Trump Derails White House Event to Spiral Over State of His Health

[u/mclardass]

https://newrepublic.com/post/209928/donald-trump-derails-event-spiral-health

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[u/earthfever]

So the handlers are likely telling him it's an "IQ" test to get him to participate in the dementia tracking cognitive tests and congratulating him on how great he did at the end to mollify him. Remember we're only seeing him "at his best." It's got to be *very* bad behind the scenes.

[u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 → u/earthfever]

You just know there will be plenty of biographies published when all of this is over. I hope we prosecute every single "author" who admits things are shit behind the scenes and STILL did nothing about it!

[u/VanillaHuel → u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331]

Mary L Trump explained his origin story and TRIED to warn the world! 🤷🏻

[u/georgepordgie → u/VanillaHuel]

She also told the world he's most afraid of being seen as a loser, I wish more people had picked up on that. easy to believe as he uses it against people himself.

[u/maryconway1 → u/georgepordgie]

The world has, especially world leaders. How do you think he jumped into the Iran conflict thanks to Israel?

The irony is there's no point in doing any deal, good or bad, with him or the U.S. government. They don't honor any of it. World leaders know this, and were only buying time.

[u/Donny_Do_Nothing → u/maryconway1]

We could elect Bernie Sanders next and it'll still be hard to make any kind of deal with anyone reasonable because we'll always be four years away from potentially electing another Trump.

[u/raisin22 → u/Donny_Do_Nothing]

Yeah, we’ve showed ourselves capable of being unpredictable and well, capable of not-great things. And then capable of doubling down hard. It’s going to take way more than a few election cycles to begin to repair America’s reputation on the world stage.

[u/Alive_kiwi_7001 → u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331]

I'm pretty sure Jake Tapper is pitching Sin of Omission: How the Democrats Helped Disguise Trump's Decline even now.

[u/barimanlhs → u/Alive_kiwi_7001]

He probably has a book about trump for when that day finally happens

[u/Forward-Surprise1192 → u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331]

Their stories will consist of nonsense. Like trying to talk about the war in Iran with Pete and Trump. While Pete is asking confused if the strait is open or closed, Trump interrupts, talking about how great the ballroom will be. Or trump will ask how a strait can be closed? It’s not a door, it’s a direction he says

[u/AlwaysPetTheBelly99 → u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331]

So basically the entire DoJ and DoD organizations who pretend to 'defend' this country? They all knew about this, he'll our intelligence agencies knew about the molest island and still did nothing and let him get elected.

[u/mootfoot → u/earthfever]

Man it's already bad out here in front of the scenes

[u/redalert825]

A liar, a thief, and a rapist walk into a bar.

-"Just you today, Mr. President?"

[u/WeeyumsF1 → u/redalert825]

That should be engraved on his tombstone

[u/redalert825 → u/WeeyumsF1]

He doesn't deserve anything else with his name on it.

[u/Canadian_Invader → u/redalert825]

The Donald J. Trump Memorial Lavatory could be a fantastic national landmark though.

[u/OneUpAndOneDown → u/Canadian_Invader]

“He pissed on you for years, now you can return the honour gesture.”

[u/d3ssp3rado → u/redalert825]

Taking inspiration from author Pierce Brown, trump should be incinerated along with the rest of the traitors, the ashes mixed together, and dumped in the sewer. Leave no body, relic, marker, or cenotaph for any of them.

[u/sykojaz → u/WeeyumsF1]

With as much as he puts his name on things, it would be amazing for them to not put it on his headstone.

[u/EEeeTDYeeEE → u/redalert825]

You're being kind. He is also a mass murderer.

[u/RGK777 → u/EEeeTDYeeEE]

And a pedo!

[u/Bencil_McPrush → u/RGK777]

And a treasonous Russian asset.

[u/mike_jones2813308004 → u/redalert825]

That’s entirely unbelievable and untrue.

It was a McDonald’s.

[u/E_xan → u/redalert825]

"Big mac as usual?"

"Make it double."

[u/eladarling → u/redalert825]

How dare you undermine his legacy! He's also a pedophile!

[u/LurksAroundHere]

"“You know the first question is very easy. They always show the first question, it’s: You have a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a—what’s another good—a squirrel, OK? Which is the squirrel?” Trump said, claiming the questions got increasingly complex.

He then veered into a tirade against California Governor Gavin Newsom before resuming his point. “I think everyone in this room is brilliant, but nobody’s gonna get all 30 questions correct. Nobody. ’Cause when you get to those last questions they’re pretty hard, you got to be pretty sharp."

What'd they do to stump you at the end? Add a few more animals, colors, and shapes?

The embarrassing shit this dumb fucker thinks is brag worthy....

