President Donald Trump is boasting about his cognitive test results again claiming he aced the test.
During a conversation with Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel, Trump discussed his mental fitness as he shared examples of the types of questions that were included for the test that he took “a little less than a year ago.”
“It was 30 or 35 questions. The first questions are very easy. The last questions are much more difficult. Like a memory question,” Trump recalled. “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.”
He added, “10 minutes, 15, 20 minutes later” in the cognitive exam, “they say, ‘Remember the first question?’ Not the first, but the tenth question. ‘Give us that again. Can you do that again?’ And you go, ‘Person, woman, man, camera, TV.’”
According to the president, doctors were impressed by his cognitive abilities and described his passing of the test as “amazing.”
“They say, ‘That’s amazing, how did you do that?’ I do it because I have, like, a good memory. Because I’m cognitively there,” Trump said.
Trump also went on to challenge presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to take the same test.
See Trump’s remarks below:
Trump’s latest discussion about his cognitive abilities follows previous interviews with Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Chris Wallace where he further elaborated on his results from the test.
“Yes, the first few questions are easy,” Trump admitted. “But I’ll bet you couldn’t even answer the last five questions. I bet you couldn’t. They get very hard, the last five questions.”
However, Wallace noted that polling results show favorably to Biden’s cognitive ability, and the anchor revealed he himself had also taken the test. According to Wallace, one of the test questions called for counting “back from 100 by 7.”
Chris Wallace to Trump on Trump's cognitive test: "Well, it's not the hardest test. It shows a picture and it says, 'what's that'. And it's an elephant." pic.twitter.com/7hnZphc1Rp
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 19, 2020
Shortly after the president’s interview with Wallace, Dr. Ziad Nasreddine, the doctor who created the MoCA test back in 1996, also weighed in.
Like Wallace, he noted that the test is “supposed to be easy for someone who has no cognitive impairment.”
“The purpose is to detect impairment; it’s not meant to determine if someone has extremely high levels of abilities.”
However, Nasreddine also admitted there is reason to be concerned about the possibility of cognitive impairment in both Biden and Trump due to their age.
