“I told the doctor it was Dr. Ronny Jackson. I said, ‘Is there some kind of test, an acuity test?’ Trump recalled Wednesday. “And he said, ‘It actually exists,’ and he named it, whatever it is.”
Then the president elaborated for several minutes.
“It was 30 to 35 questions,” said Trump. “The first questions are very easy. The last questions are much more difficult. Like a memory question. It’s like, you will go: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. So they say, ‘Could you repeat that?’ So I said, ‘Yes. It is: person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.'”
“‘OK so this very well. If you get it to get extra points, ” Trump said, a doctor told him. “Okay, now he’s asking you other questions, other questions, and then, 10 minutes, 15, 20 minutes later they say, ‘Remember that 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,'” Trump said. “If you put it in order, you get extra points.”
“They said no one puts it in order,” said Trump. “It’s not really that easy, but it was easy for me. And that is not an easy question. In other words, they ask you, they give you five names and you have to repeat them. And that is fine. If you repeat them out of order, that’s fine, but, you know, it’s not that good. But when you come back about 20, 25 minutes later and they tell you to go back to that, they don’t tell you this: ‘Go back to that question and repeat them, can you do it?’ And you say: ‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’
“They say, ‘That’s amazing. How did you do that? ‘”Mr. Trump continued. “I do it because I have, like, a good memory, because I’m cognitively there. Now, Joe should take that test, because something is going on. And, and, I say this with respect. I mean, it’s probably going to happen to all of us, right? You know? It will happen “.
Mr. Siegel did not ask follow-up questions.
In an interview broadcast Sunday, when told that Mr. Biden was chosen in a Fox poll as the most mentally sound candidate, Mr. Trump questioned that finding and defended the results of his cognitive tests to Mr. Wallace, who He said he had taken the same proof that the President had boasted of acting. Mr. Wallace noted that one of the questions asked to identify an elephant.