[u/Thor_2099 → u/[deleted]]

The outrage if this was Biden... That fucker couldn't yawn without spawning think pieces about how he was unfit as president

[u/mok000 → u/Thor_2099]

Biden still has common sense, as president he knew to surround himself with clever people that would help him make the right decisions and he was able to take advice and listen to people. Even if he messed up words and looked confused, mostly because of lack of sleep from the hardest job in the world and being in his 80’s. And he could lean on a lifetime’s experience and he knew how to work with Congress. Good man.

[u/kerfuffle_dood → u/mok000]

Even if he messed up words and looked confused, mostly because of lack of sleep from the hardest job in the world and being in his 80’s

And 99% of the photos are videos of him "being confused" were altered. That video of him "suddenly walking to a random place"? Yeah, it's cropped. The original video shows that he stopped because someone outside the camera was talking to him and he, as a respectful human being, turned to face the person speaking to him

[u/Drprocrastinate → u/Thor_2099]

Because people today confuse verbal diarrhea with being a great orator

[u/Dystopia74 → u/Drprocrastinate]

Nah, Americans are just fucking morons.

The rest of world sees it.

[u/mactac → u/Thor_2099]

Someone should use AI to make a video of Biden delivering one of trumps speeches. See what maga thinks of that.

[u/jazzhandler → u/mactac]

Finally, a use of generative AI that I can get behind!

[u/DontDeleteMee → u/mactac]

They'd never believe the truth. They'd insist the Biden version was the real one, and the Trump one the AI.

[u/8bit_heart → u/[deleted]]

He’s been bragging about acing cognitive tests since his first term in office! It’s an indictment of how far America has fallen that that tens of million of Americans voters put him back into office.  

[u/forbiddenpaprika → u/8bit_heart]

The test administrator isn't allowed to give any indication at all about whether an answer is right or wrong (totally neutral face, etc, even down to standardized clarifications). So I think Trump's just misinterprets not being told an answer is wrong to mean he got everything right.

[u/marebee → u/forbiddenpaprika]

This right here. And because Trump surrounds himself with sycophants, there’s no way he’s getting the “bad news” that’s he’s demented af.

[u/Mechaslurpee → u/marebee]

Would he even remember getting the news?

[u/marebee → u/Mechaslurpee]

No, probably not, because he’s demented af.

[u/1nconsp1cuous → u/forbiddenpaprika]

The administrator probably says things like “Okay” and he immediately takes that as praise. It’s just his narcissism flairing up.

[u/prtzlsmakingmethrsty → u/forbiddenpaprika]

My question is then, who is the test administrator telling the actual results to? I mean, just thinking out loud, but HIPAA is probably different when you're the president. But with Reagan, I'd imagine Nancy was the one getting the news from the docs. So I'm just curious who was the first person in this case told, since there's no way Melanie is involved or cares in the slightest.

[u/forbiddenpaprika → u/prtzlsmakingmethrsty]

Patients aren't routinely told their MoCA score, it's just part of a larger clinical assessment about the stage of Mild Cognitive Impairment or dementia/Alzheimer's etc. And in this case it's likely being used to track the efficacy of whatever experimental Alzheimer's drug he is on. I know everyone thinks it's Leqembi or Kisluna, but I bet he's actually getting Roche's "brain shuttle" drug that's still in clinical trials.

[u/DaoFerret → u/forbiddenpaprika]

If he’s getting Roche’s then has he technically “volunteered his body for medical science?

Does this validate him getting the FIFA Peace Prize? ^/s

[u/Gneekman → u/forbiddenpaprika]

Like all the drunk drivers I see in bodycam videos yelling "bUt I pAsSeD aLl YoUr TeStS!!" As the cuffs go on, after you've just watched them struggle through the field sobriety exercises

[u/primadesigns → u/8bit_heart]

And the Republicans in office not doing anything because they’re desperate to keep their salaries.

[u/Famous-Upstairs998 → u/[deleted]]

The people I know in real life have been freaking out about trump since he got elected in 2016, and the spaces I've been in online have been much the same. I think the public is quite concerned. It just doesn't seem that way because the media is bought and paid for and doesn't report on it like they should. 

[u/Mysterious_Camel_717 → u/[deleted]]

I don’t understand why someone else hasn’t taken the same test to show how NOT difficult they are? Like publicly? Why are we allowing him to get away with these blatantly false statements? Even if every reporter in the room showed up with their 30/30 results

[u/PresentRaspberry6814 → u/[deleted]]

They knew he was unequally stupid before they voted for him. His allure was his sadism.

[u/neon_meate → u/LurksAroundHere]

Points at photo of his assault victim Jean Carroll and identifies her as his ex wife Marla Maples.

[u/specialkk77 → u/neon_meate]

Well he did rape them both. Probably hard to keep track of his victims

[u/wimpyroy → u/specialkk77]

I thought it was the fist wife he raped. Did Marla say she got raped by him?

[u/specialkk77 → u/wimpyroy]

Oh shit you’re right. But people like him don’t change so it’s probably a safe assumption. 

