Trump’s latest remarks are far from the first time he has publicly praised his own cognitive test results.
During a previous Cabinet meeting, the president insisted, “I’m the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it three times. It’s actually a very hard test for a lot of people,” before adding, “It wasn’t hard for me.”
Trump also claimed he answered every question correctly on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a screening tool used to detect cognitive impairment and early signs of Alzheimer’s disease, recalling that a doctor told him, “I’ve never seen anyone get them all right.”
But not everyone was impressed. Jonathan Reiner, who previously served as a cardiologist to Dick Cheney, criticized Trump’s comments on X, writing: “If I were one of the president’s advisers, I would beg him to stop bragging about doing well on a dementia screening tool which requires the patient to identify a camel and subtract 7 from 100.”
In April, Jamie Raskin, a top Democrat in the House Judiciary Committee, officially requested that the president be given a “comprehensive” cognitive test following his wild rants on Truth Socual sparing dementia concerns.