Then, “10 minutes, 15, 20 minutes later” on the cognitive test, “they say, ‘Do you 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, television,’ ”Trump said.
The president said that the doctors had warned him that “nobody puts it in order”, he evaluated that “it is not really so easy, but for me it was easy”. Trump also emphasized that the medical professionals administering the test “don’t tell him” that they plan to ask him to repeat the series of words, and said they were impressed that he did.
“‘You can do it?’ And you say, ‘Person, woman, man, camera, television,’ “Trump 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.” .
The president revealed earlier this month to Fox News presenter Sean Hannity that he “recently” had taken a cognitive exam at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, saying he had “passed” it. In an interview last weekend with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” Trump elaborated on the test.
“Yes, the first few questions are easy, but I bet you couldn’t even answer the last five questions. I bet you couldn’t. The last five questions get very difficult, “Trump said. Wallace told the president that he had conducted the exam himself and reported that the various questions asked patients to identify an elephant and count down from 100.
The president did not directly contradict Wallace’s characterization of the examination, only considered that the veteran journalist’s account was “a complete misrepresentation.”