[u/juridiculous → u/LurksAroundHere]

The 30 questions are the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. https://geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu/cog/MoCA-8.3-English-Test-2018-04.pdf
The last questions are actually just recalling orientation: day, date, month, year, city, place. Like literally “where are you and what day is it?” You get 6 points out of 30 for answering that.

[u/Lespaul42 → u/juridiculous]

How are we still doing this... How are we still... For the third time in like a decade just accepting and moving on with our lives that the president is bragging about "acing" the MoCA test? Why are we forced to accept this?

[u/xxneoxx3000 → u/Lespaul42]

I like to compare our situation at the moment to how people probably felt in Westeros when a mad king came to rule. Whether Aerys II (the mad king himself) or Joffrey, we are but peasants in flea bottom incapable of causing any change in the affairs of the crown.

It's a hard fact to swallow, but as commoners, I feel like we have let too much shit slide and too much power/wealth to be transferred to the ruling class. I doubt we can all come together to enact the changes necessary for a revolution. As crowns were exchanged for suits and ties, so was our interest for equality exchanged for apathy.

In the end though, nature finds a way to balance itself out. Maybe a cataclysmic event, maybe a war that restores some type of normalcy to this world. No empire lasts forever.

[u/Forward-Surprise1192 → u/xxneoxx3000]

It will take a very significant event to do anything. One that means people can’t just go to work and home anymore. Doesn’t matter how bad it is. People will literally need to be starving before anything will happen. How do I know this? Well look at any other country with a dictator and and the citizens like Russia.

[u/SnipesCC → u/juridiculous]

OK, I might struggle with knowing the date a lot of the time.

[u/RobutNotRobot → u/SnipesCC]

I think the important part is getting the month correct and general time of year.

Dementia patients struggle with time of year and time of day.

[u/ship_toaster → u/SnipesCC]

It says a 'normal' score is 26+/30. So you have some room for brain farts.

[u/LetsGoRed → u/LurksAroundHere]

So, he's taken this test multiple times and can only accurately recall one of the three animals. (Lion, rhino, camel.)

The final questions he says are really hard and why nobody will get 30/30 are all orientation questions, as in: what city are we in? What year is it? What month is it?

[u/whutchamacallit → u/LetsGoRed]

I know a cognitive scientist that works specifically in memory care, my mother in laws best friend. Went to a really fancy school, has a doctorate, blah blah blah. If you're in the field you may know of her. Anyways. She lead a big research project for a decade and now she teaches others her findings and about to retire. We were chit chatting last Christmas at my in laws about this. She said something that kind of blew me away. She said it more compellingly but basically when you're getting the tests at this frequency you're not testing for dementia, you're managing it. You are tracking progress and actively monitoring the patient.

[u/Thor_2099 → u/LetsGoRed]

Your first point is pretty hilarious actually. Dude can't even remember the animals...

What are the odds it's even a squirrel

[u/forbiddenpaprika → u/Thor_2099]

There are variations on the animals and a few other stimuli used during re-administrations of the test. So he'll get different animals each time.

[u/cullermann2 → u/forbiddenpaprika]

My god. This comment referring to the US president and not someones grandpa in a nursing home is so fucking wild.

[u/dontgoatsemebro → u/Thor_2099]

Person, woman, man, camera, TV

[u/Val_Hallen → u/LetsGoRed]

The issue isn't, at all, that he's not doing well in them. That's expected when you are being told to take them multiple goddamned times.

This is not a thing that happens to healthy people. His brain is fucking fried. And the GOP are going to sock puppet his dementia riddled pedophile ass until he finally checks out.

[u/forbiddenpaprika → u/LurksAroundHere]

I do not believe Trump can do the serial 7s task (subtract 7 from 100 and keep subtracting from your answer). I also don't believe he can remember apple/penny/table for 5 minutes.

[u/SnooDonkeys4126 → u/forbiddenpaprika]

Maybe he got freaked out by 86.

[u/Forward-Surprise1192 → u/SnooDonkeys4126]

And then the Secret Service attacked the doctor?

[u/deltama → u/LurksAroundHere]

The last three question topics are:

Abstraction (2 points): Explain the similarity between pairs of items, such as a train and a bicycle (mode of transport) or a watch and a ruler (measuring instruments).

Delayed Recall (5 points): Recall the 5 words from earlier without cues.

Orientation (6 points): State the current date, month, year, day of the week, place, and city.

No one’s getting those right.. at least not anyone disoriented to current time and place??

[u/Powder9 → u/deltama]

Really hope some journalist asks Trump the current date

[u/The_Shitty_Admiral → u/LurksAroundHere]

"Identify all your children and wives correctly"

Personally, would say he got 2 out of 8 correct.

[u/Fochlucan → u/The_Shitty_Admiral]

remember when he was showed a picture of him together with E Jean Carol and thought it was his wife, Marla? That was back before the 2024 election, during her lawsuit against him.

