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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump bragged tonight about passing a cognitive test. It might have been given if he'd had a stroke.
Tweet from Media Matters news director with video of that part of Hannity's show tonight, Trump on the phone to him:
Link to tweet
If this was recent, it was probably the trip to Walter Reed that was never convincingly explained, the one that many suspect was due to Trump having had a stroke.
I read a number of tweets tonight mentioning that the type of cognitive test Trump's bragging that he "aced" to his doctors' surprise was probably what's given to stroke patients.
Quite a few people on Twitter have been pointing out that Trump's doctors being "surprised" -- his word -- that he'd "aced" a simple cognitive test isn't anything to brag about.
But you can hear how thrilled Trump was to be told he'd aced a simple test. And how convinced he is, in his own deluded mind, that Biden couldn't pass such a test.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,601 posts)Maybe a six year old child?
highplainsdem
(49,067 posts)Link to tweet
Cha
(297,890 posts)my post was along those lines.. course Tom Joseph said it better!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,926 posts)a camel from a hippopotamus? If they gave him a cognitive test at Walter Reed, somebody probably thought he was having a stroke or other problem affecting cognition. "Acing" that test doesn't mean you're smart; it only means that you don't seem to have suffered a certain kind of obvious brain damage. And he's probably lying anyhow; when they asked him which drawing was of a camel he probably pointed to the hippopotamus.
PatSeg
(47,691 posts)"The doctors were surprised" like he was some kind of genius. As usual, he is full of shit.
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)What day is it?
What year is it?
Who is the President?
or something equally inane, specially devised for our genius Dear Leader (wink, wink)
Grokenstein
(5,729 posts)The psychotic SOB was carrying on about this back in JUNE!
Link to tweet
"In a White House meeting, Trump unprompted suddenly began waxing on about a cognitive test he took in 2018, boasting about how well hed done, and how hed been able to repeat five words in order. Then, he challenged Biden to take the same test.
It was the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) test. Someone in the replies to this tweet (where you can see the test itself) describes it as mostly a test to make sure that the subject isnt actually a potted plant in disguise. And Tiny Toadstools shrieking about it like it proves beyond all doubt that he is Best At Smart.
niyad
(113,701 posts)Cha
(297,890 posts)TY for that tweet, Grokenstein
niyad
(113,701 posts)performance of a cognitive test, and challenged VP Biden to take one as well.
PCIntern
(25,619 posts)Ive been a clinician for 43 years now and seen between 65 and 80,000 individual patients and nothing surprises me in that sense. Perhaps he is referring to is that they brought him in because he couldnt stream three words together in a sentence due to transient aphasia And he recovered quickly enough to be able to tell them that red and blue are colors and that the first odd numbers are one, three, five, seven.
Or perhaps they never seen a dick that look like a mushroom before. I mean, what the fuck do I know?
FM123
(10,054 posts)Disaffected
(4,572 posts)be surprised that Trump passed any kind of cognitive test. Maybe the docs were too.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,203 posts)a hippopotamus. No medical reason, just to f**k with him.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)He can tell I am cognitive without having to give me a test. If he did give me a test anyhow, he would not be the least bit "surprised," much less "very surprised," to find out I am cognitive.
Most of us can safely say this.
What is Trump's problem that his doctors are "very surprised" if he is cognitive during the part of the time when they tested him?
That is not something to brag about.
Thekaspervote
(32,813 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,920 posts)The novel itself is more serious, as it becomes clear that someone is trying to kill him. Great book. I'd recommend it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Blue Owl
(50,536 posts)Donny is a very special boy.
underpants
(182,970 posts)AleksS
(1,665 posts)When doctors are surprised your IQ test comes up "positive."
captain queeg
(10,274 posts)So I guess trump isnt pathetic because I feel no sadness or sympathy for him.
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)Didnt think he had it in him.
rpannier
(24,345 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)A very good thing indeed!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)"Johnson! Johnson! He CAN read!"
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)test. It doesnt work that way. Were gathering information. Bunker Boy sounds like an immature idiot when he talks like that.
misanthrope
(7,433 posts)with the "I'm the smartest patient in the room" bit.
electric_blue68
(14,978 posts)by or actually in that hospital that day.
It was not a schedualed visit bc there was no kind of security pre-checks that you'd normally see.
tinrobot
(10,927 posts)One leg was kind of dragging. Strokes usually hit one side of the body or another.
rpannier
(24,345 posts)The Doctors at Walter Reed were surprised
The Doctors at the CDC were surprised
The doctor who took his physical was surprised
keithbvadu2
(36,992 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,823 posts)Eyes distant, speech slurred, disjointed rambling, sometimes a drool. It may last a few minutes, maybe hours. Then he would gradually come back to himself. Mostly. Got worse over time.
I wonder if something like this prompted the Walter Reed trip.
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whistler162
(11,155 posts)lowest card or the highest card depending on the game?
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)1) big joker
2) little joker
3) 2 of spades
4) ace of spades
Followed by the rest of the spades in descending order
Cha
(297,890 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)She apparently throws in the usual about the need for proper evaluation to figure out whatever else she believes is been going on with him for most of his life.
It certainly doesn't take a clinician to know he's a mental whackjob, though, which has been extensively documented -- by his craving for attention and legal problems -- over several decades.
Personally, I think we should use him as part of a test for functional ability in citizens.
Jane Austin
(9,199 posts)and I also had to count backwards from 100.
mnmoderatedem
(3,734 posts)after the recent Supreme Court rulings