- In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, President Donald Trump mentioned his results in a cognitive test for the second time this week.
- In the interview, he said that doctors said “very few people” could achieve what he did in the test.
- Her achievement was that she could remember five words in a row, several times, even after asking other questions.
- Evidence has been on Trump’s mind since early June, and he sees it as a potential tool to use against suspected Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, according to The Washington Post.
- Contrary to what Trump seems to think, the test does not indicate a high IQ, or any form of intellectual prowess.
- It is usually a test used to assess someone’s cognitive abilities or to establish whether a person may have dementia.
- Ziad Nasreddine, the neurologist who created the test, told The Washington Post: “If someone performs well, what it means is that the cognitive decline that comes with diseases like Alzheimer’s, stroke, or multiple sclerosis can be ruled out. That’s everything”.
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President Donald Trump again mentioned his performance on a cognitive test, focusing on how he successfully repeated five words in the correct order, multiple times.
In an interview with Fox News Wednesday night, Trump reminded viewers of his performance on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), focusing on one part of the test that he described as “much more difficult” than the rest of the test. , that was “As a memory test”.
Doctors asked him to remember five words in a row, Trump said. As an example, he said: “It is as if you were ‘person, woman, man, camera, television’. So they say: ‘Could you repeat that?’ So I said ‘Yes’. So it’s ‘person, woman, man, camera, television.’ “
They then asked him other questions for about 10 to 15 minutes, before he was asked to repeat the five words in order again, which he said he could do.
“The doctors said that very few people can do that, very few people understand it,” he said.
“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, “he said.
It is the second time this week that Trump mentions the test, that anyone without dementia should easily pass it.
In an interview broadcast Sunday, Chris Wallace of Fox News questioned the difficulty of the test, after taking it himself.
“Well, it is not the most difficult test,” he said. “They have a picture and it says, ‘What is that?’ And it’s an elephant. ”
Trump responded, saying he would bet Wallace was unable to answer the last five questions. He also challenged alleged Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to take the test.
Trump sees the test as a potential tool to use against Biden to establish whether he is fit for office, The Washington Post reported.
Trump has been talking about his success on the test since early June, after worrying about perceptions of his mental and physical health, particularly after the Biden campaign focused on how Trump descended a ramp afterward. of a speech, The Washington Post reported.
But contrary to what Trump might think, the test does not indicate a high IQ or any form of intellectual prowess, The Post reported.
It is a test that is generally used to assess someone’s cognitive abilities or to determine if a person suffers from dementia.
Dr. Ziad Nasreddine, the neurologist who created MoCA, told the Post: “If someone performs well, what it means is that the cognitive decline that comes with diseases like Alzheimer’s, stroke, or multiple sclerosis can be ruled out. That that’s it”.
“It is not intended to measure IQ or IQ in any way,” he said.
Trump also told Fox News that it was former White House doctor Dr. Ronny Jackson who administered the test, but who has not been a Trump doctor for two years and is currently running for Congress in Texas.
According to The Post, although it said it performed the test “very recently,” the White House declined to disclose whether it was referring to a test it conducted with Jackson in 2018, or whether it took it again.
In the last Fox News interview, Trump said he took the test a year ago.