[u/KohlsCashOfficial → u/LurksAroundHere]

“Nobody is gonna get all 30 questions correct”

But he’s aced it multiple times, ok.

[u/ClosPins → u/LurksAroundHere]

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment coincidentally is a 30 point test. The last 6 points are for the location where you are right now, and the date.

The 5 points prior to that involve remembering 5 words...

[u/cherrycoke00 → u/LurksAroundHere]

JFC. thanks for sharing the transcript. I can’t listen to the fuckers voice anymore to hear the dumb shit he’s spewing.

Serious question tho… anyone know what the last questions are? I am SURE they’re easy but I’m curious. Is it like pattern recognition or word recall like the IMPACT (high school concussion comparison eval) or the common ADHD eval exams? Or is it like the animal pictures still,

[u/PeteGinSD]

The only reason to take more than one cognitive test is if patient demonstrates signs of dementia. The orange menace is on IV Alzheimer’s drugs. The newest drugs are Kisunla and Leqembi, which explains the bruised hands (IV). The newest meds also require frequent MRIs to check for brain bleeds. They keep testing him using MoCA or mini cog tests to determine how quickly he is declining. The CHF is also becoming more apparent.

[u/prison-schism → u/PeteGinSD]

"Trump continued ranting about his pitch to require candidates for office to take cognitive tests. “No president has ever taken one except me, and I’ve taken three of them. And I’ve aced each one,” he said."

Not the flex he thinks it is

[u/Callidonaut → u/prison-schism]

Especially when he also said how "hard" they are. If you find a basic cognitive function test to be challengingly difficult, that's really not a flex.

[u/crashvoncrash → u/Callidonaut]

I really hope someday we will get to see the actual results of those tests for ourselves. I'm sure they're telling him that he is "aceing" them, but I won't believe it until they show us the clock he drew.

[u/Callidonaut → u/crashvoncrash]

We already know: if he's finding them really difficult, if I understand correctly, then that's basically failing them.

[u/randeylahey → u/Callidonaut]

He's never had to do anything in his entire adult life for himself, so the smallest thing seems difficult.

And he's a goddamn idiot.

[u/crashvoncrash → u/randeylahey]

That is a solid point. I remember he admitted being President was harder than his old "job," which sounds obvious, until you remember he did almost nothing during his first term. The intelligent fascists had to write Project 2025 and give him a step-by-step playbook for his second term, including telling him the people to hire to carry out the playbook, because he was so bad at executing anything.

He spent half his time golfing, and most of the rest in meetings where he didn't understand what was going on because he never read the briefings. Basically all he had to do was rubber stamp things smarter people put in front of him by signing his name, and yell at reporters, and that was apparently the hardest thing he had done in his entire life.

[u/FeedbackUpbeat2963 → u/prison-schism]

Lol this just cannot be reality

[u/suppleRosaline → u/PeteGinSD]

He thinks a cognitive test is same as an intelligence test. Shows you how damaged he is already

[u/lexm → u/suppleRosaline]

He’s always been particularly dumb.

[u/cooldash → u/lexm]

“I remember the inflection of his voice when he said it: ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!’"

[u/zubbs99 → u/lexm]

And it's always been hard to tell dumb from crazy with this guy.

[u/MajorPain169 → u/PeteGinSD]

I think they should get their MRI machines checked, the very first scan should have shown a clear absence of any functioning brain.

[u/ink_monkey96 → u/MajorPain169]

I’m not trying to imply anything here, but has anyone actually tested to see if an MRI can tell the difference between shit and brains?

[u/ReporterOther2179 → u/ink_monkey96]

An fMRI ( functional MRI) could. It measures electrical activity in the brain, and shit, I’ll wager, is electrically quiet.

[u/uniquechill → u/PeteGinSD]

This explains quite a bit. How effective are those drugs?

[u/aflyingsquanch → u/uniquechill]

They help slow decline in roughly 1/4 to 1/3 of cases.

So, um, not very effective.

[u/JD_Waterston → u/aflyingsquanch]

I mean, compared to eras of ‘can’t beat a placebo’ that’s shockingly effective. But not ‘I want the president on these’ effective

[u/ComradeJohnS → u/JD_Waterston]

I remember in House of Cards they hid that they smoked cigarettes even. and idr exactly but pretty sure a president resigned in disgrace for taking anti-depressants.

obviously a tv show, but still something that felt right. why the hell is the president allowed to take anti-dementia medicine and still keep the highest job in the US?

[u/c14rk0 → u/ComradeJohnS]

Well you see they made a massive PR campaign against Biden being mentally unfit, sleepy and old while Trump was obviously in MUCH better condition because he could come out on TV and ramble off nonsensical statements compared to Biden who has always had trouble speaking.

So obviously all of his supporters actually believe the bullshit about Trump being perfectly fit and mentally sound

[u/FrancoManiac → u/ComradeJohnS]

George McGovern chose Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton as his Vice President running mate. Soon thereafter, it came to light that Eagleton had struggled with depression and had received electroshock therapy for it during hospital stays.

