Trump Makes Bizarre Boast About Beating Top Democrats In Dementia Test | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump was ripped on Monday for boasting about passing a dementia take a look at as he tried to belittle potential Democratic presidential hopefuls.

Ocasio-Cortez is 36, and Crockett is 44.

The transient evaluation screens for indicators of cognitive decline within the aged and stroke sufferers, and units easy duties resembling drawing a clock, figuring out animals and repeating a string of phrases again.

While maintaining the door open to a Constitution-breaching third time period, Trump as soon as once more accused the outstanding Democrats of getting “low IQ” and instructed they need to take the “cognitive tests” he underwent on the Walter Reed Medical Center.

To be clear, the MoCA just isn’t designed as a measure of intelligence or IQ.

“Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump,” Trump mentioned. “The first couple of questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe. When you get up to about five or six, then you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.” (Watch a clip beneath.)

In an announcement in April, the president’s doctor mentioned Trump had taken the MoCA and scored 30 out of 30. A rating of 25 or decrease would sign cognitive impairment.

It’s unclear whether or not Trump really took the take a look at once more throughout a swiftly introduced go to to Walter Reed earlier this month.

On Monday, Trump revealed he had a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) take a look at in the course of the current checkup, which got here amid issues concerning the president’s well being fueled by photos exhibiting bruising on his arms and swelling in his legs.

Trump mentioned the docs instructed him the checkup led to “some of the best reports they’ve ever seen” given his age.

On X, the press workplace of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was amongst many mocking the president for showing smug over his cognitive take a look at success.