calling for him to be tested in this way to prove he wasnt mentally able to run the US. Him passing was a rebuke to that notion, like it or not
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u/russellzerotohero 16d ago
This is actually so funny it’s hard to believe it’s real. He’s like a sitcom character