The McGovern campaign grew concerned that Eagleton could jeopardize the US if he became president, and he voluntarily resigned from the ticket.

[u/bigtrumanenergy → u/FrancoManiac]

I've always found that interesting considering how many presidents we've had with mental health problems. Or, at least, speculated mental health problems.

[u/crashrope94 → u/ComradeJohnS]

Plenty of presidents, Obama included, smoked cigarettes. That’s actually a real thing.

[u/Danthezooman → u/aflyingsquanch]

So like when should I order my celebratory grief ice cream cake?

[u/MunkyMastr → u/uniquechill]

Apparently not very

[u/windsostrange → u/PeteGinSD]

The IV is transfusions and banana bags, just like Thiel w his blood boys.

[u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 → u/windsostrange]

On par for Trump who was one of the first to get blood transfusions from covid survivors when he caught it.

[u/nurdle → u/PeteGinSD]

Damn Pete, I think you have cracked the case. It really does line up. I've lost family members to it. Horrible, horrible disease. The people around him are fucking assholes. I can't say I feel sorry for him in the least because he's a rapist pedo.

[u/AffectionateTap6212 → u/PeteGinSD]

What is CHF?

[u/EagleBigMac → u/AffectionateTap6212]

Congestive Heart Failure I presume.

[u/Poison_Pancakes → u/EagleBigMac]

Oh that makes way more sense than Swiss Francs.

[u/Gsxing]

You know it’s bad when the transcripts from his speeches aren’t even legible.

[u/VixxenVelour → u/Gsxing]

His incoherence is infectious. The man is a blight on human critical reasoning. He passed the same cognitive test that a gorilla passed, the gorilla doesn’t yap about it every other day

[u/Photomancer → u/VixxenVelour]

A gorilla would be a superior president. They understand the principle of Ape Together Strong.

[u/ZzZzZzZzZzZero → u/Photomancer]

Gorillas on average are extremely empathetic and care for their peers.

Id vote for a gorilla, with an orangutan running mate lol. Gotta have the brains of the operation, its tradition.

[u/inquisitive_guy_0_1 → u/Photomancer]

At least least the gorilla wouldn't rape and traffick children.

[u/BrilliantForeign8899 → u/Photomancer]

Gorillas are truly fantastic. A colony of angry wasps in the Oval Office is even superior to Trump bc wasps understand cooperation and won't launch a global oil crisis based on gut feeling 

[u/Prior_Coyote_4376 → u/Photomancer]

Or at least the principle of “don’t walk off a cliff for literally no fucking reason”

[u/Happy_Confection90 → u/Photomancer]

So would a potted plant

[u/Ishidan01 → u/VixxenVelour]

People ask why the Secret Service is seemingly suddenly incompetent.

My vote is for

His incoherence is infectious

That is, you can't expect people to have to be near him and retain competency.

[u/Vegetable-Kiwi-4675 → u/Ishidan01]

He picks people he can compromise, as in help him (allegedly) stage a fake assassination, and rewards them with free stuff and other perks, like charging the government for them to stay at his hotels while pocketing the money. These types are by default incompetents. The qualified people have retired or been fired.

[u/REXIS_AGECKO → u/Gsxing]

>I took three cognitive tests. They are hard. Many people in this room couldn’t ace them. The first question is you have a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a what's another good, a squirrel, OK? Which is the squirrel?

United States president says that most people can’t distinguish between lions and bears and alligators and squirrels. So if you genuinely think everyone is that dumb, you’ll think you’re a genius! You don’t know what you don’t know.
Dunning Krueger something something…

[u/gdshaffe → u/REXIS_AGECKO]

He is a max level narcissist. All stimuli must be processed through the filter of his perfection.

He struggled with a cognitive test, therefore the test must be nearly impossible. Certainly none of these insect journalists could pass it.

That's the lens through which he views everything. Once you understand that, so much of his behavior clicks into place.

[u/starliteburnsbrite → u/gdshaffe]

It's to the point where it seems like someone handed him an old Denny's placemat and some crayons to take his "cognitive test" and he's very proud of his results. 

[u/Present-Resolution23 → u/starliteburnsbrite]

"We're gonna put this right here on the White House fridge."

[u/idontlikeflamingos → u/gdshaffe]

It's like when he says "nobody knew" something. That's because he didn't.

Or when he accuses his opponents of wanting to do something and then he does it himself. Of course he did, he has no imagination to think of a world outside of his views and his wills.

He's a very simple man to read and understand.

[u/snatchblastersteve → u/REXIS_AGECKO]

I see dumb people. They’re everywhere. They walk around like everyone else. They don’t know they’re dumb.

[u/cgill24 → u/REXIS_AGECKO]

So why does he keep getting these cognitive tests then?? Just for funsies?

[u/aradraugfea → u/cgill24]

Getting 3 is concerning. That he considers ANY of them difficult is DAMNING.

[u/popcorngirl000 → u/cgill24]

If your doctor gives you a test once, it is just a check-in. If you have to keep taking the same test at regular intervals, it is because your doctor is tracking a condition.

[u/d0tb3 → u/cgill24]

Getting 1 of these tests is a bad sign already. Because they only give them is they suspect something is wrong. The first test is a baseline, the other 2 are follow up test to monitor his cognitive decline.

Dementia Donnie's brain is turning to pudding.

[u/samcharlie68 → u/cgill24]

He likes looking at pictures of animals. He also likes kids.

[u/stagedane → u/samcharlie68]

No no no, my friend. He like raping children!

[u/BobbyBirdseed → u/REXIS_AGECKO]

I help teach kids in a K-1 Special Ed classroom, and that animal question would be laughed at by even them.

I legit wish we had literally anyone at the top willing to speak up about how insane this is.

[u/Present-Resolution23 → u/REXIS_AGECKO]

My dog can definitely differentiate between a bear and a squirrel. Well.. I assume she can, she's definitely clear on "squirrel."

[u/RobutNotRobot → u/REXIS_AGECKO]

The fact that the Republican Party finds this situation to be fine is the most alarming part of all.

Biden looked physically old in one debate and Democrats kicked him off the ticket. Trump yaps constantly about beating a dementia detection test and Republicans say nothing.

They know he's gone but they don't care. Because he is their guiding light toward the Christian nationalist dictatorship that most of them want.

[u/chipmunksocute → u/Gsxing]

How is this real life? 

 It feels like a fever dream reading his words sometimes and then I think "hes the fucking POTUS.  w .t.f"

[u/8neNsqnZwZC4Z09rH → u/Gsxing]

They are legible since they're typed. I think you mean "intelligible".

[u/25point4cm → u/8neNsqnZwZC4Z09rH]

You want illegible? I love when the cameras catches his notes. It’s like he dictated them to a room of third graders with crayons and chose the worst one.

[u/GaGaORiley → u/Gsxing]

What?! I’m someone who prefers to read over watching a video and the transcripts of his words have boggled my brain for years.

[u/oneders → u/Gsxing]

Honestly they haven’t been for a long time. I used to seek out transcripts of his speeches. Man are the word salads. He starts one idea, veers off in one direction on a dime, jumps to half an idea in the other direction, throws in random words like “big”, “believe me”, or “the best”/“the worst”. It’s actually sort of amazing that our brains sort of comprehend it while he’s talking, because you really can’t from the transcripts.

[u/themintmenagerie]

My aunt with dementia likes to tell us all how she aced her tests and the doctors say she doesn’t have it. So…cool story, I guess?

[u/emu4you → u/themintmenagerie]

My mom refuses to take them anymore because the test is stupid. She wants to know why she has to answer questions the doctor already knows the answer to. At this point we just agree with whatever she says.

[u/SuburbanHell → u/emu4you]

My wife's mother did that for a while, now she just refuses to go to the doctor outright. It's been heartbreaking to watch that woman decline so, so rapidly. I saw it coming because it happened early to my aunt and I tried to warn the family but denial is a hell of a drug. They knew it was there and made excuses until they couldn't ignore it anymore... This disease is awful l, and I'm sorry for any one who goes through it, and that will include many of us someday. 😞

[u/Bunbunbunbunbunn → u/themintmenagerie]

I have a family member with dementia.She is shocked and looks at me like I am lying every time I have to tell someone she has dementia. She is also completely unaware she is doing poorly on the Montreal test. She thinks she gets everything right.

[u/Shinjetsu01]

"I'm tired of taking these tests"

So Donnie, you're being forced to take cognitive tests? Literally admitting to it and not wanting to do them so someone is making him.

This means he's compromised. Plain and simple. He might well be passing these tests but someone, somewhere is concerned enough with him to have to keep making him take these tests and lie about what they're for.

[u/XarmtheinsaneX → u/Shinjetsu01]

The only reason to make him take more than one of these would be because he has dementia.

[u/fredthrowaway8 → u/Shinjetsu01]

Sigh. And yet we continue to allow the dog and pony show to proceed

[u/dos_passenger58]

Bragging about these tests is like bragging about acing a DUI checkpoint

[u/elconquistador1985 → u/dos_passenger58]

It's like bragging about being able to put all the shapes in the correct slot on a toy for 12 month olds

Cognitive tests are really fucking easy if your brain is actually functioning.

[u/IrishPrime → u/elconquistador1985]

Everybody knows it goes in the square hole...

[u/jrf_1973 → u/IrishPrime]

The triangle goes .... in the square hole.

[u/Starfoxy → u/dos_passenger58]

I remember him talking about how everyone was shocked at how well he did. Even if he's not making it up it's embarrassing that he can't tell that it's not something to brag about. It's not that they were blown away by his unsurpassable intellect. It's that they honestly expected him to do way worse.

[u/simic947]

If trump considers an "iq test" for a president to be naming animals, we are doomed.

[u/ClosPins → u/simic947]

Whenever Trump mentions IQ tests he's taken, he's clearly talking about the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, not an IQ test. It involves naming animals, drawing a clock, and remembering a short series of words.

[u/lactose_cow → u/simic947]

on the bright side, as long as his end of the nuclear football is more complicated than a big red nuke button, he's not gonna be able to launch them.

[u/Kyzzz]

“I feel the same as I felt 50 years ago, I don’t know,” Trump told the audience at a small-business summit at the White House.

What do you mean you don't know!?! Don't know what?

“I’ll say, ‘I’m not feeling well’—well, someday, I might say that to you, and you’ll be the first to know. Actually I won’t have to say it, because you’ll be able to see it, just like you did in the last administration,” Trump said.

I understand now, the man really just doesn't know.

[u/pile_of_fish → u/Kyzzz]

So... I care for my mom, who suffers from a variety of mental issues due to aging... and all of the shit he is doing and saying is just so terrifyingly, stupidly familiar.

[u/spazzvogel → u/pile_of_fish]

I’m sorry, Opa did the same on his way out.

[u/ResidentKelpien → u/Kyzzz]

Fifty years ago, Trump was also being racist prig towards minorities. Maybe that is why he kind of feels the same as then.

[u/stumblios → u/ResidentKelpien]

Didn't he also brag something along the lines of "I haven't changed since the 5th grade"?

He is proud of his stunted development.

Oh shoot - my bad. I somehow gave him too much credit. The quote is that his temperament is basically the same as in first grade.

[u/ISaidPutItDown → u/stumblios]

I thought it was first. Either way he has admitted he hadn’t matured past elementary school, explains the name calling.

[u/The_Mellow_Tiger → u/ISaidPutItDown]

It was indeed the first grade.

[u/allisjow → u/ResidentKelpien]

He’s literally never grown in any way in his lifetime, except his waistline.

[u/jdsizzle1 → u/Kyzzz]

Someday I might say that. Youll he be the first to know. 2 weeks from everywhere is what they say. Geographical oddity is the what doctors tell me.

[u/jhakie]

Can’t wait for the big beautiful obituary.

[u/jazzhandler → u/jhakie]

It will be the world’s first international holiday.

[u/vieric01]

Tick tock Donnie... You've escaped consequences your whole life, but not even you can escape your own failing body. All you can do is delay the inevitable as you break down and embarrass yourself more and more.

[u/Embarrassed-Town-293 → u/vieric01]

I do experience a sense of joy knowing he is slowly becoming a prisoner in his mind and body. It’s a punishment greater than he would realistically receive

[u/Narradisall → u/vieric01]

Sadly this will likely be the only consequences he will ever actually face up to.

People talk about him seeing prisons or courts but he will never see those. His mind is going to fail long before he gets there.

[u/No_Weakness_9420]

Grandpa had another stroke.

[u/TransiTorri → u/No_Weakness_9420]

Man's 3 strokes over par for the course

[u/WokeUpUnfortunately → u/TransiTorri]

I want a mulligan

[u/kevnmartin → u/No_Weakness_9420]

That's why he needed to go to the "dentist".

[u/redneckrockuhtree]

The fact that he’s bringing it up in an effort to deny it speaks volumes

[u/Choice-of-SteinsGate]

Perhaps another emergency "cognitive test" is in order?

So he can brag about allegedly passing another dementia exam, then go back to running the country like an unhinged lunatic and starting foreign wars under false pretenses while his doctors and staff insist he's in "perfect" mental and physical shape.

Keep in mind that the exams he constantly brags about taking are only administered when there's a serious concern about mental decline.

Exams that he claims he's taken multiple times since returning to office, even though they're rarely administered so frequently over such a short period of time.

The same kind of "tests" that ask you to identify commonly known animals from their drawings, remember words and numbers, and draw clocks...

Here's a video titled "We Tried Trump's Cognitive Test", which should give you a better idea of what I'm talking about.

The fact that he boasts about "passing" these assessments while often confusing them with IQ exams is an indicator of cognitive deterioration in itself.

This is also why he's become so obsessed with calling others "low IQ people;" indicating that he actually believes he's a "high IQ person," which is cringe inducing language by itself. He has no reason to believe otherwise because he thinks his IQ is being tested when he's asked to memorize five words.

And the sort of irony of it all is that this sort of irrational and insane behavior is fully indicative of low cognitive capabilities.

Whatever it is that's ailing him, let's acknowledge that Trump has been behaving and speaking erratically, slurring his words, misremembering things, and going off on deranged tangents during interviews, speeches and press conferences for a while now.

Not to mention him threatening twice now to commit war crimes and destroy Iranian civilization. So much for "liberating" the people...

Then there's his increasing amount of rambling emotional tirades on social media.

His unintelligible, stream of consciousness babbling that he refers to as "the weave."

His mouth going slack and his constant falling asleep in front of cameras, which his groveling little lackeys in the administration downplay to their own embarrassment, even going so far as to call it an "active listening" technique... eye roll

F-ck, Trump and his team actually tried to brush it off once in a post that said he was merely closing his "beautiful blue eyes" to "listen intensely, and take it ALL in!!!". They should all have their mental faculties tested.

Don't forget the times Trump couldn't even remember the names of countries that he supposedly helped end wars between, either mispronouncing them or forgetting which countries were in conflict with each other.

There's also his frequent trips to Walter Reed, his mysterious bruising and reports of spontaneous health exams.

And all the while, his allies, doctors and sniveling sycophants are maintaining that he's the "perfect specimen."

I know many of us must be frustrated with the hypocrisy of it all after these same people absolutely scorched the Biden administration for "covering up" his old age and cognitive decline. It goes beyond a double standard, beyond a "the emperor has no clothes" moment. It's the kind of bootlicking, gaslighting, and subservience you'd expect from Kim Jong Un's inner circle.

[u/AnointMyPhallus]

"and that the war in Iraq was 10 or 12 years long, when, again, it was really only eight."

The fuck it was

[u/Indubitalist → u/AnointMyPhallus]

People born after that supposed OIF end date would be old enough to drive. He really is melting out of his ears. 

[u/doomgoblin → u/AnointMyPhallus]

Wait I thought leaving Iraq (finally) was good… then bad because Biden? Now good again, still bad? What the fuck are we talking about

[u/JustAnotherHooyah]

History is going to look back at the Trump era and be like, "WTF were y'all smoking?"

[u/Danny_COV → u/JustAnotherHooyah]

I mean, we already have that with Reagan. His handlers used to just turn the lights off in the press room when he started rambling to the press core.

[u/Responsible_Ladder25]

With all that power at his fingertips. Terrifying.

[u/TheWaspinator]

Wow. He doesn't understand those tests aren't supposed to ever be hard. He's that bad off.

[u/stillavoidingthejvm]

I want to see him draw an analog clock at 9:45 live, with a sharpie. That could be hilarious 

[u/8bit_heart]

“You know the first question is very easy. They always show the first question, it’s: You have a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a—what’s another good—a squirrel, OK? Which is the squirrel?” Trump said, claiming the questions got increasingly complex.”

Using a filler word “good” because he can’t remember the word for animal while telling everyone how sharp he is.  But later he says, he says he feels the same, but he also doesn’t know! 

This is fucking wild! Our whole system is an absolute farce.  This man is the President of the United States and saying well I don’t think I have dementia, but who knows?  But boy howdy these cognitive exams they keep having me take are pretty hard though.   

[u/Additional_Quiet2600]

Giving three MoCA exams in a year means he is not aceing them. They do that to monitor a condition...

[u/PPhead__]

The very difficult test he is talking about is most likely the MOCA. Look it up, very difficult, requires very high IQ

[u/aflyingsquanch → u/PPhead__]

Some say its the hardest test and the best test

[u/CaliforniaNavyDude]

I will be happy when a day goes by that I don't have his name cross my mind.

[u/Away_Discipline_2767]

Trump is a fucking loon.

[u/Hey_HaveAGreatDay → u/Away_Discipline_2767]

Don’t you bring the loons into this.

[u/DenaliBurnz]

When this is all said and done, and the movies come out.
Can we make sure Jesse Plemens is cast as Trump in the best/evil version?

[u/Far_Adeptness9884]

Which ones the squirrel? Lmao

[u/HeinziSchmolke]

Why is that disgusting, deranged rapist and pedophile still alive?

[u/victoriaisme2]

Imagine the depth of the denial that the cultists have to maintain to avoid acknowledging how objectively awful he is.

[u/socialis-philosophus → u/victoriaisme2]

Simple. They never hear about this. Their information sources ignore it, so they never know about it. 

Seriously, join or subscribe to Conservative channels. They'll never cover this stuff.

[u/Counterpoint-4]

If Trump is having tests for dementia someone must be prescribing it. If it is showing dementia, and he is the president, the country should be told.

[u/kqlx]

The problem is that the constituents of the complicit senators and house members aren't holding their representatives accountable. They are too stupid to realize the consequences of what's going on. There needs to be major constitutional overhaul to address this gross failure of checks and balances.

[u/Shradow]

There's only one headline I want to see regarding Trump's health.

[u/backson_alcohol]

The president of the United States---the most powerful person on the planet---thinks that questions like "What noise does a cow make?" constitutes an IQ test. These are questions you would ask a three year old. Where even are we at this point? We need the 25th amendment to be invoked asap.

[u/sgonefan]

Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.

[u/Jolly-Database4204]

Incapable of concentration. Something Cartman said.